Artworks by notorious violent prisoner Charles Bronson are to be sold to pay for a holiday for his mother after she was upset by his recent attack on prison guards, an auction house has said.

Bronson requested the eight pieces be sold after what was reported to be an attack on 12 guards at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, JP Humbert Auctioneers said.

It was claimed that furious Tottenham Hotspur fan Bronson went on the rampage in May while smeared with butter after arch-rivals Arsenal won the FA Cup.

The artworks belonged to Ronnie Kray, and are among 150 lots from the estate of the renowned East End gangster – who died in 1995 – which are being sold by his second wife Kate in the auction in Towcester, Northamptonshire.

Commuters love singing in the train

A rail commuter has come up with some tracks of his own by leading fellow travellers in an impromptu in-carriage singsong.

The singalong, captured on film by a passenger and accompanied by enthusiastic hand-clapping, was the work of a white-haired, suit-wearing traveller on a Southeastern train going from Victoria station in London to Ashford International in Kent.

Passengers had been sitting in silence when the man leapt up to add a little gaiety to the last journey of the day.

In the film, the man can be seen singing with gusto, with other passengers joining in the singing and the clapping and others looking on in amusement.

Old phones metamorphose into butterflies

A group of designers has created a set of artificial butterflies made entirely from recycled mobile phones, which interact differently when existing smartphones make contact with them.

Working with mobile operator O2 and its official O2 Recycle scheme, design company is this good? designed the butterflies to show that there is use for old phones beyond the end of a user’s contract.

Chris Cairns, creative director at is this good?, said: “We wanted to give the ‘old and forgotten’ a new lease of life and showcase the fact that even the discarded can emerge as something new and beautiful, which is what up-cycling and O2 Recycle is all about.”

School reports a moose on the loose

Schoolchildren in western Sweden had a surprise visit during their handicraft class when a moose jumped through the window.

The teacher and pupils fled the classroom to another part of the school to escape the thrashing animal, which had wounded itself on the broken window.

Police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg said the young moose “was in a panic and so were the children and teacher”.

Officers broke a window to let the schoolchildren out and later shot the wounded animal, which could not find its way out of the school.

Except for the moose, no-one was injured during the incident at the high school in Molndal, near the city of Goteborg.