Daily Mirror - 19.08.2019

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Macca:

Love me

choo...

He puts coins on train

track to flatten them

for playing his guitar

wearing shorts, T-shirt and a

Team GB Olympic cap, placed

a dozen one-cent coins on

the Long Island Rail Road in

New York’s Hamptons.

Several musicians,

including Queen’s Brian May,

have used flattened coins for

their guitars because the

metal is strong.

Macca was once said to

have worn acrylic nails to

stop his fingers bleeding, but

returned to a plectrum.

His pick-trick could

cost him, as it is

against US law to

deface a coin or

note, punishable by

a fine if an attempt

is made to use the

money again.

chris.bucktin

@mirror.co.uk

@cbucktin

GENIUS Engineer Brunel

Brunel’s scrawl decoded

A COMPUTER is being trained to

decode the indecipherable hand-

writing of the British engineer

Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

A program designed by

researchers at the SS Great Britain

Trust can read 65% of his words

by building a profile based on

previously transcribed work.

It gives valuable insights into

the theories of the genius behind

the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

The trust said: “Brunel’s hand-

writing style is particularly tricky.” SPOOKY Jade and mum

Mother sees Jade’s ghost

JADE Goody’s mum says she will

never leave her family home as

she still sees her daughter’s ghost.

Jackiey Budden, 61, said the

reality star, who died in 2009 at 27,

wanted her to move out of her flat

in Bermondsey, South London.

She tells a C4 documentary: “Jade

said, ‘You’re gonna die in that flat’

but there’s so many good memo-

ries here. I can walk down the

river and look into the sky and I

don’t know how silly it might

sound but I have seen Jade.”

EXCLUSIVE

BY CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN

US Editor

SIR Paul McCartney heads

to the long and winding

railroad track to pick up

new guitar plectrums.

Plucky Paul left coins on

the rails near his home so

trains could flatten them.

The Beatles legend

returned later to collect

them. An onlooker said: “He

laid a load of coins down and

left them.

“Normally it’s kids who

leave them on the track,

not a 77-year-old

grandad. It was only

when he returned did

the penny drop

• perfect plec-
  trums.” Macca,

HEY SHREWD

Paul picks spot

for making new

plectrums

PENNIES LAIN

The coins after

being flattened

RAIL THING Mac on stage