Armed officers and a police helicopter were scrambled to help find a tiger on the loose in the Kent countryside - only to find out the beast was a life-size sculpture made by a local sculptor.
Juliet Simpson, 85, who made the sculpture out of resign and chicken wire some 20 years ago, was alerted by a neighbour who told her that armed officers were walking towards her home in Ightham, near Sevenoaks in Kent.
Laughing the siege off, she told KentOnline: "I had heard the helicopter overhead earlier. I walked up the lane to the policemen coming across the field and I said 'do you want to be introduced to the wild tiger?'”
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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