A heartwarming video has emerged of a cyclist pausing during a bike ride to help a sheep waving her legs in the air.

The footage, shot with a helmet-mounted camera on Saturday in Morecambe, UK, shows the man jumping over a fence to turn the sheep over.

"I have seen this before and a farmer told me that with a full fleece they can get blown over on a windy day and can't stand up," the filmer wrote online.

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