Artist Sir Peter Blake is to appear on a record sleeve, after years of creating striking images for artists such as The Beatles, The Who and Oasis.

Sir Peter will feature on a new edition of Madness’s most recent album, Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja, Ja, Da, Da.

The 80-year-old artist is seen as Moses as he lines up with the rest of the band in fancy dress on the sleeve for the special edition of the album, which comes out in April. The veteran artist is best-known for creating the collage cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sleeve for The Beatles in 1967.

Madness are to play a special concert outside the BBC’s TV Centre in west London as the corporation leaves the building for good. The concert will be screened by BBC4 and will include hits such as One Step Beyond, Baggy Trousers and Our House. (AP)

Foxes become a nuisance

A British motorist has had to start wrapping her car in chicken wire to keep foxes from vandalising the vehicle, it is reported.

Jeanna Emerson, of Lancing, West Sussex, thought vandals were to blame after six separate attacks, but when police were called in it was found that the culprits were foxes, who liked the sweet taste of brake fluid, the Sunday Mirror said.

“Foxes still sit looking at the car, but they haven’t got through the wire yet,” the 55-year-old told the paper. (PA)

Adolf Hitler for election

Adolf Hitler is running for election in India. So is Frankenstein. The names are on the ballot paper in the tiny north-eastern state of Meghalaya where there is a fascination for unusual names.

Hitler, a 54-year-old father of three, has won three elections to the state assembly and has travelled the world, including to Germany, without problems. His father had worked with the British army, but named him after the Nazi dictator. (PA)

Winehouse ex has regrets

Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband has told of his regrets at introducing her to hard drugs – but has claimed her addiction worsened when they were apart.

Blake Fielder-Civil said the two of them spent only four months in which they were taking drugs together as “addicts”, due to his spells in jail. He spoke in an emotional interview as a guest on ITV’s Jeremy Kyle Show in which he told of his tears and disbelief when prison staff told him Winehouse had died.

Fielder-Civil – who was married to the singer for two years – said of their heroin and crack use: “Out of maybe a six or seven-year relationship that me and Amy had on and off, there was drug use for about four months together.”

Fielder-Civil claimed he had been free from drugs for over a year. (AP)

Air mail across the border

Police in the Mexican border city of Mexicali have found a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a fence into California. It was made of a plastic pipe and a crude metal tank that used compressed air from the engine of an old car.

The apparatus fired cylinders packed with drugs that weighed as much as 13.6kg. (PA)