You need a licence for one of these, which one?

UNDER law, you need a licence for a Red Setter — but not for a Bengal tiger.

Animal welfare groups want the Government to introduce legislation amid evidence of a drastic increase in the number of potentially dangerous animals being kept here in the past 15 years.

In Britain, where regulations are in force, statistics show there are five million reptiles in private hands a threefold growth within the last decade.