Singletons who believe in love at first sight can turn to new apps that will match them with potential dates in time for Valentine’s Day, but only if each person has expressed an interest.
With the new dating apps, users simply flip through photos of people in nearby locations and express their interest in dating someone.
If there is a mutual attraction, the app connects them for a conversation.
If not, their feelings will remain anonymous.
“It limits the conversations to people you’ve actually expressed an interest in.
“So each of those conversations starts at a very deep level,” said Sean Rad, co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based company Tinder, which developed the app of the same name.
Makers of the Tinder app, which is available worldwide for iPhone, said it has matched more than 10 million couples since it was launched in September. Rad said most users are between 18 and 30 years old. (Reuters)
Uganda to deport play producer
Ugandan authorities said they plan to deport a British heatre producer who was charged last year with staging a play about homosexuality.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda and David Cecil, 35, was charged with disobeying a public official last September after ignoring official orders to cancel a theatre production with a gay leading character. A court dropped the charges against him last month due to lack of evidence. Cecil, who denied being a gay rights activist, would have faced two to four years in jail if convicted.
Even so, “the process of removing him from the country is on,” Uganda’s director for immigration, Godfrey Sasagah, said yesterday. (Reuters)
Cameron steps up his fitness
David Cameron appears to be stepping up his fitness drive after booking another 50 sessions with a personal trainer.
The Prime Minister, a keen jogger and tennis player, has disclosed the latest sessions with trainer-to-the-stars Matt Roberts in the Commons register of interests.
Mr Cameron has received a discount of £7,500 (€8,760) – or £150 (€176) per session - which has been declared as a donation. But the premier has given money to a charity of Mr Roberts’ choice in return. A previous register entry from December 2011 revealed that Samantha Cameron was also benefiting from the cut-price training.
However, the latest edition does not mention the Prime Minister’s wife. (PA)
14th Century bronze jug charge
A man has admitted handling a 14th century bronze jug that had been stolen from a museum.
Ronald Nash, 23, from Tadworth, Surrey, pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods at Luton Crown Court today.
The Wenlok jug, valued at £750,000, was taken from a high security display cabinet at the Stockwood Discovery Centre in Luton last May.
No one has yet been charged in connection with the theft, a Bedfordshire Police spokeswoman said.
The jug, which is 31.5cm high (12ins) and weighs 6.1kg (13lbs), is decorated with coats of arms and is inscribed with the words My Lord Wenlock. It is believed to have been made for either William Wenlock, who died in 1391 and was canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, or his great-nephew John, the first Lord Wenlock, who was a leading figure in the 15th century. (PA)