Divers discover champagne 'on ice'

A secret stash of bubbly kept “on ice” for nearly 50 years inside a shipwreck on the bed of the English Channel has been creating some fizz around the dining tables of the divers who unearthed it, it was revealed today.

The treasure trove of 20,000 half bottles of champagne, thought to be of a 1950s vintage, was discovered buried in silt in the hold of a sunken French cargo ship.