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Smashing vases

Updated on 30 January 2006

By Nicholas Glass

What the mobile phone saw when a man fell into three priceless Chinese vases at the Fitzwilliam musuem.


What the mobile phone saw when a man fell into three priceless Chinese vases at the Fitzwilliam musuem.

What the mobile phone saw when a man fell into three priceless Chinese vases at the Fitzwilliam musuem.

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If there was ever a reason to make sure your shoelaces are tied, this was it.

A hapless visitor to the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge managed to trip over his laces, fall down a marble staircase and in the process knock over three 18th century vases.

Smashing them all to pieces. The museum, which won't name the man responsible, say the vases - worth a whopping £150,000 - will be pieced back together.

Our arts correspondent Nicholas Glass has the full story

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