Model Katie Price and new husband Alex Reid have been questioned about a row over a disabled parking space, police said.

The mother of three is alleged to have waded into an argument that arose after cage fighter Reid parked in a disabled bay at a shopping centre near their Sussex home.

Ms Price has a disabled son, Harvey, from her relationship with former soccer star Dwight Yorke. Mr Reid, who won Celebrity Big Brother, was confronted by a woman and her partner who objected to him using the space.

Sussex Police were called to the ensuing disturbance, but said the fight was verbal rather than physical.

Police said it was not known if any of Ms Price's children were present during the row, or if the couple who challenged the use of the parking space were themselves disabled.

French minister grounded

No more high-flying ministers - that's the word from France's Prime Minister after taxpayers faced a £103,000 bill run up by a Cabinet member who rented a private jet.

Cooperation minister Alain Joyandet used the jet to take him to a conference on the Caribbean island of Martinique. After landing himself in trouble with his boss, he insisted he would pay more attention to his expenses in future.

PM François Fillon's office has now announced that ministers must use regular airlines for travel, because in hard times "government members must be exemplary".

Forces have a sweet tooth

British forces serving in Afghanistan have a sweet tooth when it comes to choosing their favourite comforts from home, a study revealed.Fizzy drinks and chocolate bars dominated a list of products servicemen and women buy as treats, according to a survey by Naafi (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes).

The study found that last year British forces munched their way through 923,583 bags of Haribo sweets. The colourful bagged sweets topped a poll of popular items for soldiers during 2009.

Cold sugary drinks also featured strongly in the list, with Coke in second place selling almost 561,000 items, followed by Diet Coke, energy drink Gatorade and non-alcoholic Becks beer.

Bargain hunters

Ten police officers were injured when scuffles broke out after 2,000 people descended on a clothing sale. Three people were arrested after the trouble at the American Apparel "rummage" event in Brick Lane, east London.

The company was forced to stop the sale, which was advertised on social networking websites like Facebook, because of the "dangerous behaviour" of people queueing to get in.

Harry Potter gets lost

The script of the next Harry Potter film was left in a pub, it was reported.

The 118-page document, marked private and confidential, was handed to The Sun by a drinker who said he found it under a table at the Waterside Tavern, near Kings Langley, Hertfordshire.

The newspaper said members of the film crew, who are filming at the nearby Leavesden Studios, are regulars at the bar.

A Warner Brothers spokesman confirmed the script had been handed back to the company.

Gift lists

It seems fake paper money is no longer good enough for the dead of Taiwan, where relatives traditionally burn make-believe cash to help ease the passage of their deceased loved ones through the netherworld.

Instead, many residents are now opting to provide ancestral ghosts with more elaborate paper gifts - models of everything from Ferraris to iPhones, private jets and even villas.

Many Taiwanese believe burning a paper model makes a version of the item available to the dead in the spirit world.

Creature culverts

Future generations of salaman-ders in a town in the US are going to get some help crossing the road.

Monkton Conservation Commission in Vermont says it has won a £99,000 grant to install culverts under a stretch of road to protect salamanders, other amphibians, reptiles and small mammals crossing between a swampy area and the uplands.

For the last nine years, a group of Monkton residents has monitored the area and in some cases has stepped in themselves to help the creatures cross the road.

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