Video: Come pet the meerkat

Hundred-year-old Edith McHugh, of York, fulfilled a lifetime's ambition yesterday when she visited a Yorkshire agricultural college's animal management unit to see their new baby meerkat.

Mrs McHugh's family contacted Askham Bryan College, near York, after reading of the new arrival in the media.

Mrs McHugh has always been fascinated by meerkats but has never seen one before. The college has four meerkats and yesterday she was introduced to baby Adia, who was born in August, along with her parents Hattie and Bertie and brother Billy.

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