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Sting - then known as Gordon Sumner - taught English at St Paul's School, Cramlington, Northumberland, before gaining fame as a rock star. He recalled how one pupil skipped school and put on a booming voice in a phone call to announce his absence in his autobiography Broken Music. The boy erupted: 'Er... It's me mam.' When Mr Sumner asked who was calling, he replied: 'Er, mam.' Ricky Ross, a frontman for Deacon Blue, was an English tutor at St Columba of Iona, Glasgow.

Hundreds of punters attended Wetherspoon's first ever holiday park bar over the weekend, with some meals selling out by lunchtime. As pubgoers went to get Spoons on their staycations, the Five Stones in Primrose Valley Holiday Park, Filey, Yorkshire, welcomed their first patrons. On Saturday, the first pints of the day were cleared well before noon, and staff raced around serving food and drink with long lines at the bar. The £5.36 children's portion of spaghetti bolognese was one of the first meals to sell out. With more than 300 hungry punters emerging from the cold and rain, the large restaurant area was soon packed.

After JD Wetherspoon opened their first pub in a holiday park, pubgoers will now get Spoons on vacation. Today, the Five Stones in Primrose Valley Holiday Park, Filey, Yorkshire, welcomed its first clients. The park's owner, Haven Holidays, has told pundits that they should expect 'all the value and variety you've come to of the iconic British pub company, as well as Haven's focus on family fun.' Several Roman 'finds' have been unearthed in and around Filey, and the pub's name refers to several. Fragments of Roman pottery were uncovered near what is now the main entrance of the holiday park in 1924.

The value of a display case that once contained a single bottle of the world's most expensive whisky was stunned by an Antiques Roadshow visitor. The case was one of 24 made to display a bottle of 1926 Macallan whisky, with 12 produced by Italian pop artist Valerio Adami and 12 featuring a label by fellow pop artist Sir Peter Blake, who is best known for co-creating the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt's sleeve design. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a tribute to Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The bottles were drawn from the Macallan's legendary cask number 263 - in recent years bottles from this cask have broken the £1million mark and set a string of world records at auction.

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It comes as the leisure corporation is investing £4 million in its food and drink ranges. It's the latest in a line of brands that are already operating in Haven's 41 parks, including Burger King, Papa Johns, Costa Coffee, and Slim Chickens.

Pauline Boty never rose to the fame of contemporaries such as David Hockney and Peter Blake due to her death from cancer at the age of 28 in 1966. Now, a new exhibition is bringing the radical artist's life and work to the public eye. Pauline Boty: A Portrait, which is on display at the Gazelli Art House in west London, is showing several of her paintings, including one that honors Cuba's Fidel Castro's ascension to the communist regime.

A bottle of whisky dubbed "the holy grail of single malts" set a world auction record yesterday, selling for more than $2 million. The Macallan Adami 1926 was one of only 12 bottles made by the Speyside distillery in 1986. Yesterday, it surpassed the previous auction record by more than £700,000, implying that each of the 28 25 million drams it contains is worth more than £77,857. The 97-year-old whisky was derived from the distillery's legendary cask number 263 and features a tag by Italian pop artist Adami.

At auction next month, a bottle of the world's most expensive whisky could sell for up to £1.2 million. The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 was one of only 12 bottles made by the Speyside distillery in 1986 that featured a name by Italian pop artist Adami. It's derived from the Macallan's legendary cask number 263 - in recent years bottles from this cask have broken the £1 million barrier and set a string of world record prices at auction. The rare bottle, which has undergone tests for authenticity, will be auctioned in London on November 18 and is expected to sell for £750,000 to £1.2 million.

ANDREW PIERCE: Braverman is fighting for her political career after boundary changes ensure her Fareham constituency will be merged with neighbouring Meon Valley at the next election. This means she will have to campaign for the vacant seat of Fareham and Waterlooville with Tory MP Flick Drummond.