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London, Sept 9 : His Royal Highness Prince Charles has shown his appreciation for the efforts TV chef Jamie Oliver has put in through a fan letter to improve pupils’ grub in Channel 4 show Jamie’s School Dinners.

“They have rekindled fascination with food and I congratulate them,” the Sun quoted Charles, 59, as saying of celebrity chefs.

“Jamie Oliver’s brilliant campaign stands out,” he revealed to National Trust mag.

London, Sept 9 : A dog that swallowed its owner’s mobile phone had to undergo a surgery costing 420 pounds to get it removed.

Nero, a Doberman-Great Dane crossbreed, had snatched the Nokia mobile phone from 67-year-old Marie Matthews’ hand, and swallowed it as he was being feed by her daughter, Driekie Boojens.

"My daughter screamed terribly because we were scared that Nero would die," the Telegraph quoted Matthews as recalling.

The family immediately took Nero to a local animal clinic, where the mobile was spotted in his tummy through an x-ray.

"We were very worried. I couldn''t stop crying," said Marie.

New, Sept 9 : While Delhi was far away from the term ''crowd'' until 1987, India''s capital has now joined the league of the world''s most populated cities.

This revelation has been made in a new book, ''The Top 10 of Everything 2009'', which shows how ''everything'' has changed in two decades.

Written by Russell Ash, the book contains over 600 lists comparing today''s entries with lists from 20 years ago, reports the Telegraph.

London, Sept 9 : With there being so many crime victims who cannot speak English, a new innovative way has been found to help cops deal with them – flash cards.

The method of using the thousands of individual pictures is said to save a lot of time and money in calling for interpreters.

As revealed by the Sussex force, who have 10,000 Eastern European immigrants on their patch, it is the easiest and fastest way.

The cards are carried by officers like WPC Emma Cruise on their belts, and each of them have more than a dozen flash cards, which include Guess Who? game style descriptions of suspects’ appearances.

“I believe they will prove useful,” the Sun quoted Sgt Danny West as saying on September 8.

London - A century-old pier in the seaside town of Fleetwood, north-west England, has been "completely gutted" by fire, police said Tuesday.

The fire was believed to have started near the front of the pier beside a former pub and cafe, investigators said. It was too early to say whether the blaze, discovered in the early hours of Tuesday, had been started deliberately.

The pier in the seaside resort, just north of Blackpool, originates from 1910, but was largely rebuilt after a fire in 1952. It had recently fallen into disrepair.

The blaze came less than six weeks after a fire destroyed a 104- year-old pier in Weston-super-Mare, in the south-western county of Somerset.