Restaurant offers $75 tasting menu for dogs
And other stories from the stranger side of life

A US restaurant is offering a $75 tasting menu for dogs featuring hand-cut filet mignon tartare and poached quail eggs. Dogue, in the Mission district of San Francisco where it is estimated there are more dogs than children, also offers pastries, “dogguccinos” and a rose-shaped cake made of wild venison heart and organic beetroot. “What we do doesn’t generally exist,” owner Rahmi Massarweh told the Los Angeles Times. “My approach is as if it were a human restaurant. It’s as if you have come into my restaurant, and the star guest is your dog.”
Most popular baby names announced
Noah has brought to an end Oliver’s eight-year reign as the most popular boys’ name, while Olivia topped the girls’ list for the sixth successive year, said the Office for National Statistics. “While Noah has been in the Top Ten for seven years, the latest figures show that it is particularly popular with younger parents,” said a spokesman. Olivia was the top girls’ name in every English region and Wales except in the East Midlands where Amelia was the most common, said The Times.
Long-lost comedy show discovered
A long-lost episode of the BBC radio comedy Hancock’s Half Hour has been found by a collector, reported ITV News. Richard Harrison, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, discovered the missing episode The Marriage Bureau from series one, almost 70 years after it was first broadcast. “It’s always been something I’ve kind of fantasised about finding, so it was quite a surreal moment, really,” he said. His recording, which he found in a box of old reel-to-reel tapes, has been restored and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October.
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