This is why I don't want pets in my flat

We'll start with a not so serious story.

Ella bargained aggressively for a beehive outside our flat at one point. Uday and I were wise to rebuff her it seems, because as I have just learned, pets and flats are not a good mix.

A man has been taken to hospital in Dundee after a fire in the ground floor flat of a tenement in the Menzieshill area of the city.

It is understood the blaze broke out after his dog switched on the man's electric blanket as he slept at about 0200 GMT on Tuesday.

And that's a loveable dog. Imagine a hive of malicious stinging machines just metres away from where you sleep.