The cubs will be named after their first vet check at eight weeks old.

The money will help rescue five lions from Ukraine and take them to the Lion Rescue Centre.

The two sisters were rescued from a war zone in Ukraine and are now at Five Sisters Zoo in West Lothian.

Asiatic lions and meerkats at the zoo in central London receive a taste of Halloween with their own pumpkins.

The lionesses are in Belgium until they are due to arrive at a Kent sanctuary in November.

Yuna, a lioness from Ukraine with shell shock, has ventured to the outside of her enclosure.

Three-year-old lioness Yuna has arrived at her new enclosure at The Big Cat Sanctuary.

Yuna is the first of five lions rescued from the warzone due to make a new home in Kent.