Alive, hissing ... and living nearby

SNAKES AND A RARE LEOPARD CAT ARE CAPTIVE IN REGION

snakes. Only certain species require a licence to be kept, including cobras, vipers and rattlesnakes.

A resident in Erewash also owns numerous snakes requiring a dangerous animal licence.

Derbyshire Dales District Council has not issued any dangerous animal licences in the past three years.

In 2012, the Press Association revealed the results of Freedom of Information requests, which had been sent off to hundreds of councils across the UK.

It found that there were licences for more than 2,000 wild boar, 412 bison, more than 300 venomous snakes, 145 ostriches, 115 lemurs, 15 wolves, 13 tigers, 10 alligators, nine pumas, nine crocodiles, eight leopards, seven cheetahs and two lions. Daniel Singleton, 25, of Midland Road, Swadlincote. Admitted stealing meat worth £40 from Morrisons, Swadlincote, on September 29. Also admitted stealing a Panasonic Blueray player worth £75 from Sainsbury’s, Swadlincote, on September 12. Ordered to pay £75 compensation, £85 court costs and a £85 victim surcharge. Given a 12-month community order with a 12 week curfew. and ordered to complete a drug rehabilitation requirement. Leigh-Anne Francis, 44, of Brizlincote Lane, Burton. Admitted driving a vehicle in Twyford Road, Willington, on October 15 with 91 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35. Fined £2,038 and banned from driving for 23 months.

Rattlesnakes need a licence to be kept in the UK. A number of other snakes needing a licence are kept locally Cases heard recently before Southern Derbyshire magistrates Carole Brown, 49, of Main Street, Linton. Admitted stealing meat worth £112 from Sainbury’s, Church Gresley, on October 5. Given an 18-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £50 compensation.