A statue of the Queen has been unveiled to mark the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta.

The ceremony took place in Runnymede, Surrey, where King John accepted the historic document that limited the power of the Crown on June 15, 1215.

The four-metre high bronze statue shows the Queen in full garter robes and takes its inspiration from portraits taken of her in 1954 and 1969.

The artwork was unveiled at Runnymede Pleasure Grounds close to the River Thames by John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons.

He struggled to remove the statue’s blue cover, and a band cut short its musical accompaniment until the sculpture – created by James Butler – was fully uncovered.

Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary and MP for Runnymede and Weybridge, said the Queen was the “ultimate refinement” of constitutional monarchy.

‘Rolf Harris song mocks victims’

Convicted paedophile Rolf Harris has written a song mocking his victims as money-grabbing “wenches”, it has been reported.

In a letter obtained by the Mail on Sunday, the disgraced entertainer said his victims were “joining the feeding frenzy” by getting their “hooks into his dough”.

He also said his life behind bars was “no hardship really”.

The 85-year-old was handed a six-year jail term last year for a string of sex attacks on girls as young as seven.

His letter was reportedly sent from Stafford prison to a friend, who handed it to the newspaper.

One line of the song, which Harris says he would like to set to country rock music, reads: “Perhaps you believe you’re pretty still, some perfumed sultry wench?”

Other lines say: “Make him burn, get your 50-year-old hooks into his dough. Come and join the feeding frenzy, girls.”

The accusations dated between 1968 and 1986, and the girls were targeted between the ages of seven or eight and 19.

Teenager makes planet discovery

A student said he got “lucky” when he discovered a new planet 1,000 light years away while on work experience aged 15.

Tom Wagg, from Staffordshire, was studying data collected by a South African telescope during a placement with Keele University when he spotted a dip in the graph where light from the stars was blocked.

Professors at the university marked the find as a priority and confirmed it as a planet following a two-year process of confirmation from experts around the world.

Uninhabitable for humans, the mysterious planet resembles Jupiter and orbits in a manner similar to Mercury, according to the teenager.

Events for World Meat Free Day

Events are being held around the UK today to mark the first World Meat Free Day.

People around the globe have been urged to give up meat for a day as part of a campaign aimed at tackling climate change, promoting health and feeding the world more fairly.

The day will be launched at The York Festival of Ideas where an alternative meat free breakfast is being held for staff and students followed by a range of scholarly events.

The festival will host a series of panel discussions and keynote talks by a range of international scientists, policy experts and food writers.

The university says they will examine the complex inter-relationship between food production and security, sustainability and climate change and how the food choices consumers are making will have a major impact on the global availability of food and people’s health.