From a villa of bees to a £7 onion: online deliveries take a strange turn

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Most online deliveries do not come with a health warning from the delivery driver but David Smith received one from a relieved courier who, on handing over Smith's buzzing box, suggested the bees inside were a bit angry".

Rather than new clothes or groceries the 60-year-old Smith had turned to the web to buy a bumblebee colony and villa" to house them. I decided that my garden needed bees and the bees needed a home," he says. They have given me a summer of pleasure and I'll do it again next year."