The popular bird died on Friday at the age of 24, having spent half of his life making visitors to the garden centre smile, laugh and talk back to him.

He had been given to the business by an elderly couple in 2002 because they could no longer look after him.

Eloise Keverne, the head of pets and aquatics at the centre, described the garden centre as Charlie’s ‘retirement home’ and said she had been sad to say goodbye to him.

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