Weird World: the ultimate Valentine

A Hollywood film photographer has bought his girlfriend the ultimate Valentine's Day gift - a gift-wrapped house. Jasin Boland used 5,000 sq ft of wrapping and a 75 ft-long ribbon to cover the £500,000 house for fiancée, Maria Moral Pena. Then he flew Miss Pena, 29, in by helicopter to see the four-bedroom waterfront home, reports the Daily Telegraph.

It took five workmen using two cherry-pickers three hours to wrap the house in monoperm, a synthetic fibre usually used for covering scaffolding.

Mr Boland set up the surprise by telling his fiancée they were going house hunting. She said: "At first, in the helicopter, I didn't realise what was going on. When I saw the wrapped house, I thought it was a construction area. Then when I saw the hearts, I was completely overwhelmed. He's just so cute."