WE haven't seen much of Anna Ryder Richardson around the park lately as she's still on crutches and in a wheelchair following a nasty ankle injury after taking a tumble from her horse while out riding.

However, there's nothing wrong with her vocal chords, and she's been busy doing voice-overs for 'Anna's Welsh Zoo'.

And tonight's (Friday) the night - as the new series starts on ITV Wales at 8 pm - and you can retune your Sky box to get it in England.

If you're watching Children in Need, be sure to tape it.

Four of the programmes air before Christmas (including tonight and on November 25, December 2 and 9) and two after the seasonal break - unless there is another schedule change.

The new series tells the story of the last year on the park, the ups and downs and the people who work at the park. Hopefully the arrival of the Scimitar-horned oryx will feature large.

So impressed has the European co-ordinator been with how the oryx have been introduced and handled at the park, that she has given an exceptionally early permission to breed.

Usually granted after four or five years - Manor House were given permission after just six months - so it's a huge feather in their caps!

A hundred years ago, Scimitar-horned oryx would have been a familiar site on the plains of North Africa, but they are now extinct in the wild.

By joining the captive breeding programme, Manor House will be raising genetically important oryx to maturity, and subsequent release back to the wild.