A newspaper ad promoting a tour by rail in the South Island, includes lovely vistas of Mt Ruapehu, according to Vic Keppel.
Royal couple will appear on soap
Charles and Camilla will appear
as themselves in an episode of EastEnders about the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Kellie Bright, who plays pub landlady Linda Carter on the show, said: "I just thought, 'Wow, they've never done anything like this before.' They didn't really know what to expect, I mean it must have been nerve-wracking for them and completely out of their norm. So, I just hope they enjoyed it as much as we did."
Ever wondered ...
In his 2008 book 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know, cosmologist John D Barrow considers how long a straight line a typical HB pencil could draw before the lead ran out. He did the maths and concluded 1178km. "But I haven't tested this prediction!"