A POPULAR programme following vets across Scotland as they tend to small, large and wild animals begins a new series on BBC ALBA tonight (Tuesday, September 29).

Amongst this season's featured cases will be vaccination for lion cubs at Blair Drummond safari park, risky surgery on a pug, and lambing difficulties in Stornoway.

Viewers will also be introduced to Ella Hamilton, who was born on Harris and returns to work as a vet there.

The series also follows vets Fiona Crowden and Kerry Voice in Forfar, where a cow in labour unwittingly puts its life at risk when it tries to sit down while the vet attempts to perform a caesarian. There is also pressure to deliver a calf safely from a surrogate cow that’s been used to breed an Aberdeen Angus pedigree, worth tens of thousands of pounds.

Viewers also catch up with Ealasaid Dick in Uist and Benbecula from previous series as she brings new lambs into the world and looks after some poorly ewes.

'Vets: Gach Creutair Beò' is created and produced by Aberdeen based Midas Media for BBC ALBA