A police charge sheet signed by The Beatles in Newcastle has sold for thousands of pounds at auction.
The autographs were obtained at the height of Beatlemania in 1963, following the band's concert at Newcastle's City Hall. And they were collected by the Newcastle police chief constable's driver at the time, who drove The Beatles from their concert to their hotel in a police van.
The driver took the opportunity to ask bandmembers John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to sign the only piece of paper he had to hand - a police charge sheet for motoring offences.
