Small's well...Bard's portrait in a needle

AN artist injected Botox around his eyelids to stop any muscle twitches disturbing him while he engraved the smallest portrait of Shakespeare.

- Adam Dutton

Graham Short spent hundreds of hours etching the Bard's features on to a speck of 9ct gold which he mounted in the eye of a needle.

The work, which is so tiny it needs a microscope for people to see it, is being sold for £24,000. Each hair on the writer's head is 50 microns wide - half that of human hair.