A retired firefighter used 80,000 matchsticks to create a model of York Minster - which he will torch if he cannot give away.

He says that if he would have known when he started this nearly 50 years ago that he'd be making, for example, the largest matchstick model in the world, a matchstick train that measures 22 feet ...

[Valentin] is the MacGyver of model rocketry, building a small rocket out of three items many people have hanging around the house. Cat litter, matchsticks, and a ballpoint pen are the raw ...

However, his wife has asked him to give away his model of York Minster, as it was taking up too much room in the house. Listen: Clive and his daughter on the two-year build of the matchstick ...

Writing on the York Minster Facebook page, they said: "There's something poetic about this matchstick model coming to light (no pun intended) during the 40th anniversary of our last major fire in ...

Pat Acton, a former career counselor in central Iowa, spent some 1,000 hours a year between 2007 and 2010 building a matchstick model of the mythic Minas Tirith city from Lord of the Rings.

Writing on the York Minster Facebook page, they said: "There's something poetic about this matchstick model coming to light (no pun intended) during the 40th anniversary of our last major fire in ...

Of course, fashion would always demand slimness - but matchstick models were out. So did the glossies keep their promises? An analysis of this month's glossy magazines suggests they have.

Here we have a model of Buckingham Palace made entirely of 39,000 matchsticks by the owner's great grandfather, William Moyer. Moyer approached the palace to get the exact dimensions in 1957 and ...

Obsessive-compulsive con artist, Roy, and his partner-in-crime, Frank, find their lives turned upside-down when Roy's teenage daughter, Angela, arrives and decides to earn her place as one of the ...