Suki the cat miraculously survives boobytrapped bird table - then a parish councillor resigns

Suki, an 11-year-old tabby cat, escaped the explosion on the bird table with singed whiskers - (LBC)

The ancient proverb goes that a cat has nine lives - but poor Suki looks like she doesn’t have many left after startling footage showed the 11-year-old tabby surviving an explosion on a bird table.

The video of the incident in the Northamptonshire village of Whittlebury shows the cat entering the free-standing bird table before an apparent explosive device forced her to make a quick exit.