IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

A Spanish auxiliary nurse who was forced to take a professional exam while she was in labour has been told she can retake it. On the day she was due to sit the test, Mar Herraiz had been up for 20 hours, and had been given an epidural; nevertheless, members of the exam board warned that she had to sit it, or fail the entire course. She took the case to the Spanish High Court, which has now ruled in her favour, saying that her treatment was not only discriminatory and insensitive, but “confounds the most basic common sense”. Seven per cent of American adults think that chocolate milk comes mes from brown cows, according ording to a survey commissioned by the US dairy industry. That equates to around 16.4 million people. However, commentators in the US say that given levels of ignorance about food, the figure could be even higher. In the early 1990s, a government survey found that nearly one in five adults didn’t know hamburgers were made of beef.

A baby born prematurely, on a flight from Saudi Arabia to the Indian city of Kochi, has been awarded free flights for life on Jet Airways. It was the first time a baby had been born on the India-based airline, which may explain the generous gesture. In the past year, more than five babies have been born on commercial flights – but none of them got free flights for life. One was given free flights until the age of 21; another was awarded a million air miles. A third, born on a Turkish Airlines flight, only got a free ride to the nearest hospital on landing.