Any old wax?

"I'm sorry, dear, I left them in the conservatory and they melted."

Some bright spark has paid £81,500 for some wax heads that don't look anything like the Beatles, but which were used on the cover of Sgt Pepper.

"You wouldn't think that anyone would be willing to pay this much for some wax," Cooper Owen creative director Louise Cooper said.

"But this isn't any old wax - these heads truly represent a slice of music history."

If you agree that the cover itself is an iconic piece of pop art, it's a bit like paying all that money for a few square cm of the canvas of an Andy Warhol.

Anyway, I hope they'll make someone very happy, and that there aren't any power cuts on hot days.