The British Lottery, which funds lesbian theatre and other worthy causes, including a number of heritage projects, is to be used to renovate one of the last of the Victorian public loos, made famous because the playwright Joe Orton used to have sex there.

New laws: kids in Wisconsin can bring inhalers to school. They couldn’t before? NH parents of murdered children can sue for loss of companionship (although presumably the defendant can respond by proving that the kid was a little shit). And Massachusetts gets an official state polka. Massachusetts.