By Tom Victor

SINGLETONS in Cathays can pick up more than just a date if they head down to the Students’ Union on Friday.

A Valentine’s Day scheme will let locals collect litter with other environmentally-conscious individuals, as they take part in what has been described as “The first ever speed-dating litter-pick run.”

But Litter Love, who are behind the event, insist all volunteers are welcome, regardless of whether they are looking for love.

You might say they’re making you an offer you can’t refuse.

ANOTHER tempting offer comes our way courtesy of an ice cream parlour in Clare Road, Grangetown.

Among their eclectic selection of Indian sweets and delicacies is something called “Michael Jackson” ice cream.

The explanation for the name? Well, it is “half black and half white”, of course.

Clearly Jacko fever shows no signs of dissipating, nearly eight months after the star’s death.

Let us hope their sweets are not in as bad taste as their jokes.

MORE confectionery-based discrimination was stamped out in Cardiff, as drivers were encouraged to stop their abuse of lollipop men and women.

Although there have been no instances of physical violence, some drivers have taken it upon themselves to get out of their cars and bark at the staff.

The council is concerned with the apparent rise in such incidents, and has failed to find an explanation for people taking their anger out on these individuals.

Maybe the motorists need to be less bitter about the situation.

ONE of the more interesting stories to emerge this week surrounds a Cardiff University professor’s forthright views on alien existence.

While others approach the matter of extraterrestrial life tentatively, applied mathematics and astronomy professor Chandra Wickramasinghe has claimed there is “overwhelming” evidence of life in outer space.

Professor Wickramasinghe, who made the assertion in an article published this week in the International Journal of Astrobiology, has previously claimed “A similarity of life forms across the universe is inevitable.”

ON the subject of outrageous claims, Cardiff nightclub Glam is set to welcome a man described as “The UK’s most sought-after actor” next week.

Who could it be? Oscar-nominee Colin Firth? Welsh-born Batman star Christian Bale?

Not quite. The individual in question is none other than Danny Dyer.

The Deadliest Men host is taking a break from his strenuous schedule and treating clientele at the Vanity club night to an exclusive DJ set on February 20.

Is there no beginning to this man’s talents?

FINALLY, Passion in City Road, Roath is launching taster sessions for exotic dancing.

The “sexy shop”, which boasts Cardiff’s largest collection of lingerie, is starting the sessions this week.

If they really wanted to find out who was interested, they should have just taken a pole.