FILM fans will get an X-tra special treat when they visit a movie and television exhibition at a North-East museum.

Props from the latest blockbuster, X-Men, have arrived at Newcastle's Hancock Museum, for the Top Secret exhibition.

The film, based on the Marvel Comics series, is set in the not too distant future and sees heroic mutants battling their evil peers.

Two of the "good" mutants, Wolverine and Cyclops, are represented in the exhibition.

The museum had to wait until the film was released in Britain before Wolverine's metal claw and Cyclops' laser spewing visor could be put on show. The exhibition is on until September 17.