What happened to Bruno

An update on Bruno the bear who was shot in Germany yesterday:

After initially giving the go ahead to shoot the bear dead, Bavarian authorities were later persuaded by Italian environment ministry envoys to take a different approach .

The objective now is to shoot the bear with a dart that will send it to sleep, so it can be transported back to Italy.

Once again, I've not been able to establish what made the German authorities revert back to their decision to shoot Bruno dead, but the Italian animal protection association ENPA said the Bavarian authorities "acted in the worst possible way".

Perhaps, but clearly Bruno was the Italian authorities' problem and it doesn't seem to me that they offered much assistance to their German counterparts. Meanwhile, the head of the Austrian Hoteliers Association described Bruno's death as a "disaster".

"He was the best free advertising we have had for years."