NATURAL history expert Derek Farr's skills with animals were called up to solve a spot of bunny bother in the village of Bradley.

Mr Farr, who is the natural sciences curator at Keighley's Cliffe Castle Museum, received a telephone call from Bradley School governor Jackie Campbell in a fit of giggles asking him to attend an "emergency situation".

It seems Jackie had stopped to attend a dazed wild rabbit hit by a car and was comforting the creature on the front seat of her vehicle when it decided to make a break for it.

The animal headed for the nearest dark hole, which just happened to be a hollow near the car's gear stick and pedals, and just would not budge.

Fearing she would wake up in the morning to find a dead bunny in her car, Jackie decided to call on the skills of Mr Farr.

"I don't live very far from the school and so I got this strange phone call telling me there was a rabbit stuck in the car," said Mr Farr, who likened the incident to a television comedy sketch.

"When I got there, there was this rabbit's bottom sticking out of this hole in the car and I gently persuaded it to come out.

"It seems the animal had woken up from its dazed state and decided that it didn't want to be on the front seat of the car anymore.

"This is certainly one of the more unusual things I have been asked to do."

Mr Farr, who is more used to dealing with stuffed animals, said the rabbit was returned safely to the nearest field and hopped out of sight.

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