Teddy bear target

Cyber pirates have mistakenly hijacked a British teddy bears' picnic.

The Algerian computer hackers mistook Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire - which is famous for its annual teddy bears' picnic - for the Belvoir Fortress in Israel, located some 3,218 kilometres away.

Hackers took over the website of the iconic British castle and replaced images of the stately home with a display of the Algerian flag and an Arabic tirade against the Jewish faith.

A spokeswoman for the castle explained: "We've nothing to do with the Middle East. I just help to organise the teddy bears' picnic."

The subversive group - entitled the Dz-Sec - eventually removed their post after it became clear the Leicestershire castle had nothing to do with the conflict in the Middle East.