A man has supersized his childhood hobby of making model Airfix kits by buying a full size Spitfire - that he keeps in his back garden. Aviation worker Ian Fox, 55, bought the fibreglass replica ...

In a bid to show that old toys such as Meccano and Lego are still relevant, James May gets a class of schoolchildren to help him build a life-size Airfix model of a Spitfire.

It is a toy forever associated with Spitfire planes and boys in short trousers getting glue on their fingers. But exactly 60 years after its first model aeroplane went on sale for two shillings at ...