A NELSON pet shop owner stepped up his regular order of grass snakes. Derek Cheetham took deliver of 1,000 snakes, the biggest consignment ever to reach the town. His previous year's order of 200 had proved insufficient.
One or two Nelson schools ordered them for zoology departments, but the rest were all booked to be private pets!
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