A football club is crowdfunding a huge Dambusters design on one of its stands in a bid to help re-finance a £380,000 bank loan.

Lincoln City FC is about to launch its fundraising campaign turning a 5,681-seater stand into a vast mosaic bearing the image of a Second World War Lancaster bomber soaring above the historic cathedral city’s skyline.

It comes as the club seeks to pay off a loan with The Co-Operative Bank, which is calling in its debt.

Chef creates a very pricey pasty

A chef is creating a luxurious Cornish pasty costing £230 using beef flown in from Japan, peppercorns from India and potatoes from Illinois, US.

Richard Shaw, who runs Southwick Village Stores in Hampshire, is hoping his creation called the Very Important Pasty will now win the World Pasty Championships being held at the Eden Project in Cornwall.

The 33-year-old said his ingredients, including Japanese Wagu beef, have travelled a total of 11,300 air miles to reach his kitchen.

Treasury boss has a pile of dough

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander presided over dough of a different kind as he launched the search for Scottish Baker of the Year.

The Highlands MP joined football commentator Archie Mac­pherson in Nairn where they marked the official start to this year’s competition by trying their hand at icing cup cakes.

Their hosts, Ashers Bakery, scooped the title in 2014 when more than 20,000 members of the public voted to select Scotland’s best cakes, scones and biscuits.

Snow survivor buried three hours

A New Hampshire man has survived being buried in the snow for more than three hours.

Drew Mullins says he was using a snow rake to clear snow off the metal roof of his Peterborough home when it came down all at once and within seconds. Mullins was trapped under about two feet of snow. He says his heavy breathing caused the snow above his head to melt to the point where he could get some air.

Mullins’s wife had left shortly before the accident. When she returned three-and-a-half hours later, she says she heard his muffled cries for help.

She found him and called 911. It took first responders about 20 minutes to dig Mullins out before he was taken to a hospital and treated for exposure.

Passport emergency for skier

German police say they helped American skier Lindsey Vonn get to Bulgaria for a World Cup event after she forgot her passport in Austria.

Munich airport police say Vonn realised after arriving for a flight to Sofia that she had left her passport in Salzburg, more than one-and-a-half hours away.

They say officers at the airport issued an emergency travel document for the 30-year-old American that allowed her to take her flight. A World Cup super-G and a combined event will be held in Bansko, Bulgaria, this weekend.

Sky sightings as rocket burns up

People from Arizona to Canada have reported seeing bright lights in the sky as a Chinese rocket burned up in the atmosphere.

Witnesses described the lights as a group of about three dozen fireballs moving slowly north. Canadian photographer Neil Zeller says it looked like a cluster of fireballs followed by a long orange tail.

Major Martin O’Donnell, of US Strategic Command said the lights were a Chinese rocket booster that re-entered the atmosphere and broke apart about 11pm local time.

He says the rocket that launched a satellite in December was not abnormally large, but re-entry angles and weather can make things look brighter.

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