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Rescue lions settling fast in Yorkshire zoo

- LUCY THORNTON

THE family of lions brought from war-torn Ukraine to safety in Britain are doing amazingly well, their keeper says.

Colin Northcott, in charge of the big beasts at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, says mum Aysa is now ready to be reintroduced to her cubs Santa, Teddi and Emi.

Colin, 59, said: "The speed of how they have settled in has been incredible. I thought it would take many weeks, not days."

Pregnant Aysa was first moved from a private zoo in Donetsk, Ukraine, to the country's capital Kyiv. She gave birth to the cubs there, and the family were then moved to Poznan in Poland.