Has the UK storm sent sent a wayward PENGUIN onto a Cornwall beach?

Chantelle Smith, 25, was walking along Polkerris Beach in western Cornwall when she spotted a short black and white bird.

The weather in Britain is one for the record books - but have the ferocious waves brought a penguin to our shores?

Chantelle Smith, 25, was walking along Polkerris Beach in western Cornwall when she spotted a short black and white bird.Is this black and white bird a penguin? (SWNS)

Stunned, she managed to whip out her phone in order to snap the weary traveller waddling along the sands. 

Chantelle, of St Blazey in Cornwall, said she believes the creature was a penguin - which are normally found 10,000 miles away in Antarctica.

She said: "I was with a friend walking over to the harbour and I saw it run past.

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