A hardy goldfish - thought to be one of the oldest in the UK at 22 - has miraculously survived a health scare and an encounter with a sausage roll to continue to thrive in a family home.
Nicol Arathoon says Sparky is "part of the furniture" and she'd be "lost without" the pet. She bought him in a plastic bag at her local garden centre in 2001 along with another goldfish, which died the very next day.
But even when Sparky fell ill in April, he battled to survive and "amaze" 38-year-old Nicol, whose even had a picture of the fish tattooed on her arm.
