It wasn’t all bad

Two original scores by the English composer Gustav Holst have been discovered in New Zealand, more than a century after they were written. The manuscripts to Folk Songs from Somerset and Two Songs Without Words were found in an orchestra’s library, in Tauranga. Two Songs is still performed today, but the original score was thought to be lost; Folk Songs was conducted by Holst, known for The Planets, at its 1906 premiere, but may not have been heard since.

An 89-year-old man who has been studying German at the same university in Leeds for the past half-century has now won a prize for modern languages. Thought to be Britain’s longest-enrolled student, former chemical engineer Ken Knapton (pictured) first joined the class in 1968; since then, he has received several qualifications, including a German degree. His tutors at Leeds Beckett University have described him as a model student. “I’ve continued studying German with the university for all these years because I enjoy it,” Mr Knapton said. “It’s easy to forget things, so I keep at it.”

A girl fined by her local council for setting up a lemonade stand has been inundated with job offers. Two weeks ago, the fiveyear-old was selling cups of lemonade on her street in east London when four council officers marched up and gave her a £150 fine for trading without a permit. Distraught, she burst into tears. “I’ve done a bad thing,” she told her father. But now several festivals and markets have offered her space for a new stall – an offer her father says he hopes might be extended to other children. And the council has apologised.