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ShortcutsCelebrityA rumour that the Canadian singer has been replaced by a lookalike resurfaced on Twitter last week, but she is not the first star to be subject to such speculation Did you know Avril Lavigne was replaced by a lookalike named Melissa in 2003? At least, that’s what the internet would have you believe. The old conspiracy theory that Lavigne was “cloned” resurfaced on Twitter over the weekend, but it has been bandied about the internet since 2005 and is thought to have originated on a Brazilian fanpage.

BarcelonaThe teenage sensation missed his Spain debut because of a panic attack but hopes to offer youngsters the type of support he received from Ibrahimovic, Henry and others The plane had started to taxi towards the runway when Bojan Krkic told the flight attendant he was sorry, he couldn’t travel. It was July 2014, he was 23 and he had signed for Stoke for €1.8m, finally severing ties with Barcelona, his “home” where he became the youngest player in their history and had worked to overcome the anxiety attacks that conditioned his career.

Hiss story: The last snake-handling church in West Virginia – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Hidden in the Appalachian mountains is the House of the Lord Jesus, where serpents and their venom are all part of the service Mee-Lai Stone @mlestone Main image: ‘A tradition more maligned than understood’ … an image from Gloryland.

CraftA step-by-step guide to a simple craft project to decorate a child's bedroom – or your ownWhat you needTools for the butterfly craft project. Photograph: Katy Stoddard for the GuardianA few sheets of paper (I used a vintage children's fairytale, The Garden of Paradise by Hans Christian Andersen) A pencil Plain white paper for template Scissors Glue stick Strong thread (I used embroidery thread) What to do1. Find an image of a butterfly in a book or online and trace the outline on to paper – I chose one that was simple, with no fiddly bits, but you could be more creative!

Los Angeles This article is more than 1 month oldLos Angeles police flights cost $3,000 an hour, audit findsThis article is more than 1 month oldCity audit says LAPD helicopters cost $50m a year, more than 14 city offices’ entire budget Los Angeles spends nearly $50m a year on its police helicopter program, or roughly $3,000 for every hour of flight, according to a new audit that raises questions about the financial and environmental impacts of the city’s aerial surveillance.

Portrait of the weekJean-Auguste-Dominique IngresMademoiselle Caroline Rivière, Ingres (1805)· See the work online · All articles in this series Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) trained under David, the official artist of the French revolution, and died in an industrial Europe where the painters soon to be called impressionists were developing their aesthetic. Ingres was always a classicist, loyal to a tradition that, in French eyes, connected modern art with that of Greece, Rome and the Italian Renaissance.

James DysonLettersPatriotism, tax and the Dyson lobbying affairReaders on the row over text messages between James Dyson and Boris Johnson about a tax waiver for people coming to Britain to work on ventilators Gaby Hinsliff jokes about patriotism moving “in mysterious ways”, with the “great British patriot” James Dyson taking his “clean out of the country” (A lot of people pitched in during Covid, but only Dyson got a tax waiver for it, 22 April), but there is nothing remotely funny about the way patriotism is being distorted in No 10.

Paris This article is more than 5 years oldProtesters damage 'sexist' open-air urinals in ParisThis article is more than 5 years old‘Uritrottoirs’ seen as discriminatory in city that still frowns on public breastfeeding Feminist protesters have begun vandalising the new open-air street urinals in Paris, labelling them sexist and discriminatory. Several of the eco-friendly urinals have been placed in public spots in recent months as an experiment to counter Paris’s problem of urine-soaked pavements.

Guardian Opinion cartoon King Charles III Steve Bell on King Charles’s coronation vestments – cartoon Illustration: Steve Bell/All Rights Reserved Steve Bell Tue 2 May 2023 14.30 EDT Last modified on Tue 2 May 2023 20.02 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Topics King Charles III Guardian Opinion cartoon King Charles coronation Monarchy Queen Camilla ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaJuforqmutOiqp%2BqlZp8sbXCrayrnV9nfXN%2FjqaYsmdgZ3y0wMSvnGaalaG5brvNZqKippdisKmt0aWcrKtdmLyzu82aq6KnnmLDpr%2FTppynrKNisKK%2B06impw%3D%3D