Experts have recreated the face of a Saxon man buried at Lincoln Castle almost 1,000 years ago.

A team from the University of Dundee was able to create the image from a skeleton discovered on the site of an old church at the castle.

He is thought to have been about 40 when he died and was one of eight people buried at the site between 1035 to 1070.

The position of his grave meant his skull was the best preserved and allowed the experts from the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) to recreate his face.

Colourful summer at exhibition

The weather might be indifferent outside, but there is no mistaking the season which inspired the Royal Academy of Arts’ latest exhibition.

With reds as rich as the setting summer sun, vibrant yellows, deep blues and hues to celebrate the season’s best, visitors to the London gallery will be immersed in a patchwork of colour.

Among the Summer Exhibition 2015’s installations is a multi-coloured staircase by Turner Prize nominee Jim Lambie. The work, entitled Zobop, is made from hundreds of pieces of coloured vinyl tape and took seven people nearly 500 hours to complete.

Anniversary run of speed record

A car once owned by speed ace Sir Malcolm Campbell is returning to the beach where it set a world land speed record.

To mark the 90th anniversary of the day Sir Malcolm reached 150mph in his 350hp Sunbeam, his grandson, Don Wales, will make a low-speed run in the vehicle.

Mr Wales, 54, who is a land speed record holder in his own right, will drive the Sunbeam on Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire, South Wales – the scene of his grandfather’s great triumph – on July 21.

Girl knocked unconscious by fish

A teenager was knocked unconscious by a sturgeon jumping from the Suwannee River in Florida, wildlife authorities have said.

It was the second strike involving that type of fish in two weeks on a north Florida river. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the sturgeon are jumping as they have for millions of years but occasionally Florida boaters get in their way.

Authorities said 14-year-old Heavyn Nash, of Fanning Springs, was boating with her family in Manatee Springs State Park when a sturgeon up to 1.8 metres long leapt into the boat, knocking her out. She needed hospital treatment.

Matterhorn closed out of respect

Switzerland’s most famous mountain, the Matterhorn, will be closed to climbers on the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of its summit.

The Alpine resort of Zermatt said the 24-hour shutdown on July 14 is being imposed “out of respect for the mountain” and in memory of more than 500 climbers who have died on the Matterhorn – starting with four of the seven-man team that first reached the summit in 1865.

The town council said people defying the order banning climbing on the mountain that day could be fined up to 5,000 Swiss francs (€4,760) plus the cost of being airlifted off the slopes by helicopter.

Drunk imposter set up roadblock

A man who set up a drink-driving checkpoint, complete with road flares, while pretending to be a Pennsylvania state trooper was drunk, police said.

Troopers said 19-year-old Logan Shaulis, of Somerset, parked his vehicle diagonally across state Route 601 and set up road flares at about 4am.

A motorist who stopped said the teenager claimed he was a trooper and demanded to see a driver’s licence, registration and insurance papers.

When real troopers arrived, police said Shaulis tried to hand a BB pistol to the car’s passenger and said “I can’t get caught with this”.

He faces charges including drunken driving, impersonating a public servant and unlawful restraint.