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Big cat report from Gloucestershire

Beast of Exmoor photographed?

Her Majesty and the Monster

A Moredon couple has made one of the most extraordinary archeological finds in history when they discovered preserved fossils of mammoth in a quarry to the north of the town.

Neville and Sally Hollingworth, part-time fossil hunters, immediately realised the magnitude of their find and called in archeologists from DigVentures as reinforcements – who soon unearthed five ice-age mammoths in an extraordinary state of preservation.

The couple’s find was so remarkable that David Attenborough and evolutionary biologist professor Ben Garrod will be presenting a BBC One documentary on it – Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard – which will air on December 30

A primary school teacher who attacked a horse has been sacked from her job.

On November 6, the Hertfordshire Hunt Saboteurs captured a video of a woman kicking and hitting a horse while out with the Cottesmore Hunt at the Drift in Gunby.

After going viral on social media, the footage sparked outrage with people, including wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham, calling for the woman to be brought to justice.

Hunting became increasingly secretive after it was made illegal in 2005. Since the explosive Hunting Office webinars – which exposed ‘trail hunting’ as a smokescreen for traditional hunting – the hunters have been driven even further underground.

‘The cat was about three feet away from me,’ he said. ‘It was a sandy colour and had black stripes going down and around from it’s eyes to it’s nose’

Chris Packham and a campaign to “rewild the royals” have had a “really good” meeting with the crown estate to ask it to consider pledging a slice of its 615,000 acres to wild nature.

A video taken in a rural part of Northumberland appears to show a large black cat walking across a farmer’s field – in broad daylight.

The footage was taken in the remote Allen Valleys by a worker who wishes to remain anonymous – but said it “had to be bigger” than a normal cat after spotting it from around 40 metres away.

London mayor releases £600,000 funding to help create green rooftops and reintroduce lost species.