Our Zoo (BBC1) arrived with an air of early Sunday evenings: a new six-part drama on BBC1, set in 1930, about George Mottershead, a plucky man who loves animals and adventure, and so decides to set up ...

The true story of the Mottershead family who founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s. "Our Zoo" tells the true story of the Mottershead family who founded Chester Zoo in England in the 1930s. George ...

Tonight sees the first in the series of the new BBC drama based on the real story of Chester Zoo. Our Zoo was filmed in Liverpool this year and follows the Mottershead family, who transformed a ...

June Mottershead, whose story inspired TV series Our Zoo, Maddy Prior on 45 years in folk music, the hard sell of beauty products, and what is being done to get more women elected? Show more June ...

June Mottershead was just four and a half when her dad decided he wanted to set up a zoo and moved the entire family to the outskirts of Chester to fulfil his dream. For her, cuddling lion cubs and ...

Though only four years old, little June Mottershead knew that making new friends on her first day at school was going to be tricky. Her family had just moved to the village of Upton, near Chester, and ...

June Mottershead zips ahead on her mobility scooter as we enter the zoo by the old gatehouse. A member of staff plays an imaginary trumpet to welcome her, June laughs and exclaims at the neat ...

A blue plaque has been unveiled in Greater Manchester celebrating the life of the man who founded Chester Zoo. George Mottershead opened the zoo in 1931 in the grounds of a stately home in Upton. He ...