Those seeking a healthy January have a helping hand in the form of the high street’s first pea juice.
Following the success of the Brussels sprout smoothie, Marks & Spencer has launched peas in liquid form for people on a New Year health kick or who simply like the idea of drinking the vegetable.
M&S has combined the vegetable with apple, lime and mint to aid jaded palates. Peas are high in fibre, protein, vitamins A, B6, C and K and zinc and iron. (PA)
Toddler trouble for UK mother
A mother had to be rescued by fire crews after being locked in a cupboard – by her one-year-old toddler.
Police asked Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service to attend the woman’s home in Radford Park Drive, Plymstock, Devon, after the woman managed to alert her next door neighbours.
“Crews used small tools and a triple extension ladder to gain access and release the adult from the cupboard,” a fire spokesman said. The mother was reunited with her child. (PA)
Divorce for second time around
Elon Musk and his wife are divorcing for a second time.
The entrepreneur and his wife, Talulah Riley, issued a joint statement announcing they were splitting amicably after they remarried in July 2013 following their previous breakup. The couple has been living apart for five months while Riley writes and directs her first feature film, Scottish Mussel, in the UK.
A spokeswoman says Musk, who made his fortune co-founding PayPal and has gone on to start SpaceX and Tesla Motors, filed for divorce on New Year’s Eve and has agreed to give Riley $16 million in a financial settlement. The couple first wed in 2010 and divorced in 2012. Musk announced the first divorce on Twitter. (PA)
Model mayhem for football team
It seems that sharing a hotel with 400 Russian models is not every sportsman’s idea of a good time.
German third division football team Duisburg changed the hotel booking for a winter training camp in Turkey next week after learning that the hotel they had reserved is hosting a pageant of Russian models.
Duisburg said the club wants to “prepare calmly” for matches and the original hotel might also have been overbooked. (PA)
Burning tradition for the French
France’s Interior Ministry said 940 cars were set alight by revellers ringing in the new year – 12 per cent fewer than the 1,067 torched last year.
The figures show that, despite the dip, setting fire to parked cars remains a firmly entrenched way for some French to send out the old and ring in the new.
Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said numerous cars were burned around the country, particularly in the east, as well as in suburban Paris, notably the Seine-Saint-Denis region – where fiery riots around France started in 2005. (PA)
Police chief’s slip of the trigger
A US police chief reported accidentally shooting his wife early on New Year’s Day.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Sherry Lang said Peachtree City police Chief William McCollom called 911 and reported he had accidentally shot his wife Margaret. She was flown to hospital where she was in a critical condition.
Peachtree City officials said McCollom had been placed on administrative leave until an investigation and internal review are complete. No charges have been filed. (PA)
Puppy’s 2,400-mile US road trip
A puppy called Penny could be reunited with her worry-stricken US owners this weekend after she went on a nearly 2,400-mile road trip that took her to an Iowa truck stop and a Pennsylvania pet hospital.
The floppy-eared Vizsla has one more stop before returning home to Washington state. She has to travel from Pennsylvania, where she has been in foster care, to the District of Columbia for a free ride home from US carrier Alaska Airlines, her owners said in a message on a Facebook page devoted to finding her. (Reuters)