A £55 million town centre development - which will include a supermarket, flats and brewery - has been approved unanimously.

Hand reared baby sloth Flash makes her first appearance in time for International Sloth Day.

A dog owner has been ordered to keep her rottweiler on a lead and muzzled during walks after it bit another woman on the buttock.

Thieves made off with 700 chickens from a farm - and police fear they may show up in new flocks.

A magician is appealing for help to find his stage companion, a pure white rabbit, after it went missing.

A motorway was blocked this afternoon after a swan wandered onto the road.

This cat is lucky to be alive after thugs reportedly strapped a firework to its body and set it off.

Dozens of animals’ lives are at risk after their habitats were left smothered in diesel allowed to leak from a stolen trailer at a nature reserve.

A special team was called in to free an animal which had become trapped in a water-logged ditch.

Rhia the Harris Hawk has gone missing - have you seen her?

A dog owner whose pooch longed for his return has made a heart-warming film that has gripped the internet.

Eurostar services were disrupted by wild boar on the line this evening.

A group of schoolboys filmed abusing a squirrel have been questioned under caution but will face no criminal action.

An animal charity is offering free health checks and MOTs for dogs.

Covering a village with elephants is no easy tusk. This is how - and why - it happened.

A cleaner who saved five kittens by giving them mouth-to-mouth is appealing for help to get one of them walking.

Dog owners have been warned to keep their pets out of these lakes due to a deadly blue green algae.

At two and a half feet tall and with a wingspan of more than twice that, an eagle owl isn’t exactly the typical target of a burglary.

The RSPCA has praised a council for its work with stray dogs, for the third year in a row.

Police have saved a swan from a sticky end after it was spotted wandering down a motorway.