Daily Mail:

Dressed in wedding gowns and bikinis – their eyes fixed, jaws stiffened and bodies frozen in time – you might be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled on to a taxidermist fancy dress convention.

However, these furry corpses formed part of a display at a school in New Zealand which held a bizarre best-dressed dead possum competition as part of a fundraising day.

Children let their imaginations run wild when they dressed the dead animals in all their finery for the contest at Uruti School on New Zealand’s North Island…

Daily Post:

It had to be rescued from the top of a row of outbuildings behind a block of flats in Valley Road, Colwyn Bay.

RSPCA inspector Mike Pugh was called to the scene after a nearby resident spotted the troubled trotter.

It is believed the animal escaped from a nearby field and panicked, ending up on the buildings…

RSPCA:

Twelve baby bats suffering from overheating have been rescued after they crawled out of a loft during the recent surge in temperatures.
The tiny pipistrelle bats, just three weeks old, were found in an airing cupboard, clinging to walls and inside a curtain after they had fled their roost in the roof of a house in Taunton, Somerset on Wednesday, 25 July…

Wales Online:

Animal rights organisation Peta says it has written to the Home Office asking for an investigation into why approval was given to experiments at Cardiff University in which kittens had their eyelids sewn shut.

The university  was condemned for conducting “cruel” experiments in which kittens’ eyes were sewn up and newborn litters raised in total darkness.

First bringing the issue to public attention, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) said it had uncovered evidence of the trials being undertaken by academics from Cardiff…