A pub proved popular with voters after being converted into a polling station for the day.
The Hare and Hounds, in Corsham, Wiltshire, has been used as a polling station since 2010 and many voters enjoy a pint after casting their ballot.
Landlord Mark Foster, 41, is licensed to serve alcohol at the pub from 8am, an hour after voting began, but began at 11am on polling day. (PA)
Breast checks live on television
TV show This Morning got a mixed response when it conducted breast examinations live on the programme.
Two models – one female and one male - disrobed in the studio to get checked under the full gaze of the cameras on the programme.
Doctor Chris Steele carried out the examinations after Phillip Schofield, who was co-hosting the ITV show with Amanda Holden, warned viewers with young children about the segment. Liz Beswick wrote on Twitter: “Wow daytime TV has changed”. @djjamesthecat wrote: “This Morning will do literally anything to get viewers!” (PA)
Penguin chicks hatch in Scotland
The first penguin chicks of the season have hatched at a city zoo.
Edinburgh Zoo welcomed its first gentoo penguin this year on Monday while a second chick hatched two days later.
Both of the hatchlings are in the same nest, which is marked C7 on the zoo’s online penguin map and can be seen on the penguin cam (www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/penguin-cam/). Another egg has already started to crack and should hatch shortly, with the rest of the eggs hatching over the next few weeks. (PA)
Baby monkey named Charlotte
A zoo in Japan has apologised for naming a baby monkey Charlotte after the newborn British princess following complaints from the Japanese public.
Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden was flooded with calls and emails hours after it announced the name for its first-born monkey of the year, a tradition at the city-run zoo in southern Japan.
Charlotte was the top choice in a public ballot, receiving 59 votes out of 853 cast in just over a month until yesterday, when the female macaque monkey was born. (PA)
Polite bank robber claims no guilt
A man arrested by police in Virginia for robbing a bank posted a photo and videos of the theft on Instagram – but said he should not be charged because he did not threaten anyone and asked for the money politely.
Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca was arrested about 20 minutes after a TowneBank branch in Virginia Beach was robbed. The 23-year-old told news media outlets in interviews from jail that he posted a photo and two videos to Instagram. He did not explain why, but said if it had been a real robbery he would never have done so.
The note asked the bank teller to wait for a minute after he had gone to ring the alarm, and said to “make sure the money doesn’t blow up” on his way out. (PA)
Confiscated Snowden bust back
Two activists who put a bust of Edward Snowden on a New York park’s war monument have been ticketed and got their confiscated statue back.
Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider told the Associated Press after the statue’s return that they felt it sparked conversation about freedom. It appeared on a Revolutionary War memorial in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park early on April 6. Parks officials quickly ordered the unauthorised artistic statement to be removed.
Greenspan and Tider were issued summonses for being in a park after hours, a non-criminal violation. They strove to keep their identities veiled from the public after the episode. A New York gallery has said it wants to display the statue at a show opening. (PA)