Raving Loonies get cat sense

London - A four-year-old ginger tomcat called Mandu assumed joint leadership of Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party…

London - A four-year-old ginger tomcat called Mandu assumed joint leadership of Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party yesterday after elections ended in a dead heat.

Mandu and his owner, Howling Laud Hope, both polled 125 votes in the contest to find a successor to the party's eccentric founder, Screaming Lord Sutch, who died in June.

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