Hairy Treat

A jam made from Princess Diana's hair was sold out within days for about $7 a pot. Makers Bompas and Parr created the preserve for a surrealist exhibition at London's Barbican Exibition. The controversial conserve uses a speck of her hair purchased from a US dealer on eBay, the Daily Express reported on its website on Sunday. The jam could soon hit supermarket shelves after top retailers showed an interest in stocking it. Sam Bompas, who founded the catering company with school friend Henry Parr three years ago, said: "The milk jam takes a speck of Princess Diana's hair and infuses it in gin before it is turned into jam"

Italy for sale

Benito Mussolini's granddaughter demanded a police investigation on Friday after the late Italian dictator's blood and brain were reportedly offered for sale on eBay, the online auction website. The initial asking price was 15,000 euros, or £13,000, but nobody had had a chance to bid, eBay said. The online auctioneer does not permit the sale of body parts on its website and removed the listing hours after it was posted. Miss Mussolini said the remains could have been stolen from a hospital in Milan where an autopsy was carried out on the dictator's body after he was killed and strung up by partisans at the end of the Second World War.