D Tuesday, October 13, 2009 METRO proud sponsors of THE APPRENTICE ART experts believe a new Leonardo Da Vinci portrait may have been discovered thanks to a fingerprint. The work has previously been catalogued as German, early 19th century, and has changed hands in recent years for around $19,000 (13,000). But an antiques magazine has reported that the work could be worth tens of millions of euro. A Paris laboratory has found that a fingerprint on the picture is highly comparable to one on Da Vincis St Jerome in the Vatican, which was painted early in the artists career when he was thought not to use assistants. The magazine said that infrared analysis showed significant stylistic parallels with those in Da Vincis Portrait Of A Woman In Profile in Windsor Castle and shows that the drawing was made by a left- handed artist, as Da Vinci is known to have been. The portrait is due to go on display in Sweden next year. Old fingerprint may point to a new Da Vinci Textbook error: The cake that started it all for Jennifer Yates with its obvious spelling error Pictures: Barcroft AN X-RAY machine which produces naked images of passengers was introduced at an airport yesterday, enabling staff to instantly spot any hidden weapons or explosives. The full body scanner, being tested at Manchester Airport, will also show up any breast enlargements, false limbs, piercings, and a clear outline of passengers private parts. Travellers who dont want to be scanned because of the graphic nature of the images can refuse and opt for the traditional pat down search instead. But the black and white image will only be seen by one officer in a remote location before it is deleted, Sarah Barrett, head of customer experience at the airport, said. The UKs Department for Transport will decide whether to install them permanently at the end of the trial, which is expected to last for a year. Airport trial for naked image scans THE next time you place an order for a special cake be sure your instruc- tions are crystal clear and never take it for granted that your baker can ac- tually spell. That is the advice of Jennifer Yates who has pulled together a host of ex- amples of catastrophic efforts of bak- ers from around the world. The 31-year-old developed an inter- est in deformed, distasteful and bi- zarrely decorated confectionary after taking cake decoration classes with her husband, John, last year. When my friend Abby e-mailed me the famous Under Neat That cake the idea for the book just hit me and it dovetailed nicely with my new hob- by. I think I started the Cake Wrecks blog that very night and it was al- ways just for fun. I never thought any- Gallery of cake decorations that really take the biscuit What a miscakeBY MILES ERWIN one other than a few friends would read it. But since starting the blog in May 2008, Mrs Yates has been inun- dated with hilarious examples from around the world. These days its not unusual to get 50 submissions a day she said. Not all of those are post-worthy, of course, but it definitely gives me lots of material to work with. Simple misspellings are the most common but even those can be hilari- ous when I Love You becomes I Lave You or Happy Fatherhood becomes Happy Falker Satherhood. You have to wonder what was go- ing through the bakers mind on some of these. Going on sale just two weeks ago, Mrs Yates is already getting positive feedback from fans. Thats so important to me as I wrote Cake Wrecks for them, she added. What were some of these bakers thinking? Messed up: Not so happy birthday Near miss: Thaks but no thaks Baby talk: Icing on the cake Askew: Words dont come easy index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html