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World Service,5 mins

Looking after the world's oldest tortoise

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Joe Hollins is an English vet who, until recently, was the first permanent vet on the remote island of St Helena - a British territory in the southern Atlantic. His day job included looking after a 182-year-old tortoise called Jonathan.

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