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.
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .
These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
A dog whose forehead skin was so heavy that he was going blind has finally seen his owner again after undergoing a £1K FACELIFT .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .