Archaeologists could be a step closer to solving the 300-year-old mystery surrounding a shipwreck off Cornwall.
In November 1721, 207 sailors lost their lives in a ferocious storm when their military transport galley the Royal Anne hit rocks and sank at Lizard Point.
Just three people survived that fateful night by clinging to wreckage and among the dead was Lord Belhaven, the newly appointed Governor of Barbados.
It is believed that those who died were buried, as was customary with drowned seamen at the time, in unconsecrated ground just west of Lizard Point at Pistil Meadow.
Spitfire in emergency landing
A Spitfire pilot has been assessed by paramedics after making an emergency landing in a field.
Fire crews and paramedics were called to the site in Woodchurch, near Ashford, Kent, after receiving a report that the historic aircraft had come down.
The pilot had already managed to get out of the plane by the time the emergency services arrived at the scene.
Makeover at Tussauds for Queen
Visitors to Madame Tussauds will be dazzled by the Queen’s wax figure which features a new crystal-covered dress to mark her becoming the longest-reigning British monarch this week.
The monarch’s model has been unveiled wearing a replica of a gown worn by the Queen in 2012 for her official Diamond Jubilee photographs.
Tomorrow the Queen will pass the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria who, Buckingham Palace has calculated, reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes.
A spokesman for the famous London attraction said: “It’s all part of the celebrations marking Madame Tussauds’ relationships with Her Majesty the Queen as she becomes the longest-reigning monarch.”
Court socks it to drugs fraudster
A man who tried to sell a backpack of dirty socks as marijuana has been sentenced to at least one year in a Michigan prison.
Michael Suarez was sentenced for committing fraud through false pretences. An unarmed robbery charge was dropped. Police say Suarez was pursuing a marijuana deal in July when he showed up at a home in Lenawee County’s Raisin Township. But instead of carrying pot, he had a backpack stuffed with dirty socks.
Police say a purse with $2,800 was stolen from the home. Suarez and others were stopped after speeding through a stop sign. Defence attorney John Glaser says the “false pretences” were the dirty socks. Suarez will be eligible for parole after a year in prison. His maximum sentence is seven and a half years.
Chick fouls up rush-hour traffic
Three people are claiming ownership of the small brown chicken that fouled up rush-hour traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Oakland Tribune said that the Oakland Animal Shelter has the chicken that strutted between cars at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. She was eventually captured by the California Highway Patrol.
Animal Services Director Rebecca Katz says people claiming ownership of the chicken, named Chip in a nod to the CHP, need to come to the facility with proof, such as previous photos of the famous foul. Two rescue groups are also interested in Chip.