27/05/2014

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: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.