"The famous statue in Piccadilly Circus isn't actually Eros but his younger brother Anteros, the Greek God of requited love. Designed by Sir Alfred Gilbert, it stands for 'reflective and mature love, as opposed to Eros or Cupid, the frivolous tyrant'. However, this idea never caught on and coupled with people's shaky grasp of classical mythology they assumed it was Eros or Cupid. The use of the nude figure on a public monument was controversial in 1892 but the statue itself was ground breaking as it was the first in the world to be cast in aluminium."
My favourite news story this week by far was the tale of a group of firemen who scaled a tree to rescue an iguana...only to discover it was actually a green branch.