Chester zoo unveils £28m ‘Africa’ facility – complete with chilly giraffes

Nine-hectare site home to 57 species including rhino, zebras and ostriches in UK's biggest such development

Although we are trying to replicate Uganda and Kenya we are actually in Cheshire so the weather is slightly different," admits Chester zoo boss, Jamie Christon, on a fresh and very grey Monday morning.

But ignore the chilliness and screw your eyes and you could well be transported to a sweeping African savannah where, one day, there will be giraffes, zebras, antelopes and ostriches roaming majestically side by side.