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Pet Care Dog owners can now take their pets and cars for a quick shampoo, rinse and blow-dry at a garage in Kent. Britain's first dog-wash, at Wrotham Heath filling station, allows visitors to wash their car and pup in one journey. The dog cleaner is situated next to the huge drive-through brushes and consists of a stainless steel tank in which you can stand a dog while you shampoo it. A jet shower removes the soap and then a high-powered blower is on hand to dry the animal off.

Shoot the hoop A new Lego NBA Basketball range was introduced last week. In it are all the top US basketball players, in a finger flicking Lego version. ‘The hardest part was finding out a way for the Lego figures to pick up and throw the ball. It took 12 months to crack, but we finally made it’, explains Lego designer Erik Legerness. In future there will also be a Lego Ice hockey range, so look out for them too!

WOOF JUSTICE A woman has been banned from driving after steering her car along a busy road with 27 passengers…all of them dogs! Police were called when Barbara Byrne’s dog-packed Renault was spotted making dangerous moves on the A1. The dogs’ breath had steamed up the side and rear windows of her car. When Barbara, 60, finally pulled over, the police had to back away because of the smell. In court, she refused to admit any wrongdoing and said she was only taking her pets to the beach for a walk.

TEKST 7 Superwoman saves boy 1 Lisa Hodgkinson, 29, from top of Luke and I somehow managed to Cheshire, saved the life of a seven- push it off him. I still don't know how year-old boy after she found the I did it, I think nature just took over. He strength to free him from under a one- had stopped breathing, so I gave him ton car. The boy, Luke Archer, from the mouth-to-mouth. I then supported Manchester, was walking near his his head until the ambulance arrived." home, when he suddenly ran in front of 3 Luke was taken to the Royal a BMW 318. The boy got under the Manchester Children's hospital, where front wheels of he underwent a the car, which five-hour shocked the operation. He driver so much had broken both that he was arms and a leg, unable to take and had lots of his foot off the cuts and bruises brake. all over his 2 Lisa had left body. He could work to buy a leave hospital sandwich when after a couple of she saw the accident. She immediately weeks and the doctors expect him to rushed over to help the badly injured make a full recovery.

TOP TREEHOUSE Generous granddad Martin Rossiter, from Macclesfield, had a treehouse built for his grandchildren – costing £35,000! The top-of-the-range two-storey treehouse has a series of rope walkways between some oak and pine trees in Martin’s garden and took builders five days to make. He now plans to add running water and electricity to make it a perfect playhouse. “It looks like something out of a film set.” says Martin. “The grandchildren love it.” Martin has 12 grandchildren aged from 2 to 12 – but the rest of his family believe he secretly made the house for himself! “Perhaps it has something to do with the boy scout in me,” he laughs.

GLORIOUS MUD Racing through slimy black mud, mixed with ice-cold water is not every athlete’s dream, but each year the annual Maldon Mud Race attracts many enthusiasts. The New Year charity event saw 150 people trying to cross the river Blackwater, in Essex, at low tide. They have to wade or swim through waist-high water and then 200 metres of deep mud before making their way back across the river. A crowd of thousands watched Richard Jones, 29, cross the finishing line first in a time of six minutes.

Mahogany motor Despite the rainy summer, there’s one car which will never go rusty – because its outer shell is made entirely of wood! The amazing vehicle took carpenter Frank Knocks over two years to create. He used a technique known to boat builders as “cold moulding” to create the shell. Thin strips of mahogany were stuck together and laid over a mould to set in the correct shape.