SAD news, reported in The Independent newspaper, that Hamish the cat adopted by a Scottish town, has died at the age of 15.

Hamish belonged to Marianne Baird but was so popular in St Andrew's that, according to The Independent: “He had many homes, from student flats to shop windows. His ginger fur could be witnessed on coats across the town with many visitors, students and residents stopping to give the tom cat a cuddle.”