Police stepped in to detain a 12ft-long python after a member of the public reported the snake slithering along a street in West Bromwich in the early hours. A picture released by West Midlands Police ...

Police are searching for an escaped 9ft 'killer' python after it was spotted in an Essex back garden. The dangerous snake, nicknamed Monty by a local snake expert, disappeared from a home in Shoebury, ...

Police stepped in to detain a 12ft-long python after a member of the public reported the snake slithering along a street in West Bromwich in the early hours. A picture released by West Midlands Police ...

Police are appealing for information after a 16ft python was found dead in a canal. The snake may have been living in the wild for a number of days and a python of this size could have been capable of ...

A reptile shop owner is recovering in hospital after police officers pried off a 20ft (6m) python that was attempting to crush him. Terry Wilkins, owner of Captive Born Reptiles in Newport, Kentucky, ...

A man who claims he captured a live python in a park following a police appeal has said he found a second snake dead in a nearby tree. Snake enthusiast Zoltan Pohner, from Bournemouth, travelled to ...

Police are searching for a slippery character in Cambridgeshire following reports that a 9ft-long snake is on the loose. Officers were initially told the reticulated python - which is the longest ...

A picture released by West Midlands Police showed three officers getting to grips with the reptile after being called to Harwood Street at about 1.30am on Tuesday. Our officers are not easily rattled ...

Police stepped in to detain a 12ft-long python after a member of the public reported the snake slithering along a street in West Bromwich in the early hours (West Midlands Police/PA) Police stepped in ...