A man accused of trying to lure two children into an apartment in Blankenberge last week has been arrested following a flood of tips to the police. The man tried to get the two girls, both aged eight, to follow him into the building to see a kitten. One of the girls raised the alarm, and the man fled. Following the release of an artist's sketch and a description of the man, he was spotted on a train travelling from Antwerp to Ostend and arrested when the train stopped in Bruges.

The first new-format driving licence was issued last week to Eugène Breynaert, aged 88 and famous for precision parking in his own garage, as seen in the TV news programme Man bijt hond earlie rthis year. The new licence, the size and shape of a bank card, costs €20 instead of €11 and is valid for 10 years. Mr Breynaert became a worldwide celebrity via YouTube after he was shown parking in his garage, where he has only 3 centimetres clearance on each side of his Fiat. He happens to live in Liedekerke, one of the municipalities taking part in the licence pilot project.

Ronald Janssen has been sacked from his job as a teacher at a school in Herk-De-Stad, six months after being arrested on murder charges. The sacking came after a hearing before a special professional tribunal. Janssen continues to be eligible for pension rights, at least until found guilty by a court. Janssen is accused of murdering a young couple who lived nearby, as well as Annick Van Uytsel, who disappeared in 2007 while cycling home from a party.

Screening for breast cancer in women over the age of 40 could do more harm than good, the Federal Health Care Knowledge Centre has said. About 800,000 women every year, including one on five of all women between 40 and 49, are invited to undergo a mammography. But while systematic screening helps prevent about 24 cancers a year, the radiation can lead to 40 new cancers and 16 other fatal conditions. In addition, the discovery of a number of other less serious lesions can give rise to anxiety and unnecessary medical treatments.

For the first time since the world exposition of 1958, foreign police are patrolling the streets of Brussels. Until the end of July, two Spanish, two French, one Dutch and two Luxembourger officers will patrol in and around the Grote Markt in Brussels, as part of the city's contribution to the Belgian presidency of the EU. The officers will only be able to intervene in cases where a crime is actually in progress.

Supermarkets Colruyt and Okay will stop selling pork from castrated pigs at the end of the year, following rising criticism of the process of castrating piglets without the use of anaesthetic. The supermarkets will instead sell meat from pigs vaccinated with Improvac, which lowers the levels of testosterone in male pigs. Animal rights organisation Gaia said the decision was "the beginning of the end" of the practice.