A 91-year-old farmer is back on his tractor after undergoing Merseyside's first robotic surgery.
Great-grandad Owen John Thomas was one of the first patients to have a knee replaced using a robotic surgery assistant at Spire Murrayfield hospital on the Wirral. The hospital is the first in the Wirral and Liverpool area to offer the cutting-edge robotic technology which helps surgeons plan and perform personalised bone cuts.
The 91-year-old dairy farmer is now acting as he did 20 years ago, according to his son, Tudor. The 66-year-old said: "It was miraculous how well he actually felt afterwards.
