Four ex-circus lions have arrived safely at their new home in Scotland after being transported from an animal sanctuary in Belgium.

The Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder, West Lothian, raised £150,000 in the past year to build a two-acre enclosure for the big cats. The animals were rescued in May 2014 from a French circus in Belgium because the country forbids the use of wild animals in performances.

After being seized by government officials, they were taken in by the Belgian Rescue Sanctuary, a halfway house for abandoned or mistreated animals.

Pregnancy prank at match?

A Tannoy announcement telling a football fan his girlfriend had gone into labour may have been a prank.

Officials at Wigan Athletic FC said they are now looking into whether the announcement at the game against Colchester United was a hoax. It was during the League One match at Wigan’s DW Stadium that an announcement was made telling a Daniel Cunliffe that his girlfriend was about to give birth.

The message came shortly after the second half had got under way and as the home side were 4-0 up. A spokesman for the League One side said the stadium had received a call during the match asking to get the message to Mr Cunliffe. But they have since said that they are looking into whether it could have been a joke.

Air pollution confusing bees?

Diesel fumes in polluted areas may be destroying half of the most common flower odours used by bees to find their food, according to new research.

Researchers from the universities of Southampton and Reading suggest that toxic nitrous oxide (NOx) in diesel exhausts could be having an even greater effect on bees’ ability to smell out flowers than was previously thought.

NOx is a poisonous pollutant produced by diesel engines, harmful to humans and has also previously been shown to confuse bees’ sense of smell, which they rely on to sniff out their food.

Homeless feast as wedding is off

After a California couple called off their wedding, the bride-to-be’s family decided to turn the $35,000 extravagant event into a feast for the homeless.

The bride’s mother, Kari Duane, said that rather than cancel the reception, they invited Sacramento’s homeless for a once in a lifetime meal at the Citizen Hotel, one of the city’s finest venues.

Members of the homeless community enjoyed a meal that included appetizers, salad, gnocchi, salmon and even steak.

World’s longest baguette in Milan

A 122-metre (400-foot) long baguette baked at the Milan Expo 2015 World’s Fair has been declared the longest in the world.

Some 60 French and Italian bakers worked for nearly seven hours to bake the French bread characterised by its soft middle and crusty exterior, methodically moving a specially designed portable oven along the length of the doughy preparation. The bakers worked at a rate of 20 metres an hour, their progress complicated by working outdoors and the biggest challenge to avoid any breakage.

“It’s very difficult to do a big baguette because we are outside, you know, the temperature, it’s cold and we are outside so for the dough it’s not easy,” said Dominique Anract, one of the bakers and owner of the La Pompadour bakery in Paris.

Took taxi as he didn’t want to walk

A man accused of stealing a taxi after he was discharged from a hospital in Iowa says he did not want to walk home.

Des Moines police say Luis Orellana-Rivera, 26, drove off with the vehicle shortly after he was released from Mercy Medical Centre.

The unoccupied taxi had the key in the ignition at the time. Mr Orellana-Rivera was spotted around 30 minutes later. Police say he had the key to the taxi in his pocket at the time of his arrest. He told police he stole it because he did not want to walk the six blocks home.