A South Tyneside hairdresser has said hailed her dog a hero for "saving her life" after she jumped on her stomach and alerted her to her ovarian cancer.
Tess Robison, 41, from South Shields said her chihuahua Lola was acting strangely for weeks becoming "more clingy than usual" and constantly smelling her breath.
Then one day Lola jumped on her stomach causing quite a bit of pain and just two days later a lump appeared which prompted Tess to go to her GP and get checked out.
