Thousands of people flocked to Bristol over the weekend to see a unique outdoor art gallery.

As part of the second See No Evil event, graffiti artists from around the world were repainting Nelson Street all week with a total of 40 urban artists, including Mr Jago, Flying Fortress, Nychos and Mark Bode, using some 3,500 spray cans.

All but three of the vibrant images that transformed 22 of Bristol’s grey and derelict buildings last summer were painted over in shades of black and grey ahead of the festival.

The event is said to be the largest street project in the UK and last year projectors were brought in to help artists create graffiti on buildings up to 10 storeys high.

See No Evil has the support of the Arts Council, London 2012 Festival and Bristol City Council. It is part of the London 2012 Festival: a summer-long arts festival throughout the country to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Centenarian on world ‘tour’

A 106-year-old Japanese man has become the oldest person to have travelled around the world using public transport, a report has said.

Saburo Shochi has been recognised by Guinness World Records for his feat, which saw him travel through North America, Europe and Africa, the Mainichi daily newspaper said.

With dozens of his supporters hailing his return at Fukuoka airport in southwest Japan, the centenarian said with a big smile: “I will live more.”

The professor emeritus at Fukuoka University of Education started travelling frequently at the age of 99, giving lectures on child education and health in foreign countries, the Mainichi said. Shochi, who celebrated his 106th birthday on Thursday, said: “In my whole life, I have never said, ‘I’m tired’.”

Prisoner sends finger to minister

A French prisoner hacked off his own finger and sent it to Justice Minister Christiane Taubira in an attempt to accelerate his transfer to a different jail.

Tragically, the prisoner’s request had already been approved when the digit arrived at the justice ministry on Thursday, a spokesman said. “We were just waiting for a space to become free in the region requested.”

In one of France’s most celebrated cases of wrongful conviction, Roland Agret sent pieces of one of his fingers to the then justice minister in 1983 and 1984 in order to protest his innocence.

His 1970 conviction for complicity in a murder was quashed in 1985.

Mobile-phone throwing contest

A Finnish teenager has smashed the world record – and probably his phone – in this year’s annual mobile-phone throwing contest in Finland.

Eighteen-year-old Ere Karjalainen launched a phone the “amazing” distance of 101.46 metres. Second place went to South African Jeremy Gallop, who threw a phone 94.67 metres.

According to contest organisers, the competition offers mobile phone users a unique opportunity to “pay back all the frustrations and disappointments caused by these modern equipments.” Finland is the home of Nokia and is awash in obsolete phones.

The event has been held in Savonlinna since 2000.