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Oh, nuts! Squirrels have invaded the animal kingdom designed to attract birds and bugs (Picture: Jeff Moore)

Nut welcome! Squirrel squatters invade tree-top 'city' for birds and insects

Weird December 10, 2019

Ben O'Neill 14 of East Leake, Notts who is the first person in the world a new type of heart operation. Pictured (L-R) Ben O'Neill 14, Sean O`Neill, Rebecca O`Neill and Sam O`Neill 17. A teenage boy with a rare condition which left his heart TWICE its normal size has undergone a pioneering world's first operation to save his life. See NTI story NTIHEART. Ben O'Neill, 14, went under the knife for ground-breaking keyhole surgery to insert a stent into his heart at the Glenfield Hospital in Glenfield, Leics. Doctors decided to perform the procedure on the youngster after a major blood vessel between his heart and lungs completely COLLAPSED. A team of 20 experts then faced a race against time as they battled to save Ben during the five hour procedure which had never been tried before. Medics inserted a stent into his heart and then a new valve - taken from the jugular of a Australian COW - in order to repair his pulmonary artery. Brave Ben has suffered from the rare genetic condition tetralogy of fallot for his entire life, which has left him with FOUR different heart defects at the same time. But thanks to the pioneering operation the cricket-mad teen is now back at the crease and enjoying his new lease of life.

Teenager's life saved by Australian cow

UK December 10, 2019

Support: Rolf Harris arrives with his daughter Bindi at Southwark crown court (Picture: AFP/Getty)

Rolf Harris ‘abused me while his daughter lay asleep’

UK December 10, 2019

Evocative: A dancer performs during Poland’s Eurovision entry (Picture: Getty)

Poland’s 'soft porn' Eurovision entry ‘went two boobs too far’

TV December 10, 2019

Powe knocked out Vitalis Katakinas during a late-night brawl outside a Wetherspoon pub, the Old Bailey heard (Picture: File/Alamy)

Silent row ‘that ended in deaf man killing another’

UK December 10, 2019

Scared of monsters in my closet: Kirstie Hughes has had a phobia of wardrobes ever since watching the Robet De Niro horror flick Godsend as a child (Picture: Mercury)

You won't believe what this barmaid has a phobia of...

Weird December 10, 2019

Luxury: The gates to the mansion where Shoja Shojai is accused of keeping his nine model mistresses, with whom he fathered seven children (Picture: Solarpix)

Millionaire ‘held harem of models against their will’

UK December 10, 2019

Big boy: Rishi has shed 13kg since his weight-loss op (Picture: Shariq Allaqaband)

Obese boy, 4, has extreme weight loss surgery

World December 10, 2019

Superfit female soldiers may serve on the frontline

UK December 10, 2019

PIC FROM CATERS NEWS - (PICTURED: The restaurant) - DEEP sea diners enjoy a meal surrounded by sharks at the world's only underwater restaurant. Ithaa in the Maldives sits three metres below the surface of the Indian Ocean in a vibrant coral garden. The all-glass structure - which consists of three five-metre wide, 125mm thick glass arches - allows diners to scoff caviar as sharks and sting-rays swim by

Become a deep-sea diner... without the need for a snorkel

World December 10, 2019

Donald Graham killed Janet Brown, pictured – who has not been seen for nine years – to fund his extravagant lifestyle, jurors were told

Lover ‘killed heiress and then stole from parents’

UK December 10, 2019

Stuart Hall cleared of raping two young girls at trial

Stuart Hall ‘raped two girls in his BBC dressing room’

UK December 10, 2019

Luxury: The Baldwins have bulldozed and rebuilt Hook Sands in Sandbanks (Picture: BNPS)

This £5m beachfront house that started life as a £1k bungalow (sort of)

UK December 10, 2019

Hanged: Hannah Smith’s death was blamed on internet trolls (Picture: News Team)

Internet suicide schoolgirl 'trolled herself online'

UK December 10, 2019

Gone too soon: Violet Mornington died, aged five, of a rare blood disorder that doctors thought was tonsilitis (Picture: Caters)

Five-year-old girl’s ‘tonsilitis’ was fatal blood disorder

UK December 10, 2019

Going down: Mr Schlussler lets gravity bring him down to earth (Picture: SWNS)

Riding high: construction worker builds a bike elevator for his tree house

UK December 10, 2019

***EXCLUSIVE *** LINCOLNSHIRE - UNITED KINGDOM - UNDATED: Alison Abruneiras, founder of Nail and Beauty Emporium, at OleOle, her tapas restaurant, in The Bailgate in Lincolnshire, England. A FORMER nail technician has become the MD of a company grossing more than one million pounds a year ñ after becoming addicted to eBay. Alison Abruneiras left school with no qualifications and was earning as little as £70 a week until breast cancer forced her to stop working altogether. But after logging on to eBay on her home computer as a fun ëhobbyí to earn a bit of extra cash, sheís become a hugely successful entrepreneur. Today the married mum-of-three, from Lincoln, uses the site to sell products for her cosmetic retail business, the Nail and Beauty Emporium. In just SIX years, the company has expanded to trade in nine countries around the world. And Alison, 46, has expanded to take on a warehouse as well as four staff ñ including her 22-year-old daughter, Coralia, who is set to take over the business. PHOTOGRAPH BY John Robertson / Barcroft Media UK Office, London. T +44 845 370 2233 W www.barcroftmedia.com USA Office, New York City. T +1 212 796 2458 W www.barcroftusa.com Indian Office, Delhi. T +91 11 4053 2429 W www.barcroftindia.com

Cancer survivor makes £1m after turning to eBay

UK December 10, 2019

PIC BY JAMES HAGGERTY / CATERS NEWS (PICTURED: C-3PO MOSAIC MADE FROM STAPLES) - An artist has painstakingly created these portraits of Star Wars characters using tens of thousands of STAPLES. James Haggertys unique artwork, each requiring meticulous patience and organisation, take more than six months and up to 33,000 individual staples to complete. Star Wars fanatic James, from Brooklyn in New York, USA, has so far created portraits of Darth Vader, Greedo, and C-3PO. He realised the potential of staples as an artistic medium while casually relaxing and playing with an old stapler and decided to focus on Star Wars based mosaics, given his liking for the George Lucas Hollywood classics. SEE CATERS COPY

Star Wars: The stapler strikes back

Weird December 10, 2019

Touching tribute: A handwritten message left by a pupil (Picture: Getty)

Teacher's classroom killing sparks row over school safety

UK December 10, 2019

Ledge-ends: Yaroslav Segeda’s toes peek over the edge of a ledge at the top of a towering building under construction in Kiev, Ukraine (Picture: Yaroslav Segeda/Caters)

Don't look down! Meet the 'skywalkers' scaling dizzying heights

UK December 10, 2019