Artist’s eighth London artwork in eight days appears

Street artist Banksy has unveiled an eighth new London mural in eight days – showing a rhino mounting a Nissan Micra with a traffic cone on its bonnet.

It appeared in Charlton, south-east London, and was confirmed on Banksy’s Instagram account.

It comes a day after he painted swimming piranhas on to a City of London Police sentry box, which was first spotted on Sunday morning.

The translucent fish formed the seventh piece in an animal-themed art series across the capital.

On Monday last week, a goat appeared on the side of a building near Kew Bridge, followed by an image of two elephants touching trunks on the side of a house in Chelsea on Tuesday.

Three monkeys hanging from a bridge in Brick Lane then drew crowds on Wednesday.

On Thursday, a howling wolf on a satellite dish – which looked like the animal was howling at the moon – was installed onto a garage roof in Peckham.

But it was hours before it was seen taken down by men and carried off down Rye lane.

The artist is neither connected to nor endorses the theft of the wolf design and that they have “no knowledge as to the dish’s current whereabouts,” Banksy’s press team confirmed.

On Friday, locals in Walthamstow woke up to find two pelicans fishing above a fish shop.

And on Saturday, a stencil of a cat having a stretch appeared on an empty billboard in Cricklewood.

Crowds booed as the piece in Cricklewood was dismantled by three men who said they were “hired” by a “contracting company” to take down the billboard for safety reasons.

In the historic Old Bailey courts on Monday, Judge Mark Lucraft KC discharged a jury after it failed to reach a verdict in a death by careless driving trial and suggested they might enjoy the weather with a visit to the nearby Banksy instead.