Bees knees

(Photograph) - Bees knees: James Hamill, actor and beekeeper, has won a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship worth Pounds 6,000 to study ways of tackling the disease threatening to wipe out Britain's wild colonies of bees. Mr Hamill, who comes from three generations of beekeepers, is one of 160 men and women receiving this year's scholarships, designed to advance education in modern and traditional crafts and trades.