Here's the extraordinary story of Coco the cat, and her arthritic joints. Coco's nearly 16 years old, which in human years, makes her in her nineties .
She has arthritis, and she's also been hit by a car, but thanks to an animal hydrotherapy pool, Coco now has a spring in her step.
This is one fearless feline, and she's taken to the pool like a duck to water. Jane Hesketh reports.
Polly the inter-city kitty is on her final journey home after travelling 1700 miles around the South West, trapped under the carriage of a train. After two weeks at the vets, she is ready to be reunited with her owners at Plymouth Railway Station.
Kate Beech, a nurse at Rosvean Vets in Penzance, is travelling with the cat and says: 'she has made an excellent recovery. She's put on a kilo in a week and had all her stitches out. She's coping extremely well without her front leg'.
– Dermot Hogan, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Station managerFirefighters arrived and found the building well alight. The cattery owners stated that there had been over 20 cats in the cattery, however some are believed to have escaped from the building after the fire broke out.
The building has been destroyed as it was predominately a wooden structure and we've been unable to confirm so far how many cats have died in the fire.
A fire investigation was carried out to establish how the fire started and we believe an electrical fault within one of the pens is to blame.
The owner of the Pinetrees cattery spoke of her devastation after a blaze ripped through the building last night.
A weeping Lynn Durnell said her own four cats were among the casualties:
We've contacted those involved. It's very hard. Four of the cats that died belonged to us. I'm devastated.
Two cats have been confirmed dead and at least 18 are still unaccounted for after a blaze ripped through a cattery.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue service battled the blaze at the cattery in Stafford Road, Cannock, at 5.30am.
A spokesman confirmed the brigade was not treating the fire as suspicious and said several of the missing cats might have escaped unharmed.
Cats are being treated by vets as firefighters continue to battle a blaze at a cattery.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said two cats were taken away by vets after a fire broke out in one of the site's buildings in Cannock, Staffordshire, at about 5.30am today.
The fire brigade has six crews on the scene including a water carrier and a high volume pumping unit. The fire is ongoing.
The disappearance of over 20 house and car keys in a London neighbourhood raised fears of a thief, until the culprit was finally collared.
Read the full storyA cat was killed when a firework which was strapped to its back exploded.
Northamptonshire Police have launched an investigation after the incident was reported by a woman who witnessed the blast with her daughter in Shelley Road, Wellingborough, just after 6pm on Saturday.
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