TWO maternity hospital doctors in Bristol were called in to carry out Britain's first caesarean birth....of a gorilla.

The Daily Mirror reports that Professor David Cahill and Dr Aamna Ali performed the operation on 11 year old mother Kera, who was suffering from life-threatening pre-eclampsia.

BRITAIN'S Flying Scotsman train has been voted the best-known locomotive in the world.

The Daily Mirror reports that, in a survey commissioned by the National Railway Museum and carried out across four continents, people were asked to name five trains or engines they had heard of.