Britain’s first motorway fishmonger has opened on the M5 – allowing drivers to pick up fish-to-go at the roadside.

Fishmonger Francis Phillips, 67, is joined by a farm shop, old-fashioned butchers, patisserie and chocolatier at Gloucester Services southbound.

It stocks only fish that have been sustainably caught in UK waters off small-scale British fishing boats landed in Newlyn, Cornwall. Customers are provided with ice and cool bags to ensure their purchases are kept fresh until the end of their journey.

Wembley gaffe for play-offs

Officials at Wembley Stadium have apologised for getting one of the Championship play-off teams wrong on the tickets.

A misprint saw Middlesbrough spelt “Middlesborough”, with an incorrect extra ‘o’ on tickets for their game against Norwich City on Bank Holiday Monday.

The play-off match has often been described as sport’s most lucrative one-off, given the Premier League riches that go to the winner. A spokesman apologised, saying: “It was a human error”.

Unique image of Shakespeare?

A historian claims to have discovered the only portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime.

The image, said to show the Bard “with a film star’s good looks”, was identified by botanist and historian Mark Griffiths in the first edition of a 16th century book on plants, The Herball. Mark Hedges, editor of Country Life magazine, which is revealing the claimed discovery, said it was “an absolutely extraordinary discovery”.

The Herball, written by pioneering botanist John Gerard, was at 1,484 pages the largest single volume work on plants published in English. The engraving is the work of William Rogers and only around 10 to 15 copies of the book containing the image are thought to exist.

Man stuck in drain for four days

A man has been rescued after getting stuck for four days in a Nashville storm drain.

Firefighters dug into the ground and broke into a concrete pipe to free the unidentified man. They were called to the scene after another man heard the victim calling for help. It was not immediately clear how the man got into the drain, but an assistant chief with the Nashville fire department said he had crawled in somewhere along Charlotte Avenue last Thursday.

The man suffered cuts to his body and appeared dehydrated. Once freed, he was given oxygen and taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation and treatment.

Professor celebrates 100th year

When Brooklyn Law School professors and alumni refer to an “institution”, they might very well be talking about Professor Joseph Crea.

Colleagues and friends gathered to celebrate his 100th birthday at the school where he has taught for over six decades. Crea began working at the law school as a librarian after his 1947 graduation and started teaching the next year.

Besides teaching tax, tort, commercial and other aspects of law to generations of students, he wrote a legal research guide and served on a mayoral committee for selecting marshals.

Crea’s career interest dawned when he found a pile of abandoned law books on a roadside in the 1930s.

Police hunting Bob the burglar

Police in Connecticut are looking for a burglar who goes by the name of Bob.

A woman reported a break-in at her home in New Haven in the early hours of Monday, telling officers she asked who was in her hallway and the man replied “Bob” before fleeing through a back door.

Police said no one who lives in the apartment knows Bob, who apparently entered through an unlocked front door. They added that it did not appear that anything had been stolen.