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Rail bosses have made a cat their chief of customer relations at a busy station.

Loveable Paul has been charming staff and customers for 10 years.

The Bengal – named after actor Paul Newman – began dropping into the station when he was a kitten. He now visits daily.

Paul can be found most days curled up on a wheelchair near the platforms.

Merseyrail staff are now welcoming him to their team officially – with a job title – because he puts smiles on the faces of all who see him.

Station assistant Allan Rowe said: “Staff are thrilled to make Paul chief of customer relations because he deserves it – he is a well-natured cat and we all love him.

“He’s very friendly and likes all the attention. Sometimes he sits in very unhelpful places in the middle of the floor, but people just stop and pet him.

“If the attention gets too much for him he wanders off to one of his many hidey holes throughout the station.”

Paul does have a home around the corner from Liverpool South Parkway, but spends his days there.

Allan, 23, from Woolton, Liverpool, added: “The first year he started coming to the station his owners kept trying to take him back. Staff didn’t mind him and we’ve welcomed him as one of our own.

“I’ve heard that his owners have several cats, all with different celebrity names.

“But Paul doesn’t get on with those cats too well, which is why he hangs out elsewhere.”

Paul is now a local celebrity and has amassed 3,000 likes on his Facebook page.

Cat lovers even make special visits to the station so that they can meet him.

Allan added: “When he’s sat on the ticket gates, some people even show him their tickets.”