More Big Cat sightings have been reported to HoldtheFrontPage after we revealed a spate of summer predators across the nation.

After our initial story we’ve been told of yet more of the mysterious beasts – dotted around the country in Devon, Gloucestershire and Derbyshire.

But photos remain as elusive as the beasts themselves.

A “panther-like beast” was spotted by Martin Turner, of Exeter, when he was walking his dog in Haldon, mid-Devon. This one was bigger than an Alsatian with a big, black tail, according to the report which ran in the Express and Echo.

His sighting followed one by midwife Trudie St John at nearby Chudleigh earlier in the year, and another at Cullompton.

A Big Cat hunt has been sparked in Derbyshire after two police officers saw a “panther-like” creature on the Leicestershire border.Swadlincote police say they are now taking all sightings seriously.

The Burton Mail asserted that whatever is out there avoided human contact by day and fed on rabbits at night.

Not far away, in the Peak District, the Derbyshire Times sent reporter Dave Smedley out to sort fact from fiction. Mutilated sheep near Matlock, slaughtered ostriches near Wirksworth and sightings of a six-foot long animal at Crich kept the trail warm.

He found a former lion tamer who claimed to have released a panther and a cougar in the 1970s. So the plot thickens.

And back in Gloucestershire, the Gloucestershire Echo told readers of an “enormous cat” stolling past Bob Rowland as he returned from his lunch break in Evesham.

Recent sightings include a panther-like creature in Leckhampton, savaged sheep in Seven Springs and another “large cat” at Dumbleton.

The RSPCA advises people to keep their distance.

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