Bone to pick: volunteers invited to rebuild 157-year-old whale skeleton

Whale Weekender at Grant Zoology Museum calls on public to clean then reassemble bones of 8-metre mammal

The public is invited to help reassemble a giant jigsaw in a London museum, 157 years after two Somerset fishermen went out to catch a "great fish" and brought back a northern bottlenosed whale more than eight metres (26ft) long.

Their catch was a local sensation: the carcass went on a west country tour then the skeleton was displayed for years hanging from the ceiling of the museum in Weston-super-Mare.