A slice of the Queen’s 68-year-old wedding cake has sold for £500 at auction.
The fruit cake, still wrapped in its original baking parchment, was one of the portions given to guests following the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947.
It comes with its original ivory-coloured box decorated with a silver E and P and the words “Buckingham Palace 20th November 1947”, as well as a small card inscribed “With the best wishes of their Royal Highnesses Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh”.
‘Cycling best way to get to work’
Cycling could be the answer to arriving at work with a spring in your step, according to new research from Aviva.
In a study of 2,000 working adults, more than half of those who cycle to work said they arrive refreshed after their commute.
Just 1 in 10 car and bus users claimed the same thing and that figure dropped to 1 in 20 for train and Tube passengers.
Communting takes a year of life
The average British commuter will spend the equivalent of one year and 35 days of their working lives getting to and from the office, according to research.
Workers spend around £42,000 getting to and from work and travel 191,760 miles over their lifetimes, the study by Get Living London claims.
Some 52% of the 2,000 people surveyed said they were irked by long traffic jams, while 26% complained about constant delays on transport networks.
Cannonball is found in garden
The Atlantic City bomb squad was dispatched to a southern New Jersey home over the weekend after a man dug up a live cannonball in his garden.
Police said the brass-capped cannonball was approximately 5in in circumference and was stamped “4k, 85mm”.
The bomb squad took an X-ray of the device and determined it was fully functional. The cannonball was later detonated in an unpopulated area.
Lucky find nets $1m lottery win
A man has won one million US dollars in the California Lottery after buying a ticket with money he found at an airport.
Hubert Tang, from the San Francisco Bay area, had not bought a ticket in 10 years, according to lottery officials. When he found a US 20 dollar bill on the street outside San Francisco International Airport last week, he used it to buy two scratch-off tickets.
One of them led to the million-dollar top prize. Mr Tang, who works as a barman, plans to save the money for now. He added he may begin leaving money on the street in random places to spread his good fortune.
Hand saved after sewn to belly
An 87-year-old Texas man had an unusual surgery to save a hand that was badly burned in an accident: Doctors sewed his hand to his belly and left it under a pocket of tissue for three weeks to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply.
Frank Reyes recently had a second operation at Houston Methodist Hospital to remove his hand, and doctors are hopeful he will regain the ability to do most everyday tasks.
Mr Reyes’ burn was too deep, down to the bones, to allow a traditional skin graft. Surgeries like his, temporarily attaching one body part to another, are also used on the battlefield, in trauma situations and in research as a way to incubate lab-grown body parts.