Article: Creature comforts Snapping turtles, poisonous snakes, giant footprints, big cat sightings - even a skunk - and it's still only May.

Snapping turtles, poisonous snakes, giant footprints, big cat sightings - even a skunk - and it's still only May.

We've not had so much excitement since the lions broke out of the circus and roamed around Top Town.

What high summer will bring, who can tell?

We might get an anaconda dragging a traffic warden into the Freshney, a crocodile in the sewers or killer bees descending on Cleethorpes In Bloom.

OK, I may be being a bit too flippant, but I'm only jealous because I haven't seen these unusual visitors myself.

Maybe David Attenborough will film his next series from Town Hall Square - I reckon it must be down to global warming.

But seriously, we don't know how lucky we are, as ...

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