NEWS IN BRIEF
A WOMAN typically spends £29,287 during her lifetime on purchases her partner knows nothing about, according to a survey.
She secretly splashes out an average of £8.54 a week on things like clothes, make-up, candles and toiletries.
Nearly 75% admitted they found shopping relaxing and 20% do it when they have a bad week. Anita Naik, of Vouchercodes.co.uk, said: “Sometimes nothing beats a bit of retail therapy.” BARCELONA football star Neymar, 25, has been cleared of fraud but faces a corruption trial over the alleged understating of his 2013 transfer fee from Santos of Brazil. Officials from both clubs will face fraud charges, the Spanish National High Court said. DEATH sentences against four men who fatally gangraped a woman on a bus in India in 2012 were upheld yesterday.
Applause broke out in New Delhi’s supreme court as judges said the crime shook “society’s conscience”. A VANDAL being hunted by police for wrecking people’s flowers has turned out to be a roaming deer.
Officers put out an appeal after complaints in Little Shelford, Cambs.
But Jane Langley, 57, solved the mystery after spotting a muntjac eating plants. She said: “Damage has been happening in my garden for years.” ONE of two brothers pulled from a blazing bungalow has died. Taylor Searcher, 10, lost his fight for life in Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Brother Liam, 13, is believed to be in an induced coma after Monday’s fire at Pitsea, Essex. Mum Helen said that Taylor “will always be in my heart”. A DOG fell nearly 100ft down a cliff when he went for a wee... and escaped with only a few bruises. Boris, a rescued Staffie, right, had been out for a walk with owner Keara Watson, 28, at Muchalls, Aberdeenshire. THE red spacesuit worn by Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind is for sale on eBay at £77,000. The actor, now 69, wore the outfit in the 1977 Steven Spielberg classic as he joined aliens on their spaceship. BIRD flu has been detected in a flock of 30 chickens at a farm. The birds died or were culled after the H5N8 strain was found in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancs. A two-mile protection zone has been set up. Officials at Defra said health experts told them the risk to humans was “very low”. A BRITON has died after being swept into the sea on Tenerife. The unnamed 30-year-old was hit by a wave as he walked near a sea cave, a tourist attraction at Puerto Santiago on the Atlantic island’s west coast.
A helicopter lifted him out and a doctor and a nurse from a local surgery could not revive him.
In March a tourist who was hit by a wave and a hotel worker who jumped in to save her died near the same spot. A CO-OP worker drew a map of the store to help a burglar. Jacqueline McNeilly, 49, of Hartlepool, got a suspended 16-month jail term at Teesside crown court after admitting helping Kevin Brown, 38, who was jailed in January for a series of raids.