Crusty the terrapin terrorises Wigan
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The offending North American Red Eared Terrapin has been named Crusty ("because he looks like a meat pie").
Countryside rangers had been receiving a call a week reporting the presence of "a giant turtle" before a local naturalist, Jayne Simon, caught sight of it attacking a grebe's nest earlier this week. As she got closer, she found that it was a reptile "the size of a dinner plate".
Graham Workman, a countryside services manager, identified it as a terrapin, perhaps up to 15 years old. How to catch it is another problem.
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