YET another snake has been found slithering around Teesside.

Two snakes, one an 8ft Burmese Python and the other 6ft Boa Constrictor, were found in Wilton and Guisborough earlier in the month.

And now the RSPCA has revealed that a third snake has been found, this time at the Cineworld car park in Middlesbrough at about 11pm on Saturday, July 18.

RSPCA Inspector Clare Wilson, thanked members of the public who helped with the rescue and said: "I was called to a snake trapped in a car engine in the car park of Cineworld in the centre of Middlesbrough. I attended and the police were already on scene.

"Members of the public told me that they thought someone had dumped a snake and they had seen the snake crawling up into the car engine earlier.

"They had videoed it so I could see the call was genuine and could see that it was a domestic breed of snake and not a wild native species. It appeared to be a red and brown corn snake of about a metre in length.

"I looked in the engine and under the car carefully but could not establish where the snake was and eventually we had to ask the car's owner to drive the car slowly round the car park to see if we could get it to move.

"The snake then appeared under the chassis but the gap was too small to get a hand in. We then banged on places and moved the snake closer to an accessible gap and eventually it crawled to the top of the engine where I could get hold of it."

Insp Wilson had the snake checked out by experts and it was found to be in good condition.

Anyone with information about the snake is asked to call Inspector Wilson on the RSPCA press appeals line on 0300-123-8018.