Crazy World: Bizarre museum sells leftovers...

£300 for a piece of Prince Charles's leftover pudding!

CORNWALL: The Museum of Celebrity Leftovers wants the owner-to-be to fork out £300 for a spoonful of bread and butter pudding.

The bizarre museum also wants £100 for a smidgen of lemon drizzle cake discarded by film director Michael Winner, reports Daily Mail.

The museum was created by Michael and Francesca Bennett at their Old Boatstore cafe in Kingsand, Cornwall.

‘The Museum of Leftovers’ has become a cottage industry on websites such as Ebay. ‘You are buying a bit of those celebrities’ lives,’ Bennett told the daily.

In 2004, a piece of gum apparently chewed by  Britney Spears and spat out in central London was sold on eBay for £320, and a piece of gum chewed by and a piece of French toast left half uneaten by Justin Timberlake fetched around £1,900 on Ebay.
 
Monkeys take over hospital after mastering automatic doors
 
NEW DELHI: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi recently installed a new entry system – with unforeseen consequences.

Monkeys soon worked out how to use the motion-censor doors and have since been running amok in the wards, kitchens and corridors.

They have terrorised patients in the neurosurgery department and recovery rooms, stealing food, playing with medical equipment, attacking staff and generally causing chaos.

An unnamed doctor told the Times of India about one of his encounters with the red-bottomed monkeys.

'I was at the patient recovery room when a nurse cried out that a monkey had sneaked in,' he said.

'The monkey had somehow entered the main corridor and was hiding in the false roof. As soon as the security guard moved away, it jumped inside. The doors open once they detect any movement, and this is how the simian got in.'

With an average of one monkey bite case in the hospital every week, authorities have taken steps to scare off the macaques.

They have hired two larger monkeys - grey langurs – to chase them away.
 
Father fined £1,000 for warning families about a paedophile

BRITAIN: A father who warned another parent about a convicted paedophile has been fined £1,000 and found guilty of harassing the sex offender, reports Daily Mail.

The man was horrified to find his ex-wife’s new husband – stepfather to his daughter, 11 – had served three jail terms for sex crimes. The father raised the alarm when he learnt that four of his daughter’s friends had been invited to the family home for a sleepover to celebrate her birthday.

The stepfather had apparently been sentenced in the past for molesting two 12-year-old girls as they slept at his house, said the daily.

When the father showed the mother  of one girl a newspaper clipping revealing the stepfather’s convictions, all the parents stopped their children going to the sleepover, the paper learnt.

The father also made repeated phone calls to his ex-wife and her husband. Consequently, the father was arrested and convicted of harassment and fined £1,000.

The father said he spoke out because he would have ‘felt responsible’ if one of the children at the sleepover had been harmed.
 
3 hours exercise a day for toddlers

BRITAIN: Children under five years of age should exercise for at least three hours a day, Britain's new guidelines say.

Toddlers should walk for at least 15 minutes when on routine journeys such as trips to the nursery, reports The Sun. Government health experts believe babies should be taken swimming and encouraged to do "gymnastic exercise" as well.

Move comes amidst growing fears over spiralling childhood obesity.

NHS figures show nearly a quarter of youngsters aged four and five are overweight or obese. In fact, experts predict that 63 per cent of children could be overweight by 2050 if the trend continues, said the paper.

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