An adventurous young budgie in Iqaluit is safely back home after deciding to spread his wings on Christmas Day and spending a week outdoors in Arctic temperatures.

The new budgerigars have been making themselves at home in the school's aviary Pupils left heartbroken when thieves broke in and stole their budgies have welcomed a new flock to their school.

The budgie — named Blue — survived overnight ... A woman in Iqaluit's Tundra Ridge neighbourhood discovered the bird on New Year's Day while taking her dog out for a walk.

After leaving leaving Budgie in 1974 having grown disillusioned, he set up new band Tredegar in 1982 but lost £40,000 he ploughed in for recordings and promotions. "It was a dream of mine and a ...