Rampaging bullock shot by police

A police marksman shot the escaped animal

Armed police shot dead a bullock which escaped from a North Yorkshire cattle market and went on the rampage.

One person was injured and a number of properties were damaged as the animal fled the market in Ashley Road, Northallerton, on Wednesday evening.

After running through residential streets and gardens, the animal was finally cornered in Applegarth Grove.

After a long stand-off it was humanely destroyed by firearms officers due to concern for public safety, police said.

The fleeing animal was spotted at the railway station yard and then in the car park of a doctor's surgery on Boroughbridge Road and then in the garden of a house in Studley Close.