London - The ashes of an eccentric British peer were fired from an 18th century cannon to their final resting place - a wooded copse on his country estate.
The 7th Lord Newborough, a war hero with a colourful past, left his son specific instructions about his offbeat farewell. His heir duly obliged on the family's Denbighshire estate, firing off his ashes in a steel canister. The cannon burst briefly into flames and rolled down a hill but safely propelled the ashes into the copse.