PUB regular Arthur 'Bunny' Johnson has pledged to take full advantage of an offer of free beer for life.
A Daily Mirror story reveals that 100 year old Arthur visits the Bowling Green pub in Chorlton, Manchester, every day to enjoy a pint.
Landlord Mark Canny promised Bunny free beer for life around eight years ago once he had reached 100.
Bunny commented: “Free beers for life. That’s the deal! I started drinking at the Bowling Green for the beer. I always have a Timothy Taylor’s Landlord. It is usually a pint a day but then quite often it’s a double!”
He celebrated his special birthday at the pub with friends and family.
“I had a wonderful big party. The place was packed - really full.”
The Daily Mirror also salutes Bill Ogden, who at the age of 90, is reckoned to be the world's oldest paper-boy.
Bill has spent 26 years getting up at 4.30am to deliver newspapers around Upavon and Enford in Wiltshire.
Bill, who does part of his shift in his car and the rest on foot, said: “I would like to think I am the world’s oldest paper-boy. I don’t look at it like a job, it’s just something that I enjoy doing.
“Every so often someone will ask me whether I’m going to stop, but what would I do if I stopped?”
He started the round in 1991 when his late wife Helen offered up his services to the owner of their village store.
Pages of one of the first books printed in England,which date back to the 15th century, have been uncovered, says The Independent.
They report that the pages of a mediaeval priest’s handbook, dating to between 1476 and 1477, were found in the University of Reading's archives by librarian Erika Delbecque while she was cataloguing thousands of items showing the history of print and graphic design.
They were produced by English printer William Caxton and the two pages are valued at around £100,000.
“This well preserved item is the only one of its kind, and one of just two surviving fragments from this mediaeval Caxton book in existence,” said Ms Delbecque.
Apparently, it's so rare that the odds are 1 in 48 million...the Daily Express looks at a family who enjoy a triple birthday on the same day!
Lee-ann Spriggs (31) and her daughters Paige (12) and Enya-Rose (1) were all born on May 11 and in the same hospital - the Airedale General Hospital in Keighley, West Yorks.
Lee-anne said: “My mum is overjoyed that we all have the same birthday, although her bank balance isn't enjoying it."
The Guardian tells us that unseen footage of the Beatles 'larking around' as they filmed a movie in the Austrian Alps has been found after being stored in a garage for more than 50 years.
It was filmed by the late actor Leo McKern, who was in the Beatles film 1965 Help!
Actor Neil Pearson, who is also a rare books dealer, said “ It is footage of golden age Beatles, fooling around between takes, waiting for something to happen.”
The unseen 8mm film and its copyright is being sold by Pearson with an asking price of £35,000.
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