内容摘要：On Monday a petition of about 6,000 signatures opposing the Newcastle project, which is due to receive £30m of funding from the Belfast Region City Deal, was presented to the Stormont Assembly.

On Monday a petition of about 6,000 signatures opposing the Newcastle project, which is due to receive £30m of funding from the Belfast Region City Deal, was presented to the Stormont Assembly.

He says: "It was about 4 to 5ft long in body, had a long tail and muscular rolling shoulders as it slowly slinked away."Paul believes many of the big cats were pets dumped after the introduction of

"People used to have them in their flats," he says.The law requires people to buy a licence and keep the animals in appropriate sized enclosures.Paul says: "I think there were multiple release events by owners whose other option was to have the cats destroyed.

"An illicit trade in exotic animals since then have added to those releases."Scotland's nature agency NatureScot advises on non-native mammals in the wild and has

about how to report unusual species.

A spokesperson said: "While we receive one or two sightings of big cats a year, none of the reports submitted over the past 34 years have provided sufficient evidence to conclude that big cats were present.She added Lexi was "shaken in a way that was rough, unnecessary, violent and caused her brain to start bleeding".

"The prosecution don't suggest that either Melissa Wilband or Jack Wheeler intended to kill Lexi or wanted to cause her serious harm," she told the court.Ms Osborne said it would have been clear to the person inflicting the injuries to Lexi that "some harm would be caused by their actions", and there was evidence that the incident "was not the first time Lexi had been shaken".

Ms Wilband and Mr Wheeler had been in a relationship for about three years but separated for several months when she became pregnant with another man in early 2019.In court on Tuesday, they were described as "regular cocaine users" and that Ms Wilband told Mr Wheeler throughout the pregnancy that he was the biological father, despite knowing this not to be the case, Ms Osborne said.