Lost Polar Bear walks past Whitehall

You won't believe this but it actually happened - a big white polar bear wandered around London and even walked past the smartly turned guards of the Whitehall - harmlessly.

Photo Courtesy: Daily Mail

The Arctic animal shocked tourists and passers-by as well as the Household Calvary by lingering between the capital's iconic red phone boxes and strolling casually past the Houses of Parliament.

But this was not simply a stray who had wandered too far from home - it was a puppet commissioned as part of a global Greenpeace campaign to protect the freezing North.

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