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POLICE AND ANIMAL experts are currently trying to locate and recapture a lone wolf that escaped from a zoo in Essex earlier today.
Essex police confirmed they were assisting staff from Colchester Zoo in the task about an hour ago.
At the same time, the animal was spotted and an area has been contained. It is understood the wolf is sheltering in thick undergrowth.
Two of its companions were shot dead after escaping their enclosure earlier.
In a brief statement on Twitter, the zoo said: “Please note a full explanation/report will be given in due course after conclusion of the events please bear with us at this difficult time.”
In a separate statement to the BBC, a spokesperson added:
Colchester Zoo’s keepers have been devastated by the loss of two of their beloved timber wolves.
“Wolves are naturally timid and provided they are not cornered in any way do not provide a risk to the public,” she concluded.
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Well we do have an atrocious transport system in the City… Everyone uses their cars.
I’d buy a wetsuit,goggles and swim across the Lee to work before I’d pay a toll charge for the tunnel.
Bet it was just a pothole!
Leon James .. Spoken like a true Cork Man !!!
Anyone else reading the comments in a Cork accent lol
Ur lucky it hasn’t been tolled to date.
The NRA wanted to toll the tunnel. Varadkar told them to F off for themselves. Get your facts right.
Then why did the erect a large eFlow electronic sign on the M8 before the Glanmire exit? It’s been there a year or more now but never seems to have any message on it. Wait for a toll to be put in place maybe?
Drove past this flood yesterday…traffic backed up to the airport roundabout and the solution according to our learned city fathers…? Traffic cones and red and white tape….yeah..that’ll solve it.
Interesting that people talk of tolls. The EU are set to increase the amount of tolls across Europe over the next twenty years. Enjoy it folks you voted for it.
I was only in the traffic for one and a half hours for what would normally be at 15 – 20 minute journey but it sounds like I was lucky and that was between 7 – 8:30. One thing that jumped out at me : I went thru one of the busiest routes in the city from town into Douglas and I didn’t see one single guard directing traffic at the busy junctions. NOT ONE. The problem was the traffic lights were still in running and yet the whole place is at a standstill. Plenty of Guards to catch you doing 5-10 kms over speed limit on a stretch of road that is practically accident free tho WTF??? Not good enough.,
Wish I could like your comment a million times – hit the nail in the head
Absolute agree. Stuck in traffic for an hour and a half in the city and Absolutely no sign of one copper. People completely ignored yellow boxes and traffic lights. A disgrace.
Problem is that there is a total lack of electonic signage on approach and on this stretch of road, so you never have real time information
The south ring is just a car park east bound morning and evening and will be until the traffic lights are removed at the tunnel….also while I’m on the topic, City bound from Midleton every morning is a joke with tools acting the bollix both at the tunnel and further in at silversprings trying to jump the queues
Mcgoo, only in Ireland do you get traffic lights at roundabouts.
@mcgoo
The road layout inbound at Silversprings is a total disgrace.Two lanes into one and City bound cars crossing over the single white line.How there is not a serious crash there yet is beyond me.Not to mention all the roads around with the lines worn off.They need a serious kicking in the roads dept.
Cork people are terrible at roundabouts so we kinda need the lights. I’ve never witnessed indicators being used properly on a roundabout in all my time here.
You mean you are meant to use indicators ?
What are those ?
Lane1 flooded just before tunnel reduced everything to single lane. Instead of clearing the drains they just closed the lane. Incompetence at highest level.
They could’ve clear the drains because they would need a diving team to do it. Problem is ignored maintenance.
Problem is there is no accountability in local councils
100% correct, the city councils of this country are embarrassing.
The problem is the tunnel is no longer controlled by the city council. The new people running it have no clue how to run the pumps or clear the valves.
Got stuck in this trying to get on the Dublin Road. Ended driving into town. Town was gridlocked too. And not a traffic Garda to be seen.
I’ve never experienced anything like it in Cork before.
Council f****d the whole place up! Free money from Europe for cycle lanes and they think they can turn the city into Amster f****ing dam! Public transport system needed to be sorted first!
Where would be without those who can’t stay off Twitter or Facebook for 10mins keeping us updated on the traffic .
Crazy system..seems the same nationwide..locally,you can set your advent calendar by the amount of footpaths being dug up and replaced in December…use is Or lose it system..crazy!..wonder is the same true of all public bodies expenditure?..if it is then hate to even think of the waste of OUR money involved..
When I’m delayed in traffic due to severe flooding I amuse myself by opening the window and imagining the rain sliding down the roof is a waterfall.
I have a large collection of these ‘waterfall’ videos at home.
Water, like …
It just doesn’t fall from the sky you know.
i thought the transport system was for cars…yous have a poor bus system. thats what you should have said..
Transport or transportation is the movement of people, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is important because it enables trade between persons, which is essential for the development of civilizations.( Thanks Wiki)
the road system is mad at the moment…roadworks everywhere. I was going from cork to wexford this week and had three stops for roadworks.I never saw this during the summer months, when its safer. Why do most roadworks happen in winter?
Possibly because I’ve heard that the councils are allocated a set amount for roadworks. I think they tend to keep some in reserve for any unforseen repairs, however come the end of the year of the budget is not used then it gets cut the following year, hence you will see a lot of road works in December to use up what’s left.
@Bah – you’re quite right. Stupid asinine system which ensures maximum waste of public funds. Only crumb of comfort is it’s a fairly global idiocy.
I was in Cork city during the summer for the first time and the inner city buses seemed decent
Jenni, well it appears that the road system is equally as poor here, whenever there’s as much as a shower it grinds to a halt. What cork needs is an integrated public transport system deserving of the great city that cork is. The govt have let it down time and time again and tonight when all the mothers and fathers finally make it home from work after paying their taxes for the “running” of the state I hope they spend a few minutes asking themselves who they’d like to see running their city, the same tired old faces or something new and fresh.
@Normal One.
Some routes like the ones servicing the University and ITs are good. Some other like the ones serving Mahon are a joke.
I was caught in that jam on south link for 2 and a half hours.When i got to the flood that was causing the traffic problems I saw it was a flood I could have cleared with a yard brush.Complete incompetence by tunnel management system
Best date ever..!!!!! Driving around ballintemple.. Thank god for the smaritians
Thank God for earplugs
Yeah you must be exhausted from listening to yourself
I need a wee . . . Are we there yet
Poor fella must have been a shit date
Only because the cash points were to far away!!!
Can these drivers now take Irish Water to court for false imprisonment?
Surely the rain will have a day in court like Paul Murphy TD!
I joined the N40 from Cork Airport at the roundabout at 1410 , 1 hour and 15 minutes later I reached the Jack Lynch Tunnel
There was no flooding in the tunnel
The left lane between Mahon and the tunnel entrance had a small flood
There was an NRA truck with an arrow directing traffic in to the right Lane and. Traffic cones in place
Not
A sign of a pump or a fire brigade to pump the water into the fields or a Guard to direct the traffic
Nobody from Cork County Council either
Simply appalling,
Miles and miles of traffic backed up and no assistance whatsoever
The ‘Real’ Capital of Ireland – me Arse.
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