A village church on sale for £50,000 (€59,000) looks like it could make an ideal home, but there is one catch – the garden is a graveyard.

The 13th century St Peter’s in Staverton, Wiltshire, is being sold by the Diocese of Salisbury after congregations dwindled.

Bids are being invited from developers to convert the Grade II-listed building into a private home.

It boasts stained glass windows, a nave and vestry – but any buyer would not own the graves and under a covenant, they would have to allow funerals as well as letting mourners have access to the graves, according to the Daily Express. (PA)

Elizabeth I miniature to go on show

A previously unknown postcard-sized painting of Queen Elizabeth I will go on show in a new exhibition later this year.

The work, thought to be by miniaturist Isaac Oliver, was discovered during a house clearance and eventually bought by the National Portrait Gallery. It is a reworking of the classical story of the Judgment of Paris upon the goddesses of marriage, war and love with the Queen taking the place of Paris.

It will form part of the gallery’s exhibition Elizabeth I And Her People, which will run from October to January. The exhibition will include other portraits of the queen, as well as costumes, coins and jewellery from her time on the throne. (AP)

Toddler climbs ladder to hotel roof

A toddler has been rescued after climbing a ladder on to the roof of a hotel.

By the time Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service crews had reached the Tree Hotel in Iffley, Oxford, a passer-by and the child’s mother had also clambered on to the roof. All three were walked down with the assistance of the firefighters.

The two-year-old had got on to the flat roof of the hotel’s extension, at least seven feet high, and then reached the pitched main roof from there. The ladder was being used by a workman who had briefly gone inside to fetch tools. (PA)

McCartney is hit by performing bug

Sir Paul McCartney has swapped Beatles for grasshoppers – after a stage invasion by a swarm of the creatures.

The star managed to complete his performance despite being buzzed by a cloud of the insects as he played on stage in Brazil.

Animal-lover Sir Paul carried on for almost three hours in Goiania as he remained unfazed by the grasshoppers, which even landed on him during the show.

One remained on his shoulder for much of the show and the musician introduced his new pal to the 47,000-strong crowd as Harold. (AP)