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After surviving a two-week ordeal trapped in her owner’s car engine, lucky black cat ­Princess peers out at her stunned rescuers.

Julie Tansley was driving the streets searching for her missing moggy and was oblivious to her plight until a dashboard warning light came on.

She lifted the BMW’s bonnet to investigate and was amazed to find Princess, who had triggered the alert by chewing through the coolant hose.

Mum-of-three Julie, 40, said: “I have absolutely no idea how she managed to get there.

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“It’s just ­unbelievable – I mean we’ve driven to and from school, work, even through the jet wash with her in there. If the warning light hadn’t come on I dread to think what could have happened.”

It took a mechanic friend 45 minutes to free the six-year-old cat, which had lost weight and was covered in coolant fluid but otherwise unharmed.

But Julie, from Kinoulton, near Nottingham, said she had been left with a hefty repair bill.

She added: “It has cost just over £300 to replace that hose, so it’s an expensive way to travel having your cat with you.”