QUIRKY WORLD ... Cat-astrophe averted: Furry tail ending as posted puss is feline fine after special delivery
‘Cupcake’ travelled with an order of DVDs from Falmouth in Cornwall to West Sussex, more than 260 miles away. Her owners sealed and posted the parcel two weeks ago, and it arrived safely at its destination eight days later.
The recipient was stunned to discover a dehydrated Cupcake inside the box along with the DVDs.
The RSPCA took the cat to Grove Lodge Vets in Worthing for a health check. Cupcake’s owner, Julie Baggott, later travelled there from Falmouth to be reunited with the cat.
“When I realised she was missing two weeks ago it was the most horrible, scary feeling,” she told the BBC.
Costing dearly
More than £5bn (€6.3bn) was spent on dating across the UK last year — and British singles tend to spend more than many of their European counterparts on the quest for romance, according to a report.
Analysis from the Centre for Economics and Business Research found that the UK’s date-related spending came to £5.16bn in 2015, up from £4.05bn in 2014.
The research, for dating website Match, found the average cost of a date is £127 for both people, including clothing, gifts, cosmetics, trips to hairdressers, and contraceptives. The biggest chunk of the average spend goes towards entertainment, restaurants, and pubs.
Leaving the EU could cut the cost of Easter eggs, pro-Brexit campaigners have claimed.
Unilateral trade deals with chocolate-producing countries Indonesia, Nigeria, and Brazil could remove “punitive tariffs” imposed by Brussels on imports of cocoa-based sweet treats, Vote Leave said.
Spokesman Robert Oxley said consumers “will be hopping mad to find out that the EU is actually making Easter more egg-spensive”.
But chief campaign spokesman for Britain Stronger in Europe James McGrory said: “These claims just don’t stack up,” adding: “Voters across the country won’t be fooled — they can tuck in to their Easter eggs safe in the knowledge we are stronger, safer, and better off in Europe rather than taking a leap into the dark.”
Diners scattered when a man dropped a 13ft python on the floor of a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles.
Police officer Drake Madison said the man had argued with an employee and stormed out of Iroha Sushi of Tokyo in Studio City.
Mr Madison said that, a short time later, the man returned with the giant snake, threw it into the dining room and walked out again. The man was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats. Nobody was hurt.
The python was taken by animal control officers.
A man has chosen to wear a sign proclaiming he is a thief rather than go to jail for theft in Ohio.
Greg Davenport, 43, of Liberty Township, pleaded no contest this month to a theft charge for stealing merchandise from a Wal-Mart store in the township in December. A judge found Davenport guilty but gave him the sentencing option of wearing a sign saying “I am a thief. I stole from Wal-Mart” or serving 30 days in jail.
Davenport has to wear the sign in front of the store eight hours a day for 10 days of his choosing. Davenport says the sign is better than being in jail, and he just wants to finish his punishment.
The Alabama city of Selma is planning a crackdown on what one councillor says is a big problem — horse droppings.
The city council passed a law three years ago requiring that horses wear nappies when on city streets, but Michael Johnson says riders are not following the law.
Mr Johnson says he does not mind people riding horses in the city of 20,000 people, but he is bothered by the smell and other sanitary problems created by horses on city streets.
Investigators in Pennsylvania are trying to find out who left more than 40 dead ducks along a rural road last week.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said the ducks were placed on the road after already being killed. Agriculture spokeswoman Brandi-Hunter Davenport said tests determined they did not die of disease.
The birds were left along a road in southern Lancaster County on March 16.
The birds died of some kind of trauma and were likely dropped from a vehicle that drove along the road.
Police are investigating.
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