Chip shop owners Chris and Nicki Christoforou have hit on a unique way of utilising the unsold fish that would have been binned at the end of each day.

They’ve opened a cattery.

Nicki, who runs the feline business, Alvechurch’s Top Cat Hotel, takes the unsold food from the couple’s two businesses – Hollywood Fish bar in Wythall, and Flakes at Moseley, Birmingham.

Some think it’s strange using fish from the shops but some of the owners have their cats on even stranger dietary regimes. Nicki Christoforou

Nicki and Chris drew up the business plan two years ago.

The hotel can house 100 cats and a penthouse suite has recently been created, boasting a cat gym.