METRO BITES

A CHARITY fundraiser has raised nearly £50,000 by climbing the Three Peaks in a 130lb diving suit.

Lloyd Scott, best known for completing the London Marathon in the same weighty outfit, got to the top of Mt Snowdon yesterday after climbing Ben Nevis and Scafell Pike.

The 58-year-old was fundraising for The Lord’s Taverners, a youth cricket and disability sports charity.

It was the last challenge for Mr Scott, who has raised £5million over 30 years with adventures such as an underwater marathon and a Penny Farthing ride in Australia.

A SHEEP farmer who laced jars of baby food with shards of metal in a bid to blackmail Tesco has been jailed for 14 years.

Nigel Wright, 45, tried to extort £1.4million in Bitcoin from the retail chain from 2018 to 2020.

Two mums spotted the metal dangers just before feeding their babies.

At the Old Bailey, Wright, of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, was found guilty of blackmail and contaminating goods.

He was also found guilty of blackmail for demanding £150,000 in Bitcoin from a driver he had a road rage row with.

THE misguided belief ‘it won’t happen to me’ costs £50 a month, a poll shows.

One in ten of us have had a breakdown after opting out of roadside rescue services, while 16 per cent have broken a phone we failed to insure and 13 per cent have done the same with kitchen goods. Another 13 per cent didn’t bother to install online security as they thought they would not be scammed – then were.

‘It’s easy to think it will all be fine, then ending up in a tricky situation. Insuring and securing devices saves time and money and distress,’ said Virgin Media, which conducted the survey.

A MEDAL stolen 33 years ago will finally be returned to its owner after he saw it in an online sale.

Albert Marrable’s Past Masters masonic medal was stolen from a car in Canterbury, Kent, in 1987.

The 78-year-old had almost forgotten about the 1980 honour – which had his name on the back – until he spotted it online.

Kent Police contacted the sellers in Scotland, who are returning it. It is thought to have changed hands many times.

Mr Marrable said: ‘I feared I would lose it again. I am very pleased to be reunited with it.’