3.5m snake caught in sewer

A 3.5m snake thought to have been living in sewerage pipes in a block of flats in northern England for three months has been caught.

Keith the boa constrictor may have been abandoned in revenge by a tenant who was evicted owing £5500 ($14,000) in rent.

Residents of the Manchester flats were reduced to putting bricks on toilet seats to stop Keith's appearances, and had trouble convincing others that it was real, until one of them coaxed it into a bucket.