Former postmaster Gordon Moore, 75, outside his home in Ridsdale, Northumberland, who discovered his skull had grown back more than 50 years after a serious car crash, which left him needing a metal plate in his head (Image © Tom Wilkinson/PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Image © Tom Wilkinson/PA Wire/Press Association Images

The skull belonging to a Northumberland man involved in a car crash over 50 years ago has regenerated itself. Doctors made the discovery during an operation to treat an infection in Gordon Moore's head. They found his bone had grown back beneath the metal plate inserted after the accident. Click through the images below for more on this story.