Ey up m'duck – like a room for the night?

A hotel has welcomed a group of unexpected Easter holiday guests – a duck and her 10 baby ducklings.

The happy family has made its home in a hanging basket outside the Castle Hotel, in Main Street, Kirby Muxloe.

The first staff knew of the new arrivals was when one of the ducklings fell out of the nest.

Hotel manager Kate Whitehead, 39, said: "The mother duck has been sitting in one of our hanging flower baskets at the side of the hotel, on and off, for the last few days, but we didn't think anything of it.

"Then, yesterday morning, we heard a loud quacking noise outside and went out to find this little duckling waddling around on the floor.

"It was so cute. We helped it back into the nest and that's when we noticed the others."

Sammy Preston, 20, the hotel's events co-ordinator, said: "He was unharmed and must have fallen out again as I found him wandering around in reception.

"I thought he may have been rejected and mistook me for his mother. He was so cute and I wanted to look after him.

"Fortunately, it seems he is actually his mum's favourite as by the afternoon he was swimming around after her in the pond while the others stayed in the nest. We've called him Harry and her Jemima."

Mrs Whitehead said the ducklings had been a huge hit with guests. "The ducklings have been the centre of attention, especially with children," she said. "Everyone has been fussing and cooing over them."

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