Cathedral tops wonders vote

Staff discovered last week more than �100,000 had been put into the bank account of the 900-year-old cathedral.

The Dean of Lincoln, the Very Reverend Alec Knight, said it was known a donation was coming, but the amount was "a surprise".

Lincoln Cathedral recently topped a BBC poll to find "The Seven Wonders of the East Midlands", winning votes from as far afield as the US and Australia.