Do Not Mess With Fish 132,

and you thought fish were fun!

former council official Jack Heathcote does as his cellar holds a secret, up until now very few knew about, unless you read it here in June 2010, the national newspapers have just caught up! but in case you missed it, Jack decided to make his cellar into the largest privately owned aquarium in Britain, so big that Jack has to dive in himself once a fortnight to clean it, Jack, who has been fascinated by fish since a trip to a Blackpool aquarium when he was ten years old, said, 'my hobby's not only taken over my life, it's taken over my home, but I love it!'

for the technical, in case you want to do this yourself, three of the walls of the tank are the foundation walls of the house and a large section of floor was removed by the bay window to allow access, downstairs a wall of glass has replaced the brick wall, Jack paid just £700 for the glass panels and £800 for the fibreglass lining, adding that the tank cost him £5,000 in total to build, the tank is an L-shape from front to back, meaning that the space immediately behind the bay window is 7ft deep, while the rest of the floor space is subdivided by a ledge that used to be the foundation for the window, just a pity I do not have a cellar here!