Teddy stays . . . at a price
BRITAIN'S most expensive Teddy bear has gone on sale in Suffolk - with a price tag of half a million pounds.
BRITAIN'S most expensive Teddy bear has gone on sale in Suffolk - with a price tag of half a million pounds.
But the buyer of the cuddly toy will also get the bear's home - a beamed cottage in Lavenham - one of the country's most picturesque medieval villages.
The three-foot bear - which belonged to homeowner Walt McKinlay's daughter - is now in the window of the property with a "buy me" sign.
Mr McKinlay, 73, a retired butcher and farmer, said: “It is time for me to move on so I decided that Teddy might help me sell the house. I have already had a lot of interest and a couple of viewings after property hunters saw him in the window.
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“He was originally given to my late wife by her parents and then our daughter Sadie had him but she is 44 now."
The new owner will have to pay �495,000 for the Teddy bear and the 17th century property in the village's ancient market square.
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The former public house, now called Christmas Cottage, has also been a tea room and book shop and has two bedrooms and a small rear garden.
Lavenham, described by one architectural expert as the finest surviving medieval village in England, boasts more than 300 listed Grade I and 2 buildings and its streets of lime-washed timbered homes attract more than a third of a million visitors every year.
