Staff said the bird was seen pecking at the Renault Laguna parked at The Animal Ark park at Great Witchingham, Norfolk, on Monday.

Park owner Steve Bealey said the car was scratched and a visitor reported seeing a peacock pecking at it.

Car owners David and Rachel Burton, who live near Dereham, Norfolk, said the damage would cost more than £2,000 to repair.

IT'S A COMPLICATED OLD GAME
Football fans need graduate-level reading skills to understand the offside rule, but cricket regulations are far easier to grasp, research found today.

Despite the image of cricket as the more intellectual pursuit, the rules are rarely more challenging than a GCSE exam to understand, according to the Learning and Skills Council.

But fans watching crucial promotion and relegation football fixtures last weekend needed to make an average of 10 maths calculations on league positions and goal differences to understand the fate of their teams.

GET THE POINT
An acupuncture patient returned home from treatment with a two-inch needle stuck in her back, she said.

Back pain sufferer Wendy Dempsey had her first acupuncture session at a hospital in Newport, South Wales.

The 54-year-old claims she suffered excruciating pain as she drove the five miles to her Llanmartin home and only realised what was wrong when her nephew, Ieuan Edwards, started screaming.

GRENADE ESCAPE
A man told of his narrow escape after finding a live grenade in a shed he was about to knock down.

Bomb disposal experts were called to Paul Fittock's home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, to detonate the Second World War device he found gathering dust on a shelf.

The 33-year-old only discovered the device in rafters of the old wooden shed because he was carrying out a final inspection before sledgehammering it down.

BOWLED OVER
A blind man has scored a perfect 300 in a ten-pin bowling game.
Dale Davis, 78, from Iowa, rolled 12 back-to-back strikes to achieve the feat.

"I can't see the lane or the pins and have a heck of a time finding my ball sometimes,'' he said.

APE BIRTHDAY
A gorilla recognised as the oldest in captivity has celebrated her 55th birthday with a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf-wrapped treats.

Jenny's caretakers at Dallas Zoo say she is having a few joint issues and her eyesight is not what it used to be but she still looks good for an old ape.

The zoo says the birthday shows it has made "great strides in veterinary care, nutrition and animal husbandry''.

POSSSST SSSERVICE
A parcel handed in for posting in Darmstadt, Germany, contained two tiger pythons and an albino tiger python more than a yard long.

A post office worker noticed one of them after it apparently bit through the package.

Police said they have put the sender under investigation for possible violation of animal protection laws.