A pensioner has spurned run-of-the-mill gnomes and decorated his garden with two giant gorillas and a towering dinosaur, The Mirror reports.

Great-granddad Jake Pearson, 73, paid £600 for the 9ft-tall fibreglass raptor to stand alongside a pair of gorillas which he bought online for £2,000.

The giant animals have turned Jake's home in Dudley, West Midlands, into a mini-tourist attraction.

Local children and neighbours often pose for photos with the animals with the pensioner asking them to donate to Cancer Research.

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