– cost ₤£10,000
An enquiry under the UK’s Freedom of Information Act produced the response that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) had expended ₤10,000 on restuffing a Guyanese anaconda named Albert, which normally hangs suspended from the ceiling in the FCO’s library, according to the BBC website on Thursday.
Albert, it was said, who has been ensconced in the Foreign Office since at least 1892, was a gift to the Colonial Secretary from a bishop in what was then British Guiana. While the BBC reported that “exact names” were unknown,
