Crash frees millions of bees

Police in Canada warned drivers near Toronto to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled crates carrying five million bees onto a road. The crates containing beehives came loose from a truck and spilled onto Guelph Line, in Burlington, Ontario. Speaking to the BBC, beekeeper Michael Barber said he was confronted with a “pretty crazy cloud of bees” when he arrived at the scene, unlike anything he had experienced in his 11-year career. “I hope to never experience it again,” he added.

Wheel of cheese goes for $32,000

A 4.8-pound wheel of cheese broke a world record when it was auctioned for more than $32,000, reported UPI. The Cabrales blue cheese, manufactured by Guillermo Pendás at his family’s Spanish factory and aged in the mountain caves of Asturias, took top honours at the 51st annual Cabrales Cheese Competition in Las Arenas. The purchaser was no stranger to splashing out on fromage: he previously set the Guinness World Record for most expensive cheese sold at auction when he bought a wheel of Cabrales for $22,129 in 2019.

Pret worker trapped in freezer

A worker at Pret A Manger was trapped in one of its freezers for more than two hours and tried to use croissant boxes to stave off hypothermia. The employee was wearing jeans and a T-shirt at the coffee and sandwich chain’s Victoria coach station shop when she became trapped in the walk-in commercial freezer, which typically has its temperature set at -18C. The sandwich chain told The Times it has “carried out a full review” and “worked with the manufacturer to develop a solution to stop this from happening again”.

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