John Major's Spitting Image puppet is up for sale.
Auction house Bonhams announced that the "grey man" puppet which poked fun at the Baroness Thatcher's successor at No. 10 is to go under the hammer next month.
The figure, along with that of wife Norma, is expected to fetch up to £3,500 at the sale of entertainment memorabilia on June 23.
The Majors were created for the satirical puppet show during the last Tory PM's final term of office.
In the show he was shown enjoying meals of peas in silence with his wife Norma and being mocked by the Downing Street cat. The puppet was made entirely in shades of grey. (PA)
Pensioner, 81, kills wife
An 81-year-old man has admitted strangling his wife of 59 years after he accused her of infidelity and she laughed at him.
Rudi Koos pleaded guilty to killing his 75-year-old wife, Waltrud, in their Philadelphia apartment in January.
Defence lawyer Frank Genovese said Mr Koos was remorseful and just snapped when he thought his wife of 59 years was cheating on him.
Mr Koos told police that after she laughed at him, they began arguing and he "lost it" and choked her.
Police said the couple had lived in the apartment since they emigrated from East Germany in 1957. (PA)
No thriller
A painting of Michael Jackson which the owner hoped would sell for millions has been withdrawn after failing to get a single bid.
The internet auction of the picture Jackson posed for is The Book, a 50-by-40-inch work by Australian artist Brett-Livingstone Strong.
The painting's owner, New York businessman Marty Abrams, anticipated the portrait would go for over three million dollars. (PA)
$266 million jackpot
An unidentified lottery player is sitting on a fortune after hitting the $266 million jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions draw.
Mega Millions officials said a one-dollar ticket with the six winning numbers - 9, 21, 31, 36, 43 and 8 - had been bought from a Los Angeles restaurant but the owner had not been identified.
The restaurant which sold the ticket will receive a half of one per cent of the winnings, roughly $1.3 million.
The winner can take a one-time payout or opt to an annual payment for 25 years. The jackpot in last Tuesday's draw was the eighth biggest in the history of the lottery, which is played in 38 states.
The odds of matching the winning numbers were one in 175,711,536. (AFP)
Spared jail for bending over
A man banned from wearing skirts at certain times yesterday avoided jail for breaching his Asbo (anti-social behaviour order) by deliberately bending over in front of his neighbours.
Peter Trigger was banned from wearing a skirt or showing bare legs on a school day between 8.30 a.m. and 10 a.m. and 2.45 p.m. and 4 p.m.
The order, handed to him in December 2008, also banned him from behaving in a manner which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to others.
Yesterday magistrates in Northampton Magistrates' Court found Mr Trigger guilty of breaching the Asbo by deliberately bending over in front of his neighbours early in the morning on December 16 last year, causing them harassment, alarm and distress. (PA)
Grim reminder
Visitors to Berlin can now tour the site where the Gestapo, SS and other Nazi agencies ran Adolf Hitler's dictatorship from 1933 to 1945.
Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit said a new exhibition centre illustrates that liberty, democracy and civil rights must be defended on a daily basis.
The exhibition documents how Hitler's security agencies tightly controlled the police state and how Germans dealt with the dark chapter of history in the aftermath of the Second World War. (PA)
Finally made it
A South Korean woman has finally succeeded in passing her driving test on her 960th attempt.
Cha Sa-soon passed a written exam on her 950th try last year after spending about £11,000, including application fees.
In South Korea, an aspiring driver must pass a written exam to get behind the wheel for a driving test. The 69-year-old failed several driving tests before finally passing on her 960th trip last month. (PA)