:00:00. > :00:00.Jenny here live with all the big stories this morning, including:
:00:07. > :00:09.The discovery of a giant bog that's the size of England.
:00:10. > :00:13.And we meet the world's oldest living cat.
:00:14. > :00:23.First to the troubled region of Donetsk in Ukraine where a
:00:24. > :00:25.stand-off between Ukranin soldiers and pro-Russian forces is currently
:00:26. > :00:31.Armed groups who want Russia to have more control across Ukraine,
:00:32. > :00:37.But the Ukrainian government's sent helicopters and fighter jets
:00:38. > :00:41.and is thought to have taken control of some parts of the airport back.
:00:42. > :00:44.Ukraine's newly elected president, Petro Poroshenko, says he wants to
:00:45. > :01:01.Farmers in areas severely affected by the UK's winter flooding say it
:01:02. > :01:04.could be years before their land fully recovers.
:01:05. > :01:06.Fields in Somerset were devastated by the extreme weather.
:01:07. > :01:09.Crops and grass for cows to eat should be growing
:01:10. > :01:13.But farmers say the wet conditions are making that difficult, as well
:01:14. > :01:25.as helping harmful weeds like buttercups grow on their fields.
:01:26. > :01:36.It is like a mat, and it makes the cows have diarrhoea. If we are
:01:37. > :01:42.lucky, we will be getting back to normal by the end of next year.
:01:43. > :01:45.A massive bog the size of England has been discovered
:01:46. > :01:49.Scientists spent three weeks studying the area in the Republic
:01:50. > :01:53.They had to contend with crocodiles, gorillas and elephants, but said the
:01:54. > :01:57.The bog contains billions of tonnes of peat,
:01:58. > :02:01.They say it will allow us to learn more about how
:02:02. > :02:13.It was incredibly surprising to find an area the size of England that is
:02:14. > :02:16.essentially uncharted. We went there knowing almost nothing about it
:02:17. > :02:20.apart from what we could see by satellites.
:02:21. > :02:23.Now, Poppy here might seem like your average pet,
:02:24. > :02:26.She's just got herself into the Guinness World Records
:02:27. > :02:42.The latest model of a mobile phone looked like this.
:02:43. > :02:44.The Hubble telescope was launched into space.
:02:45. > :02:46.And pop star Madonna was topping the charts.
:02:47. > :02:50.It was also the year Poppy was born, and at 24, she's just been crowned
:02:51. > :02:54.Poppy lives here with proud owners the West family.
:02:55. > :03:04.She is very bony, very old. She is sleepy. To celebrate her birthday,
:03:05. > :03:11.we made a cat food cake. It was this big. How does it feel to have the
:03:12. > :03:17.world's oldest cat? I think it is really good. I've got the oldest cat
:03:18. > :03:22.alive. The average life
:03:23. > :03:25.of a cat is 15 years. At nine years older than that,
:03:26. > :03:27.Poppy's achievement is very In fact, she's older than
:03:28. > :03:31.the members of Little Mix, And since Poppy was born in February
:03:32. > :03:35.1990, she's seen five different In human years,
:03:36. > :03:38.Poppy is even older than 24. Experts generally agree the first
:03:39. > :03:42.two years of a cat's life are equal After that, every three
:03:43. > :03:46.months count for a year. This makes Poppy
:03:47. > :03:50.a mighty 114 years old. The oldest cat
:03:51. > :03:53.of all time was 38-year-old So Poppy has a bit of time to
:03:54. > :04:01.go before breaking that record. But I still think 24 years is
:04:02. > :04:13.something worth celebrating. Sport,
:04:14. > :04:19.and with less than three weeks till the start of the World Cup, one
:04:20. > :04:26.Premier League player who could have Liverpool's Luis Suarez is
:04:27. > :04:29.struggling with a bad knee and it was thought surgery
:04:30. > :04:32.on the injury had ruled him out. But Uruguay's team doctor
:04:33. > :04:35.says he may still make it. Uruguay play England
:04:36. > :04:38.in the group stages of Brazil 2014. And finally to the cheese-chasing
:04:39. > :04:40.champ who doesn't like cheese. Yesterday saw thousands of people
:04:41. > :04:43.take part in Gloucestershire's The official event was scrapped four
:04:44. > :04:47.years ago because it was too dangerous, but these guys put
:04:48. > :04:49.on an unofficial version. Winner Josh admitted afterwards he
:04:50. > :04:56.doesn't actually like the stuff. Newsround's back right here in
:04:57. > :05:00.about half an hour.