A Romanian ballet buff has reported the national ballet to trading standards officers - because they didn't have enough swans in a performance of Swan Lake.

Florin Balcescu claims original notes for the Tchaikovsky work show there should be 24 swans on stage but he counted just 16.

Now trading standards officers are investigating the complaint into the Romanian National Opera house in Bucharest.

Balcescu, 48, said: "I thought I had just miscounted at first but then I realised they were eight swans short. I couldn't believe it."

A spokesman for the Consumer Protection Office in Romania said: "We are obliged to respond to any complaint we receive and will be doing so in this case as well."

So this who the phrase "get a life" was written for!

Ever the trooper, Bjork stepped in...

The original was here.