McWeddings a new craze
Helen Cheung, director of corporate communications of Hong Kong McDonald’s, said the idea came about when a couple who met at a branch held their wedding reception there.
‘Over the past two years we’ve started receiving calls from people who want to have a wedding party in our restaurants,’ she added.
‘People said they’d dated or met there and wanted to get married there. We see this as a business opportunity.’
Newsreader drinks beer on air, gets sacked
Mr Wilska, the country’s most well-known English-language anchor, got in trouble after he tried to give a story he was delivering about Finland’s licensing laws a bit of extra fizz.While recorded footage showing beer being pulled was broadcast, Mr Wilska whipped out a brew in the studio – a gag intended not for broadcast, but to make the crew laugh.Unluckily, Wilska, who’s known as the Barry White of Finland for his gravelly voice, was caught swigging from the bottle as the report cut back to the studio.Looking alarmed, he put the bottle down, spilling some on his suit as he did so, and wrapped up the show
