Alba, an albino orangutan, snacks on a watermelon at the orangutan rehabilitation centre in central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The conservation group wants to create a 12-acre forest island for the world’s only known albino orangutan after rescuing it from villagers five months ago. Alba can’t be returned to the wild because of health issues related to her albinism.
Just one week after winning back the Michelin star he once held at his restaurant in Chelsea, Indian chef Vineet Bhatia has closed it. A spokesperson for him says they are relocating in a couple of months. Under the Michelin rules, he will be judged to have opened a different place and will not be able to carry the star over.
Good news: the 37 year-old Da Maria trattoria in Notting Hill, reviewed here a few weeks ago, has been saved. An application by the landlord of the building it shares with the Gate Cinema, which would have seen the tiny restaurant destroyed, has been rejected by the local council, after a campaign by customers and locals.
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