Seal has plastic ring removed from its neck after six years of tracking

After the ring was snipped off with bolt cutters, the wound was cleaned and he was deemed fit to be released

Conservationists move in to capture Commuter before removing the plastic ring (Andy Rogers/Seal Research Trust/PA)

Conservationists have successfully removed a plastic ring from the neck of a seal which they had been tracking for more than six years.

The adult, male grey seal, named Commuter, was spotted off the north coast of Cornwall by conservationist Andy Rogers, a member of the Seal Research Trust, who alerted British Divers Marine Life Rescue.