Shropshire has reinforced its reputation as home of the weird and wonderful after a new spate of big cat and UFO sightings.

Investigators say the county is among the top 10 locations in Britain for bizarre happenings.

And reports from Shropshire Star readers are still flooding in.

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The latest big cat sighting was reported by 89-year-old retired farmer Stan Hulme, of Preston Gubbals Road, Bomere Heath, near Shrewsbury.

He said he saw what he described as a “big old cat”, much bigger than the average feline, prowling around in a field near Myddle Hill yesterday.

“It was just going across the field,” he said.

“To start with I thought it was a sheep but there was nothing else in the field. I watched it for a while but I wasn’t worried. It was bigger than a dog but smaller than a sheep and was happily walking around and didn’t seem frightened. It’s an amazing thing.”

The Big Cat Society has investigated previous sightings all over Shropshire, with Telford being a particular hot spot.

Meanwhile, the Shropshire Star has also received several reports of unidentified flying objects from callers.

It follows a story in yesterday’s paper about pensioner John Ward, of Woodside, Telford, who spotted five strange lights near Wrekin Retail Park, Wellington on Saturday evening.

Trish Fryer, of St Georges, Telford, and George Cooper, of Knockin, both got in touch to say they had seen unusual bright lights in the sky.