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A cat which stopped a football match with an impromptu pitch invasion had been missing for months and presumed dead, its owner has said.

Topsey had escaped from owner Alison Jubb in June during a trip to a cattery in north Sheffield, Ms Jubb said.

The feline ran on to the pitch during Sheffield Wednesday's game against Wigan Athletic at Hillsborough on Tuesday night.

Topsey was eventually caught and taken to a vet to be examined.

Ms Jubb said she had her fingers crossed Topsey would be OK and she couldn't wait to see her again.

The cat had been bitten badly on the neck so was treated by the Vet who was at the match - is spending a night at the surgery for observation.

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Keepers at Dudley Zoo say a giant anteater pup is the first of its kind to be born at the venue in its 85-year history.

The yet-to-be-named animal arrived on 17 January and was "healthy and alert".

Born to Lyra and Bubbles, the pup came as "a surprise", the zoo's curator Richard Brown said, adding it was "fabulous news".

Giant anteaters are native to South and Central America and can measure up to 2.1m (7 feet) long.

Three-year-old mother Lyra arrived at Dudley Zoo from Yorkshire Wildlife Park less than a year ago and "hit it off immediately" with resident Bubbles, four.

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Watch on BBC News :  A sloth in Colombia's Antioquia region found itself in a spot of danger as it climbed an electricity pole and decided to hang from live wires.

Worried residents in the rural town of Taraza called on Colombian public service workers, Empresas Publicas de Medellin to come and save the sloth from potential electrocution.

After a lengthy 20 minute rescue, the sloth was safely brought down from the wires and released back into the wild.