The Telegraph features what looks like a piece of naff surrealist art, but is actually a bicycle-eating tree.
Handlebars stick out of a sycamore trunk that has swallowed the rest of the bike and other bits of metal including an anchor and a chain. The tree stands in an old smithy's yard in Brig o'Turk, near LochLomond. The paper explains:
"As it grew, the expanding trunk engulfed the blacksmith scrapheap around it. When a local boy who had left his bicycle against the tree failed to return from the first world war, the tree grew round it."
Villagers are calling for a preservation order to protect the tree, but there are no plans to fell it. John Barrington, the author of a guide to the area, describes it as "one of Scotland greatest arboricultural curiosities".
Meanwhile, the Times says Chelsea flower show traditionalists are not happy after the best in show prize went to a barren looking "astronaut's allotment".
The Martian garden, designed in conjunction with the European space agency, shows what an astronaut to Mars could grow in a biosphere. The paper says the garden was considered an unlikely winner "because it lacked aesthetic appeal". But Lisa Huntington, a Royal Horiticultural Society judge, says: "It was very brave, and it's not to everybody's taste, but Chelsea needs change and innovation. It's theatre - and we need theatre."
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