One in 14 schoolchildren in Britain does not know that cheese is a dairy product, figures suggest.

Education Quizzes said seven per cent of youngsters do not know which food group cheese belongs to. The exam revision service also found that almost a third of children do not know that fruit and vegetables provide essential vitamins and fibre.

The organisation said too many children are “fundamentally clueless” about basic health and nutrition facts.

The figures were based on 1.6 million answers to quizzes undertaken by children aged seven to 16.

Hungry bees may travel far

Hungry bumblebees travel more than a mile to find food, a study has found.

Ecologists took samples from more than 3,000 living bees from five different species and mapped how far they travelled from their nest.

The study, led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, found that, while on average the insects would travel between 268 to 553 metres, bees living in areas where there were fewer flowers would fly more than two kilometres.

Talking of sex on campus

The student-run newspaper at Pennsylvania State University is bringing back its sex column.

The Daily Collegian dropped the column in November 2011, shortly after retired Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexual molestation. Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse and is serving a decades-long state prison sentence. He maintains he is innocent.

The Collegian’s editor has announced a new sex column called Let’s Talk About Sex, penned by a female columnist with a companion piece by a male columnist.

Editor-in-chief Brittany Horn said that “on a campus like Penn State, we’re lying if we say sex isn’t highly discussed”.

Guru is arrested over rape

Police have arrested a controversial spiritual guru on a rape charge made by a teenage girl in northwest India.

Asaram Bapu was arrested at an Indian spiritual retreat yesterday and flown to the city of Jodhpur where police say he is wanted for raping a 16-year-old girl.

The girl filed a complaint two weeks ago accusing the Hindu religious preacher of raping her when she visited his retreat in Jodhpur with her mother.

Bapu outraged many Indians earlier this year when he said the victim of a gang rape on a New Delhi bus would have been let off if she had addressed her attackers as brothers.

Giant Jurassic 16-metre fish

The biggest fish ever to swim in the sea grew to the astonishing length of 16.5 metres, research has shown.

It sounds like a fisherman’s tale. But the giant Jurassic fish Leedsichthys, that lived 165 million years ago, was a true monster, scientists claim.

Calculations based on fragments of fossil skeleton suggest it grew to eight or nine metres in 20 years and reach 16.5 metres in 38 years.

Scientists believe Leedsichthys was the whale of its day, living on enormous quantities of plankton.