Around the Nub News network: Rare white wallaby spotted living wild in the West Midlands

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A rare white wallaby has been sighted out and about in the Warwickshire countryside.

Thirteen-year-old Harriet Billyeald spotted the marsupial as her father drove her to school on Monday (February 7).

Dad, Mark, was forced to step on the brakes as the wallaby bounced into the road ahead of them.

"We were going round a corner and then we had to quickly stop because we saw the wallaby in the road," said Harriet.

"We didn't know what it was at first. I took a load of photos and then I called my mum to tell her. It was really surprising seeing it."

The wallaby was first spotted in Warwickshire last October and there have been at least two more sightings since then.

Native not to the West Midlands, but to Bruny Island in Tasmania, white wallabies are so coloured because of a rare genetic mutation.

Harriet added: "It stayed there for quite a while, it bounced back and forth and stayed in the middle of the road.

"It wasn't very interested in the car, it looked at us a couple of times but then it hopped away."

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