Chicken thief's arrest ordered

A judge has today ordered the arrest of a Romanian man whose extradition is being sought for stealing a number of chickens and a bicycle in his native country more than a decade ago after he failed to turn up for court.

The Romanian authorities are seeking the surrender of Valentin Stan (30) to serve a three and a half year prison sentence over the theft of the bicycle and chickens in March 1998, when he was 18 years old. The authorities said at least two chickens were consumed.