Set on October 31 in Cleveland, when the entire city dons fancy dress to trick-or-treat, ‘Fun Size’ is the sort of upbeat coming-of-age story that John Hughes made almost 30 years ago.

An Australian woman was today sentenced to nine months of community service work for smuggling protected fish from Asia in her dress.

A bird flu outbreak that killed four children in Turkey this month seems to have stabilised after authorities destroyed 1.5 million fowl to contain the virus, and no human cases have been reported since January 18.

A ticket-sale blunder outside Hampden Park before tonight’s Celtic versus Rangers legends game could have left the nominated charities with nothing, according to one of the game’s organisers, Rory Nicoll.