A strand of Elvis Presley’s hair could be available for a snip. The single strand, which is displayed in the middle of a record and framed picture of ‘The King’, is up for grabs at an auction house.
Along with the item comes a letter from a man called Thomas Morgan, who claims to have been a friend of the singer’s hairdresser, Homer Gilleland.
Jim Railton, from the Northern Auction Centre in Wooler, Northumberland (picture), is confident of the item’s authenticity, saying: “It’s not something you come across every day and it’s here to be sold for whatever it makes on the day.”
Sucker tickles shopper’s fancy
A man in North Carolina sucked a woman’s toes at a Wal-Mart store after he convinced her he was a podiatry student and persuaded her to take off her shoes.
Detective Dennis Harris said the woman agreed to try on several pairs of shoes at the discount store in Lincolnton, and that at some point during the process, the man stuck her foot in his mouth.
Mr Harris said the man apparently tried the same thing at another Wal-Mart 15 miles away, where he told a woman he was conducting a survey on the feet of different races and nationalities. The second woman also agreed to take off her shoes, but left when the suspect asked her to remove her sock.
Swiss named cheese champion
A Swiss Emmentaler has won the title of 2014 World Championship Cheese in Wisconsin. Cheesemaker Gerard Sinnesberger took top honours for his Original Schweizer Rohmilch Emmentaler, a large format, big wheel Swiss cheese.
Out of possible 100 points, the Emmentaler scored 97.85 in the final round of judging. The cheese was one of 2,615 entries from 22 countries. An Austrian entry, called Erzherzog Johann, was second. Another Swiss entry, Gruyere AOP, was third.
Hulk inspires a guilty conscience
Police in Florida said a tourist has returned a wrestling shoe autographed by Hulk Hogan that she took from a shop.
Authorities said the woman called the star’s Clearwater Beach store, saying she wanted to return the shoe. A security camera captured images of the theft but it took a while for employees to realise that the shoe - valued at $5,500 (€3,985) - was missing. They then watched the security film and called police.
According to Clearwater police, the woman said she “had done a stupid thing”. Though she had left the state, she had left the shoe behind and arranged for three people she met in Clearwater to return it to the store.
Football’s a game of two halves
A study of top-level male and female footballers has found women sprint less in the second half of matches and give the ball away more.
Paul Bradley, of Sunderland University, studied 54 men and 59 women playing in the Uefa Champions League using cameras to analyse their movement.
His findings, published in the journal Human Movement Science, show that elite male footballers ran three to five per cent further than women during a match, but covered around 30 per cent more distance at high intensity.