It is this threat to Britain's long-term prosperity that now worries Mr Brown, says Edmund King of the RAC Foundation, a motorists' lobbying organisation.

The little King Penguin had already grown majestic black and white feathers on his wings and stomach. But instead of a golden crest on his head, sat a tuft of downy brown fluff.

The common king snake found throughout the u. s. and in northern Mexico is usually black or dark brown variously blotched ringed or speckled with yellow or white.