Giant hairy beasts are out there. At least, that’s what Ken Kristian thinks. He hopes to find some sasquatch — human-like creatures said to roam the wooded Canadian wilderness. Kristian is excited by a recent sighting (7ft tall, smelly and very muscular) and has founded the Sasquatch Research Initiative with international help to find it. Sceptics — and there are a few — point to lack of bones, hair and DNA. But what do they know?
Police are to be based at three Scottish primary and secondary schools in a national pilot scheme to reduce crime and gang violence. Inspector Tom Halbert, of the Violence Reduction Unit at the Strathclyde force, said the initiative would “identify young people” likely to get into trouble and involve mentoring.
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Beer sales are tumbling in America and the Beer Institute hopes an image revamp will help. Out go laddish advertisements, in comes “romancing the product”. Sellers will be taught to treat brews like wines, recommending individual brews for different occasions. Robert Lachky, a senior manager at Anheuser-Busch, the country’s biggest brewer, explained: “There’s more to beer than just knowing how to drink it.” Quite. Recovering can be even trickier.
Italian television is filled with under-clothed women, yet there was still outrage when a film based on One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed (no, not about haircare, but a promiscuous teenager) was released last year. Melissa P was a huge success, of course. Now it’s being distributed all over Europe so the rest of us can ask the person in front to move their head, they’re blocking the view, and then be outraged.
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Fans of supercamp Seventies disco group Village People will be saddened that Victor Willis (the cop in the original line-up) missed a court hearing in California where he was due to be sentenced for drug and gun offences. He faces three years in prison. But at least that means brick walls. His last listed address was a caravan.
Sources: Toronto Globe and Mail, CNNMoney, International Herald Tribune, The Herald (Glasgow), Newsday