A 52-year-old classic car with one careful lady owner and only 20 miles on the clock is expected to fetch between £12,000 and £15,000 (€17,830) at auction.
The rare Triumph Herald is virtually brand new and still has its original 1961 tax disc on its windscreen.
It is set to go under the hammer in Norfolk along with two Triumph Dolomites, each with about 80 miles on the clock, and a 1960 Triumph Herald which has done 3,750 miles. They are part of a private collection being sold by East Anglian Motor Auctions in Wymondham.
The auction takes place at midday on Saturday. (PA)
Kept on hold with Mozart
His compositions have regularly topped classic music charts and opinion polls but Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has also been heralded as the king of council hold music.
A Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request by the Press Association to 150 councils showed more authorities selected the Austrian composer’s work over any other artist to keep taxpayers hanging on the telephone. The findings came as no surprise to Mozart expert professor Colin Lawson, director of the Royal College of Music.
He said: “I think the real reason is Mozart can be listened to at so many different levels. He is at the top of the classical charts regularly. The Mozart phenomenon is an extraordinary thing.” (PA)
Snake is unwanted passenger
A small snake found on a Qantas Boeing 747 airliner led to 370 passengers being grounded in Sydney overnight.
Staff found the eight-inch unidentified snake in the passenger cabin near the door before passengers were due to board at Sydney International Airport for a flight to Tokyo.
Australia’s flagship airline said the passengers were accommodated in hotels overnight and left Sydney on a replacement plane. The snake was taken by quarantine officials for analysis. (PA)
Wipes may be toilet problem
Bathroom wipes – pre-moistened tissues that are often advertised as flushable – are being blamed for creating clogs and backups in America’s sewer systems.
Water firms say the wipes may go down the toilet, but even many labelled flushable are not quickly breaking down which is costing millions of dollars in extra work unclogging pipes and pumps and replacing machinery.
Manufacturers insist wipes labelled flushable are not the problem, pointing instead to things like paper towels, feminine hygiene products and baby wipes clearly marked as non-flushable. (PA)
Pussy Riot girl on hunger strike
One of the jailed members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot has begun a hunger strike in protest at harsh working conditions and threats to her life.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is serving a two-year sentence for making a brief, unauthorised performance in Moscow’s main Orthodox cathedral denouncing Vladimir Putin.
In a letter published on the group’s blog, Ms Tolokonnikova says inmates in her prison are forced to work up to 17 hours a day in a shop that makes police uniforms.
She also says the prison’s deputy warden threatened her last month. (AP)