Nature lovers have been warned to keep their windows, doors and roof boxes firmly shut as they visit a new monkey drive-through at Blair Drummond Safari Park.
Visitors can now get up close and personal with a troop of 30 Barbary macaques at the five-acre park near Stirling, Scotland.
Park manager Gary Gilmour said: “The macaques are very inquisitive and will investigate novel items.”
Cereal offenders strike in Scotland
A trailer loaded with £45,000 worth of Kellogg’s breakfast bars has been stolen from a lorry park in south-west Scotland.
The cereal offenders made off with an articulated trailer in red Curries livery from the Lockerbie lorry park at Johnstonebridge, Dumfries and Galloway.
Police said the trailer was loaded with more than nine tonnes of the bars, estimated to be worth around £45,000.
Train company biggest loo-sers
Toilets on trains run by First TransPennine Express have generated a greater volume of complaints than any other rail company in the UK.
Facilities in TransPennine carriages were responsible for 2.7% of all complaints made by its passengers in April-June 2015.
The figure is over a third higher than a year ago.
Jailhouse rock for songwriter
US singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge said a video of female inmates singing one of her songs led to her performing with them at a prison.
The singer performed solo for about 2,300 inmates at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. They sat on a recreation field at the Marysville facility as Etheridge sang a few songs and offered encouragement from a small stage.
She said she had been moved by a video of inmates in an addiction recovery group singing A Little Bit Of Me. She closed with the song and invited members of the group to come up and sing with her. She later visited their dormitory, where she left her autographed handprints in paint on the wall and encouraged them to contact her when they are released.
Space burgers for cosmonauts
Hamburgers could soon be debuting on Russian menus in space.
While a variety of ethnic and fast foods ranging from hamburgers to chicken teriyaki are generally available for US astronauts, Russian cosmonauts generally tackle more traditional fare such as borscht, cottage cheese and caviar. The research institute responsible for designing meals for cosmonauts said it would not be opposed to including the American fast-food staple.
Alexander Agureyev, who oversees catering for the International Space Station at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said proposals to change space menus have been plentiful since space food began to be mass produced in 2011. Astronauts’ menus are generally made up of refrigerated, dehydrated and canned foods with long shelf lives.
Woman finds cobra in her dryer
A king cobra snake that went missing was found weeks later under a dryer in a garage not far from its owner’s home near Orlando.
A homeowner called Orange County Animal Services after she heard hissing sounds while putting clothes in her dryer. Wildlife officers found the 8ft snake under the dryer.
They had been searching for it since September 2, the day after its owner returned home from a trip and discovered it was missing. Orlando television stations reported the snake has been returned to owner Mike Kennedy. He pleaded not guilty this week to a misdemeanour charge for failing to immediately report the snake missing.