A woman has agreed to marry her partner following a proposal with a difference at the Glastonbury festival.
Jane Shannon, 45, said yes to Mark Goddard, 43, after he took her to the top of a viewing tower while his friends unfurled a huge “Marry me” banner a couple of hundred yards away.
Shannon, who had to be persuaded to scale the Ribbon Tower in the Park area because she is afraid of heights, said she had no idea the romantic gesture was about to happen. When the couple, from Chester-le-Street in County Durham, reached the bottom of the tower, Goddard reported: “She said yes!”
11 in hospital from smelly fridge
A smelly refrigerator at the University of Kentucky sent nearly a dozen people to hospital.
Staff at the Dimock Animal Pathology building noticed a strong odour as they arrived at work and when they opened the fridge the smell was overpowering. Fire chief Joe Best said people reported minor irritation to the skin or eyes and some nausea and 11 were taken to hospital. The building was evacuated as a precaution.
University officials said removal workers had taken the fridge there from another campus building but did not detect anything amiss. Spokeswoman Kathy Jones said officials believe the smell was caused by a chemical residue left by something that had been inside the refrigerator.
Meets her life-saver after 30 years
A veteran Massachusetts state police trooper has been reunited with the baby whose life he saved more than three decades ago and who is now a state trooper himself.
Al Balestra, 63, met 32-year-old Philip Kucha for the first time since their lives intersected near Logan International Airport on October 18 1983 when the latter was 10 months old and started going into convulsions in a car with his parents.
Kucha’s mother spotted a police cruiser and asked for help. Balestra and a now-retired colleague turned on their sirens and flashing lights and took the baby to Massachusetts General Hospital.
Kucha, who became a trooper last year, had a letter his mother received in 1983 which included the names of the men who saved his life, and decided to see if they were still on the job.
£82,000 for Wyman’s classic cars
Two cars owned by former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman sold for more than £82,000 at auction. A 1971 Citroen Maserati SM fetched £61,980 and a 1966 Mercedes-Benz 250 S went for £20,700, both including buyers’ premium, at the Bonhams Festival of Speed Sale at Goodwood, West Sussex.
Wyman (pictured here with his 1971 Citroen Maserati SM) drove the cars to studios during the recording of several famous Stones albums, including Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Exile on Main St. (1972) and Tattoo You (1981).
Fan leaves £250,000 to his club
A football fan who died aged 79 has left more a quarter of a million pounds to the semi-professional club he had supported all his life.
Colin Rowell left more than £300,000 to his beloved Bishop Auckland Football Club, which claims to be the world’s most successful amateur side.