Ricky Dearn, 29, said he was shocked when his girlfriend's son Jordan walked in on the maintenance worker and cleaner at the Royal Park Hotel in Elenite, Bulgaria.

Holiday firm First Choice said the behaviour was "unacceptable", adding that both employees were dismissed for gross misconduct.


TERRIER TIMMY TRAPPED

A dog spent a week trapped in an underground pipe after running away during a walk, the RSPCA said.

Amazingly, Timmy the Terrier was rescued in almost perfect health from the eight-inch wide pipe.

The animal had gone missing after giving chase to a rabbit while out for a walk with owner Angie Whittle.


MESSAGE MISUNDERSTOOD

A television advert featuring Esperanto, "the international language of understanding", left experts puzzled when they heard the words to the song Iko Iko instead.

Littlewoods Direct announced yesterday that it was using the language to advertise its clothing.

But Esperanto enthusiasts were perplexed when they failed to understand a single word spoken in the advert.


EMERGENCY STOP

A bus driver was sacked after a passenger claimed to have seen him defecating near his vehicle outside a supermarket, an employment tribunal heard.

Pargat Singh, who is claiming unfair dismissal against Travel West Midlands, is said to have committed the act in full view of the public in Coventry last October.

Giving evidence at the tribunal in Birmingham, the company's staff performance manager, Jyoti Kapoor, said Singh, 63, was deemed to be guilty of gross misconduct despite his insistence that he had left his vehicle to urinate.


ZARA CHATTED UP

An obnoxious footballer was filmed attempting to chat up Zara Phillips in an internet advert created to promote the British equestrian eventing team ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

The 27-year-old Royal became the face of the viral campaign through her role as a brand ambassador for Land Rover.

In the clip, Phillips is chatted up by a footballer as she unloads her horse Toytown. His argument that there is not much skill involved in equestrian events is ended when her horse sneezes over the footballer, covering him in equine snot.


GRAN SLAM

Jeff Carstensen was alarmed when he learned his 76-year-old grandmother planned to buy him a 100,000 dollar (£50,000) life insurance policy with her as the beneficiary.

He said Betty Neumar told him: "If something happens to you, you take care of me, and if something happens to me, I take care of you. It was all too suspicious. So I got out of there any way I could, as soon as I could."

He did well. Neumar is currently in a North Carolina jail, accused of hiring a hit man to kill her fourth husband and police are re-examining the deaths of her first child and four of the five men she married.


FULL STOP

The world's oldest blogger has died in Australia aged 108.

Olive Riley wrote 74 entries in her blogs since starting them early last year after a friend showed her how.

She died peacefully on Saturday in Sydney, a posting on her website said. It did not give a cause of death.


PAWS

A zoo visitor in the Ukraine was mauled to death after he attempted to photograph a bear and fell into its enclosure.

The 27-year-old victim had climbed over a 13ft fence to get closer to the bear at the zoo in Mykolaiv.

Staff tried to stop the bear by pouring buckets of water and throwing loaves of bread, plastic bottles and other objects at him, but in vain.