A mysterious big cat has been spotted in Macclesfield.

Grandmother Sheila Foster claims she spotted the unusual animal while looking out her front window on Moss Lane at 6am on Monday.

She described a “brown-grey big cat the size of a large dog which had a long tail with a kink in it”. It was stood on a wall about 50 yards across the road.

Sheila, 72, said: “At first I thought it was a big stone then it moved. I could hardly believe my eyes.”