READER Julie Parish was in the right place at the right time when she managed to capture this wonderful picture of a bat - and just days before Halloween too.

"I watched this bat hoovering up the midges by the beck in Thornton -in -Craven, it was 1.30 pm which seemed quite unusual," she says.

We think it looks very much like the bat signal used by Commissioner Gordon to summon Batman.

Halloween is on Saturday.