A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book. Other spookily compelling taxidermy images show a bird's funeral complete with casket, a kitten's wedding and a well-dressed stuffed monkey riding a goat. The stuffed curios were all created by Victorian Englishman Walter Potter, who originally displayed his strange taxidermy creatures to the awe-struck paying public from The White Lion Pub which doubled as his museum in Bramber, Sussex. Brought up in Bramber from 1835 and dying in 1918, Potter's museum continued to entertain until 1970, when it passed to the Jamaica Inn of Brighton. In 2003 the surviving collection was auctioned for half-a-million pounds to various buyers from across the world.
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
LOCATIONS bursting with vibrant greens and chestnut browns, these photographs capture the peaceful English countryside in all its glory .