STAFF at a residential home for the elderly have got themselves into a right pickle...over a parrot.

The Daily Express reports that an African Grey called Rebel has learned how to mimic the alarms used by the residents to summon help.

The bird belongs to one of the residents, Roy Hagley, at Brooke House in Brooke, near Norwich.

Apparently there have already been a string of false alarms at the 35-resident home.