A five-year-old boy managed to rack up a £1,700 bill in just a few minutes as he played with his parents’ iPad.
Danny Kitchen innocently ran up the debt by playing a game on the tablet device, which automatically billed his parents as he progressed. His parents had provided the schoolboy with a password for the game after he told them it was a free download.
Despite receiving several e-mails from iTunes the next day itemising the successive £69.99 payments Danny incurred, the Kitchens, from Bristol, dismissed them as an error – until a call from their credit card company made them realise what had happened.
Mrs Kitchen said Apple, the company which owns and runs iTunes, had been “fantastic” in helping them get a refund for the money. (PA)
Batman helps Yorkshire police
A man dressed as Batman walked into a police station in England and handed over a wanted man to officers.
“I’ve caught this one for you” Batman said as he handed over a wanted alleged criminal. West Yorkshire Police said they do not know the identify of the man who took the 27-year-old into Trafalgar House police station in Bradford.
The wanted man had been sought by police in connection with a number of alleged offences.
Animals exploited in crime
Four lions and two bears have been removed from the estate of a notorious Romanian gangster, who reportedly used them to threaten his victims.
Ion Balint, 48, was arrested with dozens of others on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, blackmail and possessing illegal weapons.
Officials and animal charity workers tranquillised the animals, carried them on stretchers into cages and transported them to a zoo.
Horse meat in UK school
Horse meat has been found in minced beef served in school dinners in Leicestershire, a council has confirmed.
Leicestershire County Council said tests showed the beef contained less than one per cent trace of horse DNA and has been permanently removed from school menus.
The council, which supplies 224 schools across the county, confirmed there is no health risk to pupils.
A second item to be tested, a beef grill steak, was found to contain no trace of horse DNA and has been reinstated in menus.
A spokeswoman for the council said its school food service buys fresh and local produce within the UK and 90% of the menu is produced from scratch each day.
Pussy Riot director raided
A Swiss theatre director has said Russian immigration officials barged into a Moscow theatre where he was re-enacting a play based on the trial of punk band Pussy Riot in order to check his documents.
Milo Rau said the officials interrupted the play yesterday but the raid quickly petered out when it turned out his visa was in order. The warrant they used also had a wrong address on it, he said.
“It was more Kafka than Stalin,” he said yesterday.
Mr Rau was directing a three-day re-enactment of trials against Russian artists, including Pussy Riot who staged an impromptu anti-Putin protest in Moscow’s main cathedral last year.