It’s been a good week for ... romance
Oooooh. It’s enough to melt your hazelnut clusters. A firefighter from Liverpool is to be the new Milk Tray man.
Patrick McBride beat off tens of thousands of hopefuls to win the chance to don the hallmark black polo-neck in new adverts for the chocolates.
The dashing Milk Tray man, seen for 35 years dicing with death to deliver chocolates to the woman he loved, returns to mark the brand's 100th anniversary.
Though toffee-nosed connoisseurs may consider Milk Tray to be the garage-bought flowers of boxed chocolates, the brand has displayed staying power in the face of stiff competition from posher chocs such as Ferrero Rocher.
But will the new adverts have a modern twist? Some might argue the "macho male impresses damsel with derring do" to be an outdated and patronising stereotype, even if the lady loves the Milk Tray he delivers.
Maybe the ad gurus will instead be thinking outside the box.
It’s been a bad week for ... photography
Hot on the hairy heels of a ruling that a macaque monkey who took selfies cannot be declared the copyright owner of the photos, comes a stooshie over a picture of a horse.
More specifically, it is a picture of a horse called Betty pulling a comedy face while photo-bombing a father-and-son selfie.
The animal's owner has demanded a share of a prize worth £2,000 that the father and son won after entering the image into a holiday competition.
David Bellis, 31, said his three-year-old son, Jacob, took the photo as they were out walking near their home in Prestatyn, north Wales.
The horse’s owner, Nicola Mitchell, contacted the holiday firm to complain.
She now wants them to pony up. “He [Bellis] should have asked for our consent," she said. "There should be some token gesture as it is our horse that has really won them the holiday.”
Wayne Beynon, an intellectual property lawyer, said: “The horse owner’s complaint doesn’t really hold up in law. The father and child were on a public footpath, so there is no issue of trespass.
“As the photographer, Jacob automatically owns copyright in the image and didn’t require permission of the horse’s owner to take the photo.”
So sense has prevailed. It’s actually the three-year-old who owns the rights to the pic. Glad we cleared that up.
Meanwhile, asked for a response, Betty said: “Neigh comment.”
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