Dozens of druids yesterday attended a colourful protest outside the new £27 million visitor centre at Stonehenge on the day of its opening.

Protesters travelled from as far as Holland and Scotland to call for English Heritage to rebury remains on display at the Wiltshire monument’s new exhibition.

The group who were dressed in flowing robes, held signs calling for tourists to boycott the popular site, banged on drums and sang songs about their ancestors.

Their protest was seen by hundreds of tourists who filed into the new facilities.

Thieves go for risky substance

A shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 was finally safely recovered after sitting in a Mexican cornfield where it was found when truck thieves dumped it a fort-night ago.

A robot was used to scoop up the dangerous material and deposit it in a safe container for transporting to a nuclear waste treat-ment plant.

It came from obsolete medical equipment used in radiation therapy, which was being transported in a truck that was stolen at gunpoint at a filling station in Hidalgo state.

Spare hand

Students in the US have created a robot arm that can help people carry up to 40lb loads.

The Titan Arm is essentially a battery-powered brace attached to a backpack.

Its designers at the University of Penn-sylvania say it has the potential to prevent in-juries in workers whose jobs require repetitive heavy lifting.

Facebook distraction

A tourist in Australia fell off a pier while browsing Facebook on her phone.

The woman was walking along a bay in Melbourne when she became distracted by her Facebook feed and plummeted off the pier.

Police pulled her out and said she managed to hang on to her phone throughout the ordeal.