Junior doctor has unique ‘side hustle’ as professional mermaid

A junior doctor has a rather unique “side hustle” - being a professional mermaid.

Yasmin Awan, 28, works day-to-day in the major trauma unit at Aintree Hospital, Liverpool, but is also qualified mermaid after first taking an interest six years ago.

Whenever her rota allows, she performs at children’s parties and weddings.

Ms Awan, who also goes by the mermaid name Athena Storm, runs the business with her best friend.

She has swum with sharks in aquariums using a monofin and hopes to visit the Maldives to swim with whale sharks.