IN the second of two white rabbit incidents in Ipswich in the last few days, another bright eyed bunny has been found in a school play ground.It took four men and a good 20 minutes to catch Eric the runaway rabbit who has been spending the day in the school office at Sidegate Primary School waiting for his owners to track him down.

IN the second of two white rabbit incidents in Ipswich in the last few days, another bright eyed bunny has been found in a school play ground.

It took four men and a good 20 minutes to catch Eric the runaway rabbit who has been spending the day in the school office at Sidegate Primary School waiting for his owners to track him down.

Mary Chilvers, receptionist at the School, said: “He was found this morning by the groundsmen on the school playground.

“He's a happy little boy and we've named him Eric.

“I've got him in a cardboard box and I'm feeding him carrots.

“It took 20 minutes to catch him.

“There were two groundsmen, our site manager and head cleaner trying to catch him without hurting him or frightening him too much but he can run very fast apparently.”

Eric, an albino rabbit, is not the first hot-footed rabbit to go on the run in Ipswich recently.

On Thursday The Evening Star reported that Beckham the Bunny had gone missing for the second time in one week from her home in Chesterfield Drive, Ipswich, leaving her owner, Laura Gooding, 12, desperate for her return.

The Bursar at Sidegate Primary School, Chris Dorling is currently in the process of contacting animal rescue groups in the hope Eric's owners can be found.

She said: “We thought perhaps we might have a parent in the school come in and claim him but no one's come forward yet.”

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