The stunning artwork has seen normal trees transformed into the likes of a dragon and a kingfisher with designs reaching from 10-20 feet high.  The locals have said they want to thank the mysterious artist for attracting tourists to the area.

Althea Farmer, chairwoman of the Knaresborough Civic Society said, “One of our members was walking down there and saw the carvings. They said one in particular – a diving kingfisher with a fish in its mouth – was absolutely marvellous.  They were blown away by it. It must have taken a while to do them.  No one has come forward and revealed who it was and it’s quite a mystery. It’s good publicity for the town as it is like having North Yorkshire’s answer to Banksy and it could be another tourist attraction.”

The civic society is currently trying to uncover the identity of the artist while Mrs Farmer added, “We are very interested in finding out who it is but we quite like the fact that nobody knows as it gives it a mystery like the Banksy drawings.  However, they are very talented so we would like them to come forward.”

Lloyd appeared on This Morning and added that she always puts her “foot in it” with her outspoken comments.  She mused, “I’m always doing it.  I think I get too comfortable with just being myself. I forget that people are watching me.  I think I really did put my foot in it and now I’ve realised that what I said was wrong, obviously, and I said sorry.   And I think it got fully taken out of context, but I think I understand now that you need to be on form and be aware of what you’re saying all the time.”

When she was asked about Cole’s response on Twitter where she said, “Be Careful who you kick on your way up… They kick you twice as hard on your way back down.  #Unappreciation is ugly” Lloyd said she wasn’t surprised, “but it is what it is.  I do owe her, but how I see it is the X Factor was a great platform for me and she really did help me and I’m very grateful.   I wouldn’t say that I wasn’t grateful for what she had given me – the opportunity that she had given me, putting me through and things like that – but I feel like from here, it’s down to me to do as best as I possibly can.”

The decision to charge for entry to the Olympic Park is proving to be very controversial especially as tax payers have paid for the £7.25billion site.

The largest screen will be floated on the River Lea and will be double sided with the banks around it landscaped into a bowl shape where you can be seated.

Andrew Boff, a Tory councillor for the London Assembly, said, “I think Londoners will be shocked by how much isn’t free,” while Assembly member Tony Arbour added, “It is astonishing to be asked to pay to watch television.  The UK citizens still appear to be being short-changed. First they were not given access to the number of tickets they thought they would be because they were snaffled up by other groups and now they must pay to watch it on a screen.  This was supposed to be a great public celebration, but it seems that the celebrating is going to be rationed.”

The news of more costs comes several days after it was announced that spectators will have to pay to watch the road cycling on Box Hill, Weymouth, while also in Weymouth, officials will fence off part of the Dorset coastline to stop tose without tickets from watching the event.

The cycling is one of the most-sought after events at the games and large areas of land nearby had been cleared to allow 15,000 to watch from the sidelines however that is now being challenged also, despite being on National Trust land. Mr Arbour said, “It is appalling. The road cycling was supposed to be one of the great free public events and people should not have to pay again to see it.  People are starting to wonder what will they charge for next?”

Yesterday, a spokeswoman for Locog said, “We have got ambitions to sell tickets for the big screens at the Olympic Park but we are still working through the pricing and when they will go on sale at the moment.  One of the biggest reasons for grounds tickets is health and safety because of the venue capacities.”

A single Scottish Elizabeth Harrison Snowdrop bulb sold for a record £725 on eBay yesterday, more than double of the previous record for a Green Tear which sold for £360 just last month.

Snowdrops are becoming increasingly valuable with many collectors of the species hiring security guards or getting tags to protect their rare species.  There is also a significant increase in Snowdrop collectors or galanthopiles who are willing to part with hundreds of pounds for the flowers which first became popular in the mid 19th Century.

Joe Sharman, galanthopile and owner of Monksilver Nursery in Cambridge who also discovered the ‘Grumpy’ snowdrop – galanthus elwesii – said, “There are people who go around stealing snowdrops.  I have to hire in security guards when I hold an event.”

The Scottish Elizabeth Harrison Snowdrop aka galanthus woronowii appeared as a seedling in a Scottish garden a few years ago and is so named after its owner.  It is so rare that it has not been identified anywhere else.

Let’s hope the new buyer doesn’t have a cat or a dog; one chomp and it’s gone.

Less than 24 hours after it launched, Lauren Goodger has become the latest TOWIE star to fall victim to thugs.

Her salon, Lauren’s Way, was set alight and had its windows smashed just hours after the TOWIE star signed autographs outside.  The salon had not even opened up for business yet.

Goodger wrote on Twitter last night, “Thanks for you’re lovely messages tonight.. In bed with lydia and Georgia 3 in a bed won’t be able to sleep tonight..#angelslookingover.”

Goodger is the second TOWIE star to suffer at the hands of their fame with sisters Billie and Sam Faiers being attacked last year.

An Essex Police spokesman said that minimum damage had been done to the salon however police officers were still standing guard last night.  He added that the people who lived about the shop were forced to be evacuated from their homes while it is not yet clear whether they have been let back.  They added that it was the only arson attack in the area and that their investigations were still ongoing.

