CROCODILES which can grow up to three metres long were among a haul of deadly reptiles destined for sale here, it emerged last night.

Animal welfare officers in the North have seized 10 crocodiles and other reptiles found in the boot of a car in Co Down last night.

Animal welfare officers believe they may have broken up a puppy farm in the North during a joint operation with the police.

HERE’s a picture that should give the public paws for thought.

THE net was closing in last night on a big cat running wild on a stretch of Northern Ireland’s coastline.

An escaped big cat has been blamed for slaughtering a ram on a farm near the Co Antrim village of Bushmills overnight.

A puma has been spotted on the loose on the north Antrim coast, it emerged tonight.

Police in the North were today hunting thugs who savagely beat to death more than a dozen sheep and lambs at an isolated farm.