Virginia Woolf’s last letter to her sister before her suicide will form part of a new exhibition about the writer.
Paintings, photographs and other letters are going on show at the exhibition which will focus on the life and work of the novelist who drowned herself in 1941.
Among the items at the National Portrait Gallery are portraits of Woolf and her contemporaries in the artistic movement known as the Bloomsbury Group, including her sister Vanessa Bell.
Woolf, famous for her experimental style and novels including Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse, is seen as a major figure in literary modernism. She was played by Nicole Kidman in the 2002 film The Hours. Picture shows Virginia Woolf and famous poet TS Eliot.
Drained phone leaves teen stuck
A teenage girl had to be rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in a storm drain while trying to retrieve her mobile phone.
The girl, named locally as 16-year-old Ella Birchenough, squeezed down the hole to try to fetch her phone in Eaves Road, Dover, Kent. But she became stuck fast in front of a group of onlookers, including her mother, according to witness Tim Richards.
Mobile phone shop employee Mr Richards, 22, was driving home with his mother when he saw Ella up to her waist in the drain, and they pulled over.
He said: “It’s not the type of thing you see every day. It was pretty weird. She was more concerned about getting her phone back rather than getting herself out of the drain.”
Couple’s sofa came with a free cat
A couple who bought a sofa from a charity shop got an extra surprise when they found a cat trapped inside it.
Ten-year-old Crockett spent five days trapped in the three-seater settee after his owners made the donation to St Luke’s Hospice in Grays, Essex.
Pauline and Bill Lowe, both 66, from Corringham, said they had been devastated to lose Crockett and were delighted to have him home.
It is thought he sneaked into the sofa as it was taken apart before being moved. Mrs Lowe added: “We can’t believe how he must have tucked himself into the sofa during the short time the bottom was removed and remained silent for so long.”
Town shoots down drone hunt bid
A small town in Colorado has thrown out a proposal to issue hunting licences to shoot down drones.
Town officials in Deer Trail say 73 per cent of the 188 votes cast were against the measure. Deer Trail has 348 registered voters, but many are probably inactive.
Federal aviation authorities warned it is a crime to shoot at drones, but backers said the measure was a tongue-in-cheek challenge to surveillance programmes.
Some residents called the election a novelty response to show displeasure and raise money through permits.
Wat next? Angkor on Street View
The spectacular temples of Cambodia’s historic Angkor civilisation have been incorporated into Google’s Street View.
The internet giant says the feature now includes more than 90,000 photographic panoramas, and allows viewers to zoom in to study carvings and other artistic and archaeo-logical details.
Built between the ninth and 14th centuries, Angkor Wat is a symbol of national pride and also Cambodia’s biggest tourist attraction, receiving about two million visitors a year.
Digging dog’s 1,000 mile mystery
The owners of a small dog that escaped in Texas have no idea how he made it to a shelter in Ohio more than 1,000 miles away.
The three-year-old Chihuahua-Dachshund mix named Corbin dug a hole under a fence in his backyard and was found four days later tied to a bench outside an animal shelter.
Officials hope to identify a woman seen on surveillance footage as she left the dog at the shelter, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Corbin, who is in good shape, was reunited with his owners with the help of a microchip. One says he previously escaped by digging holes but was always found nearby.