Two paintings by gangster Reggie Kray have been sold at auction.
The pair of Norfolk oil landscapes went under the hammer alongside a Roberts radio that he used in his prison cell.
Kray completed the paintings while he was in Wayland Prison in Norfolk.
The lot fetched £1,200 (€1,450) at Arthur Johnson and Sons auctioneers in Nottingham.
Twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray were responsible for much of the organised crime in London in the 1950s and 1960s. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1969. Reggie died in 2000 after a short period of compassionate release from prison, five years after his brother died in Broadmoor. (PA)
Mormon bishop goes incognito
Members of a Mormon congregation encountered someone they thought was a homeless man at a Utah church – little realising that he was a bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
At least five people asked David Musselman to leave the church property in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville, some gave him money and most were indifferent.
He said he disguised himself as a homeless man to teach his congregation a lesson about compassion. He even asked a make-up artist to transform his face to that of a stranger not even his family recognised. (PA)
Sea eagle snatches video camera
A bird snatched a video camera that was recording crocodiles in north west Australia and took it on a cross-country journey.
Wildlife rangers in the remote Kimberley region released footage that reveals the sea eagle’s flapping wings as it grabs the device and soars across the landscape. The eagle later poses for a selfie, poking its face into the camera lens.
The camera was found near a river about 100 kilometres from where it vanished. The footage inside revealed the real culprit. (PA)
Creating music for the deaf
Holly Maniatty creates music – for the deaf. The woman from near Portland, Maine, uses dance moves and body language to bring musical performances alive for those who cannot hear.
Her clients are a who’s who of rock, pop and hip-hop: Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Mumford and Sons, Jay-Z, Billy Joel, Marilyn Manson, U2, Beastie Boys and Wu-Tang Clan, to name a few and her videos of her fast-motion, helter-skelter signing have become popular online.
To prepare for concerts and festivals, she studies the musicians for whom she’ll be signing. She learns their lyrics, their dialect, their every move. (PA)
Flanders soil in memorial garden
Soil from the World War I battlefields of Flanders has been blessed and added to a memorial garden in London which will mark next year’s 100th anniversary of the start of the conflict.
Seventy sandbags of “sacred soil” arrived in London and were taken by gun carriage from HMS Belfast to Wellington Barracks, where the Flanders Field Memorial Garden is being created.
The 1.5 ton carriage of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by six colour matched black Irish Draught horses, crossed Tower Bridge, and went through the heart of the capital escorted by mounted troops.
The soil was blessed at the Guards’ Chapel before pouring samples taken from all the battlefields into the heart of the garden. (AP)