It wasn’t all bad

A tiny museum in North Yorkshire has been shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year award, alongside such cultural titans as the National Portrait Gallery and the Young V&A. Skipton’s Craven Museum, which is in a town hall, began to rise from obscurity 20 years ago when an expert discovered that it had one of Shakespeare’s First Folios in a backroom cupboard. The Folio is now on permanent display, along with some 60,000 objects representing millennia of local history.

A girls’ under-ten football team that lost every game last season has now won 28 in a row against all-boy squads. Woodlanders FC, from Bradley in West Yorkshire, became the first girls’ side to win the Huddersfield Junior Football League Vase when it beat Howden Clough 3-2, having beaten a succession of other boys’ teams from across the region. “It’s a massive achievement for the girls and they have shown they can play against boys and be more than a match for them,” said David Gilroy, the team’s coach. “The girls are an amazing bunch and have had a fantastic season. They have shown football is for everyone.”

A Scottish bar singer found himself performing in front of 14,000 people last week, owing to Olly Murs’s flight being cancelled. Daniel Rooney, 26, was playing at a hotel near Glasgow’s Ovo Hydro arena when the news broke that Take That were without a supporting act. TV presenter Ross King, who was visiting the hotel, immediately phoned his friend Gary Barlow, and said its bar singer might just save the day. Minutes later, Rooney was taking to the stage. “I usually play to around 40 people,” he said. “It’s madness.”