:00:08. > :00:13.Jenny here live with all the big stories this morning, including:
:00:14. > :00:20.THE SPEAKER: We check out the cheese rolling race in Gloucestershire, and
:00:21. > :00:28.find out who could be on the verge of becoming the new boss at Spurs.
:00:29. > :00:31.Farmers in areas severely affected by the UK's winter flooding say it
:00:32. > :00:34.could be years before their land fully recovers.
:00:35. > :00:36.Fields in Somerset were devastated by the extreme weather.
:00:37. > :00:39.Crops and grass for cows to eat should be growing
:00:40. > :00:43.But farmers say the wet conditions are making that difficult, as well
:00:44. > :00:46.as helping harmful weeds like buttercups grow on their fields.
:00:47. > :00:52.It is like a mat, and it makes the cows have diarrhoea.
:00:53. > :00:57.If we are lucky, we will be getting back to normal
:00:58. > :01:06.A stand-off between Ukranin soldiers and pro-Russian forces is currently
:01:07. > :01:13.Armed groups who want Russia to have more control across Ukraine,
:01:14. > :01:18.But the Ukrainian government's sent helicopters and fighter jets
:01:19. > :01:21.and is thought to have taken control of some parts of the airport back.
:01:22. > :01:24.Ukraine's newly elected president, Petro Poroshenko, says he wants to
:01:25. > :01:38.Now, Poppy here might seem like your average pet,
:01:39. > :01:41.She's just got herself into the Guinness World Records
:01:42. > :01:51.The latest model of a mobile phone looked like this.
:01:52. > :01:54.the first internet web The Hubble telescope was launched into space.
:01:55. > :01:57.And pop star Madonna was topping the charts.
:01:58. > :02:01.It was also the year Poppy was born, and at 24, she's just been crowned
:02:02. > :02:06.Poppy lives here with proud owners the West family.
:02:07. > :02:20.To celebrate her birthday, we made a cat food cake.
:02:21. > :02:26.How does it feel to have the world's oldest cat?
:02:27. > :02:45.The average life of a cat is 15 years.
:02:46. > :02:48.At nine years older than that, Poppy's achievement is very
:02:49. > :02:51.In fact, she's older than the members of Little Mix,
:02:52. > :02:56.And since Poppy was born in February 1990, she's seen five different
:02:57. > :02:59.In human years, Poppy is even older than 24.
:03:00. > :03:02.Experts generally agree the first two years of a cat's life are equal
:03:03. > :03:07.After that, every three months count for a year.
:03:08. > :03:09.This makes Poppy a mighty 114 years old.
:03:10. > :03:11.The oldest cat of all time was 38-year-old
:03:12. > :03:20.So Poppy has a bit of time to go before breaking that record.
:03:21. > :03:28.But I still think 24 years is something worth celebrating.
:03:29. > :03:31.A massive bog the size of England has been discovered
:03:32. > :03:39.It contains billions of tonnes of peat which is thousands of years
:03:40. > :03:42.old. Scientists spent three weeks
:03:43. > :03:45.studying the area in the Republic They had to contend with crocodiles,
:03:46. > :03:48.gorillas and elephants, but said the It was incredibly surprising to
:03:49. > :03:55.find an area the size of England We went there knowing almost
:03:56. > :04:01.nothing about it apart from what In sport, Spurs could be on the
:04:02. > :04:11.verge of making Southampton manager The Argentine took the Saints to 8th
:04:12. > :04:16.in the Premier League last season. Spurs want him to replace
:04:17. > :04:31.Tim Sherwood, And find out which Premier League
:04:32. > :04:32.stunner is struggling to be fit to play against England at the World
:04:33. > :04:37.Cup. And finally to the cheese-chasing
:04:38. > :04:39.champ who doesn't like cheese. Yesterday saw thousands of people
:04:40. > :04:42.take part in Gloucestershire's The official event was scrapped four
:04:43. > :04:46.years ago because it was too dangerous, but these guys put
:04:47. > :04:48.on an unofficial version. Winner Josh admitted afterwards he
:04:49. > :04:51.doesn't actually like the stuff. And you can see more amazing
:04:52. > :04:55.pictures of the cheese-rolling