Before it used to be the smudge of lipstick on a collar which gave the game away but nowadays cheating husbands are more likely to be caught out by a raunchy text message, according to a divorce laywer.

Many adulturous men were foiled by unimaginative passwords which meant that it was easy for their suspicious partners to break into their Blackberries or laptops, Vanessa Lloyd Platt, of Lloyd Platt and Co told Sky News. More on Sexy texts catch out cheating husbands

by LISA SCOTT

Ties that bind: Lisa Scott is shown how to secure knots

'Are you here on your own? My partner is away this week,' asks a guy with fluffy shoulder-length hair. I stare back at him, wishing the huge leather sofa would swallow me up. Before I can reply, he pulls out a notepad and pen and asks seriously: 'Do you know any of the knots?'

Leo Lewis in Tokyo

The elephant's memory is legendary, but in a large, grey surprise to science the mighty Asian elephant turns out to have a distinct flair for maths as well

Under carefully controlled experimental conditions — essentially comprising a large cage and two buckets of assorted fruit — one elephant at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo managed to get its sums right 87 per cent of the time. A slightly less gifted pachyderm across the country in Kyoto scored a still respectable 69 per cent. More on Elephants show flair for arithmetic

By Joanne Morris

At the foot of the Lickey Hills, just south of Birmingham, lies Rubery, a pleasantly rural village that has a history stretching back to Roman times.

It seems a settlement originated here because of a large ford in the river Rea. Footsore roman soldiers and their thirsty horses would rest here on their way from the salt mines (at Saltley, would you believe!) to the roman baths at Droitwich Spa. Nearly two thousand years later the salt road still exists and is now a nature trail. More on Shadows From The Past, At the Cock Inn Rubery

By Joanne Morris

Warley Woods, on the border of Birmingham and the Black Country, is a lovely, green open space, a welcome escape from the surrounding urban area.

It is popular with walkers, runners, cyclists and footballers. Dogs love to take their owners for a mad romp around the trees. It is so popular, in fact, that some people never want to leave. More on The Grey Lady and the ghosts of Warley Wood

Writing about Sex in the City can have its occupational hazards. At times, before I get the chance to explain the content of the column, I find perfect strangers proceeding to divulge their sex problems to me.

You're suffering from erectile dysfunction? Delightful. Thanks for sharing that.

You think you may have contracted a sexually transmitted disease? Fascinating. The words 'too', 'much' and 'information', spring to mind. More on Sexual healing

By Mike Hanlon

Two nightmare scenarios, two ends of the world. In the first, there is little warning. For maybe a month there would be no sign that life was about to come to an abrupt and nasty end for all living things on Earth.

Then, earthquakes would start unexpectedly, alerting geologists that something terrible, unimaginable, was amiss.

After a few days, these seismic disturbances would reach catastrophic proportions. More on Are we all going to die next Wednesday?

Police in Germany are trying to track down a man filmed riding a skateboard down a steep stretch of motorway at 62 mph.

They believe the man, who raced down the Ulm-Stuttgart motorway at speeds up to 100kph (62mph) - far above the speed limit - for two miles before he stopped and fled, was a professional stuntman, Goeppingen police spokesman Uli Stoeckle said.

This might be suggested by the fact that a video of the stunt on YouTube begins with the words 'Dangerfreaks is performed by professionell [sic] stuntmen'. More on The hunt for the 100kph skateboarder

A woman in Devon was the victim of a gang who poured 16 pints of milk over her and then ran away.

The woman in her twenties was walking home in the early hours of Wednesday morning, when a gang of six men surrounded her, and poured 16 pints of milk over her.

The attackers, who struck on Tothill Road in the St. Judes area of Plymouth, were described as white males in their twenties. Only four of them actually poured the milk.

After pouring the milk over the woman, they ran away.

It is not clear exactly how authorities have determined that it was exactly 16 pints of milk that were used in the attack.

Police said that the woman was 'understandably upset by the whole experience,' according the Plymouth Herald.

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A Californian beer brewer has won the right to use the slogan 'try legal weed' on the top of its bottle caps.

Mt. Shasta Brewing, based in Weed, California, has been embroiled in a battle with the US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for the past six months.

The agency had believed the caps were an attempt to promote the use of marijuana but brewer Vaune Dillmann, 61, said it was just a reference to a brand name.

A triumphant Dillmann said: 'Weed fought the law and Weed won.'

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