Hidden talent and the wrecking bra

The janitor who asked if he could play the piano in the university Chapel at Glasgow University soon had quite an audience. Staff were watching him via a webcam, and heard him play concert-standard pieces. Very soon, he was asked to give a public recital, which went down a storm. Aleksander Kudajcyk, from Poland, usually cleans the corridors at the university.

A bra, which someone flushed down in toilet in northeast England, caused the collapse of a sewer pipe and a 10 metre stretch of road overhead. Apparently, the garment had spread itself over a pipe, and the combination of a build-up of fat and other debris behind it caused the pipe to collapse, together with the road overhead. The owner of the bra is untraceable, so Northumbria Water faces a £15,000 bill to repair the damage.