What better way to celebrate the return of Monty Python than hanging a giant dead parrot from a crane? The fibre-glass version of the bird, which famously features in a celebrated Monty Python sketch ...

This ex-parrot has not been nailed on its perch but it has been hung upside down from a crane. The fibre-glass version of the bird, which famously features in a celebrated Monty Python sketch where ...

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It did seem a little odd to find myself on a train on its way to Birmingham in search of parrots. Yes, parrots, those squawky, gaudy exotic birds beloved by collectors and artists alike for their ...

Margaret Thatcher did not "entirely grasp" why mocking the Liberal Democrats' logo using Monty Python's dead parrot sketch was funny, the Culture Secretary has said. John Whittingdale, former ...

Monty Python, left to right: Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin The dead parrot went live 50 years ago on Sunday when Monty Python made the leap from ...

Plans for a new bar and music venue have been thrown out amid fears neighbours would be “forced to listen to rock music late into the night”. Councillors unanimously rejected the scheme for The ...