This is the moment a seal was released back into the wild - after being found entangled in netting and nursed back to health.

Volunteers for charity Friends of Horsey Seals found the helpless sea mammal on a beach in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on April 8.

They rescued the seal, who they later named Esmeralda, and brought her to the RSPCA's East Winch Wildlife Centre near King's Lynn.

There, staff spent "hundreds of hours" caring for her and nursing her back to health - before she was finally released back into the North Sea last week (26/05).