The salon was featured on The Only Way is Essex last week when Goodger showed the premises to pal Lydia Bright and her mother Debbie and is named after her line of tanning products.  It had been due to offer spray tans, hair blow dries and hair extensions as well as teeth whitening and HD brows.

Despite somewhat idolising her when she appeared as a contestant on the show and turning into her mini me, Lloyd seems to have forgotten all the aggro Cole went through when she put her through in Judges Houses despite forgetting her words and failing to put on a worthy performance.

The comment came as Lloyd was asked if she would ever sing with Cole during an interview on the Real Breakfast for Real Radio North West show.  She retorted, “Maybe if she sings live with me!” in what seems to be a swipe at Cole using a pre-recorded track when she performed her debut single on The X Factor a few years ago.

It’s not the first time she has spoken about Cole in a bad light, she said recently, “Cheryl understood me and she helped me a lot and so it’s sad that I haven’t heard from her.  But if she wants to give me a ring she can. If not, that’s fine too.”

Cole was obviously not impressed this time and took to Twitter to say, “Be Careful who you kick on your way up… They kick you twice as hard on your way back down #unappreciationisugly.”

You can listen to Lloyd’s full interview here

The North/South divide always gets people going and a recent survey claims that people who live up North are happier than those who live in the South.

Researchers looked at how locals felt about their area, the size and state of their homes, what their neighbours are like and safety levels among 12 measurements of happiness.

They concluded that within the top 10 happy cities, five of them were in the North of England with only 3 Southern towns making the top ten – Norwich, Dorchester and Exeter.   Rather interestingly, nine out of ten of the lowest scoring cities were in the South with Luton, Bedfordshire, being the forth unhappiest in the UK while The East London was deemed the unhappiest place in London.

Rightmove director Miles Shipside said, “This extensive study of over 25,000 people across the UK gives an insight into how happy at home we are as a nation and which factors provide us with the most contentment. Our research provides an interesting challenge to the typical view of the North/South divide.  Neither Carlisle nor the North regularly features at the top of  too many property market league tables.  But this does not appear to be playing on the minds of those who live there too much.”

They are the latest in hi-tech hosiery and promise to take out the mess of applying fake tan as the tights have “micro-fibres in the tights are impregnated with tanning solution. When these come into contact with the skin, the tanning agent starts to develop, leaving your legs perfectly tanned with no more orange palms, patchy ankles and stained carpets.”

Hmm.  Sounds like tights drenched in fake tan to us.

The process: don the soggy tights with the fake tan formula for a couple of hours and voila, you should have perfectly tanned legs.

If you want to give it a go they cost £7.99 from tightsplease.co.uk however we’re not sure it sounds like the best way to get a tan; if you want your legs tanned and glowy we’d prefer to just opt for Marks and Spencer’s tights in Suntan.

It’s one of the most important nights in the film calendar, held between the Golden Globes and the Oscar’s and preparations are being made at London’s Savoy Hotel for the upcoming BAFTAs this Sunday.

Steven Fry will present the ceremony while stars such as Michelle Williams (nominated for My Week With Marilyn) and Meryl Streep (nominated for Iron Lady) are due to attend.

Despite being film awards, there is competition in the fashion stakes too with Daniel Wingate, design director of Escada, saying of the preparations, “If two women have their eye on the same creation, there’s a lot of, er, negotiation over who gets what.  American actresses are often a size 6 or smaller, but British stars, with their 8s and 10s, tend to have more natural shapes.  There’s no right or wrong colour for the red carpet. I wouldn’t dress someone in bright yellow in case they looked like an ad for McDonald’s, but even the right red is OK.  The stars want materials that are comfortable and don’t crease. Millions of eyes are on them and it’s vital they look their best.”

After the awards, a lavish dinner is conducted at the Grosvenor House Hotel, and takes careful planning when you consider as many as 2000 guests (some with egos to boot) and must be sat over two floors.

BAFTAs Head of Production Clare Brown says the seating is “a massive jigsaw puzzle.  By the end, all you can hope is that all the planning worked out and it all looked fantastic. And that everyone there – and the viewers – had a great time,’ she says.”

Check out the full list of nominations below.

NOMINATIONS:

A UK college has become the first to offer a course in how to take pictures on your iPhone.

The college set up the iPhoneography classes because owners don’t know how to use the inbuilt camera to its full effect.

Set up by Richard Gray, who has been a photographer for 25 years, he says that the phone can be used to create incredible images without the need to buy expensive photographic equipment.

He argues that the phone can be used to edit photos with apps instead of photographer’s favourite, Photoshop.

The course is called iPhoneography: An Introduction to Photography with the iPhone, and runs for 5 weeks at Kensington and Chelsea College, London.  It costs £115 and consists of a weekly three hour classroom session.

Mr Gray says that students who enroll on the course will still learn about the essentials of photography such as lighting and composition.

Students are required to use their own iPhone and purchase £20 of apps.

Mr Gray said, “The focus really is on the iPhone apps, there are thousands and thousands of them that you can get. Some are very simple, just applying retro filters, whilst some are more complex and can be used to manually edit photos in the same way you would on a PC.”