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Are there tigers, panthers and other big cats living wild in Britain? PETER FROST goes big-game hunting
The Iberian lynx is the closest surviving relative of the original British lynx, but is extremely rare
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In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
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SINCE lockdown in March of this year, the number of assorted big-cat sightings in the wild has reached new heights.
Despite almost wall-to-wall virus stories, there have been reports of big cats of various descriptions on the prowl in Britain.
With the coronavirus lockdown failing early on to lock down goats in Llandudno or alpacas in the West Country, and with various zoo escapes spreading panic, perhaps it’s no surprise that all sorts of curious wild-animal sightings have been reported.
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