FOR many of us it would take at least a week at a health farm to gain a new lease of life. But a night in a fridge ?

Most of us would probably give the idea the cold shoulder, but one Blackpool pensioner has done just that and is fighting fit after his chilling ordeal.

Don't worry. The pensioner in question is not a human, but an 80-year-old lobster, scooped from the icy depths off Barrow by scuba diver Gary Jones.

Not wanting to consign his catch to dish of the day, Gary rang the Blackpool Sea Life Centre who told him to keep it somewhere cool overnight.

Gary found the biggest plastic container he could, cleared a shelf in the fridge and tucked his guest in for the night.

Sea Life aquarist Ashley Ball said: "I was surprised when Gary plucked the lobster out of his fridge, but he seemed none the worse for his night on ice.

"Luckily, lobsters are adapted to survive the extremely cold temperatures which our seas can drop to in winter and he would probably have been okay in there for a couple of days."

The lobster is now in the Sea Life Centre alongside another crustacean called Rocky - a refugee from Fleetwood fish market - and has been christened Rambo.

Rocky and Rambo have been placed side by side and have already come to blows.

"There was a bit of posturing over who got the plum hiding place beneath our sunken rowing boat," said Ashley. "But Rocky was there first and he is bigger than Rambo."

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