IT'S easy to be sceptical about sightings of a big cat-like creature wandering the Peterborough countryside. But what if the creature really is out there?
It's a scary thought, because there's no reason to think a panther or a puma would be particularly friendly towards humans. Luckily, perhaps, no one who has spotted it has said they came within a whisker of being attacked by the mystery feline.
Th
e possibility that somehow a big cat has been let loose into the wild is hard to discount when more and more sightings are being reported.
The latest person to spot it, city pensioner Jean Burton admits she, too, had doubts about the existence of the so-called "Beast of Bretton" until she saw it for herself while walking in Southey Woods with her husband. Now she has described it as "a most beautiful animal that is blacker than coal and bigger than a fox, with a long tail."
It would be handy if the next person to spot it could let us have a photograph. That way we could get an expert to solve the growing mystery of what is on the prowl.
War victim finally gets recognitionFULL marks to historian Chris Harley, from the March branch of the Royal British Legion, for getting overdue recognition for soldier Harry Thimbleby who fought in the trenches in the Great War.
There's no doubt that fighting in this hellish conflict caused his death.
Now a headstone will show Harry was a hero.
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