'Da Vinci' a code for charity disaster

A charity shop is urging people to stop donating The Da Vinci Code after becoming overwhelmed with copies.

The Oxfam shop in Swansea, UK, has been receiving an average of one copy of the Dan Brown novel a day for months.

The staff, who are struggling to sell copies of the book, have put a note up in the store saying that they would prefer donors to hand in their vinyl instead.

The sign reads: "You could give us another Da Vinci Code but we would rather have your vinyl! We urgently need more records to help keep our customers happy and make more money for Oxfam."

Shop manager Phil Broadhurst said: "It's funny because with the Dan Brown sign people laugh and take a picture.

"I would say that we get one copy of the book every day. We still occasionally get a few people buying them but we would rather have records. Our sales of them have increased 25% in the past year."

The Oxfam shop hit a similar problem last year with second-hand copies of Fifty Shades of Grey - forcing it to tell donors: "Please - no more."