Sybil the cat moves into 10 Downing St
Nearly a decade after Humphrey was shown the door at 10 Downing Street, Britain's prime ministerial house has a cat in residence again.
Sybil, named after Basil Fawlty's wife in the classic 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers, arrived with Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Alistair Darling and his family, who are living in the flat above No 10.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, his wife and two sons live in the bigger flat at Number 11 Downing Street, traditionally the home of the Chancellor.
Sybil enjoys an advantage over Humphrey in that she comes with the family rather than the house.
Humphrey, who died in March 2006, had walked into London's most powerful address as a stray late in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative premiership in 1989.
He lived there on and off during John Major's tenancy, but six months after Labour's landslide election victory in May 1997 he was gone. Newspapers speculated that new occupant Tony Blair's wife Cherie had expelled him.
Brown's spokesman insisted that Sybil was welcome.
A new cat has moved into 10 Downing Street, the residence of now British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, following in the footsteps, or rather pawsteps, of previous Westminister cats "Humphery" and "Wilberforce".

"Sybil", named after "Sybil Fawlty", a character in the British sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'', belongs to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, who now lives in residence in a flat above 10 Downing Street (11 Downing Street) itself, having previously lived in Darling's residence in Scotland.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, "The prime minister and Sarah (wife of Brown) do not have a problem with it. I am sure the cat will appear at some point."

The cats at 10 Downing Street are often referred to as the, "10 Downing Street mousers" and are given the job of getting rid of mice. There has not been a cat in residence at the house since 1997, after Tony came to power. There were several rumours that Blair's wife, Cherie, was behind the move.