Good week for

Shiny new trains

It’s on the Tube map in royal purple, The Queen has tapped an Oyster card and its trains started running yesterday: the new Elizabeth Line

A taste of Derbyshire

Chatsworth-reared lamb, garden produce, cheeses, sausages, gin, honey and more will be available between May 28 and July 15 at the Sotheby’s New Bond Street restaurant, part of the auction house’s jubilee festivities

Edible furniture

A life-size ‘carvery throne’ made from Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and vegetables has been built by food artist Nathan Wyburn for the Bramley Farm pub in Greater Manchester

Money for old wood

Hilary Mantel is auctioning off the pedestal desk at which she wrote her Booker Prize-winning novels to raise money for the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival’s work in local schools; via Bonhams on June 22, estimate £1,000–£1,500 Archaeological discovery A stone circle has been found underground, using radar technology, within late-neolithic Castilly Henge, near Bodmin, Cornwall

Cash in the attic

An ‘extremely rare’ 18th-century Qianlong Chinese vase bought in the 1980s for a few hundred pounds and kept in a kitchen has sold through Dreweatts for nearly £1.5 million

Bad week for

Good health

Obese British adults will outnumber those of a healthy weight within five years, unless ‘drastic Government action’ is taken, finds a Cancer Research report Northumberland fishermen

The harbour in the village of Beadnell could be forced to close, due to people flouting the rules by swimming in the sea there and ‘tombstoning’ off the harbour walls