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Police are warning people not to approach a four foot snake which has escaped in Stoke-on-Trent.

The python has escaped from a home Meir Hay and police are asking anyone who sees it to contact them.

The animal is not poisonous.

A Staffordshire Police spokesman said: "We have been made aware of a four foot, non-venomous, black and white spotted python snake that has escaped from an address in Meir Hay.

"Please don't approach the animal and call us on 101 reference incident 187 of October 30."