A teacher who was left paralysed after breaking his neck in a freak welly-wanging accident on a school trip has lost his High Court claim for more than £5 million in damages. A judge ruled: “Extremely sad though it be, this was a tragic and freak accident for which no blame can be established.” Glennroy [...]
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Archive | August 14th, 2012
Teacher loses £5m claim for damages after being paralysed in welly-wanging accident – Home News – UK – The Independent
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Baby names 2011: Harry and Pippa upstage Kate and William – Telegraph
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Official figures show that Harry was the most popular name for baby boys in England and Wales last year, for the first time ever, overtaking regular favourites such as Oliver, Jack and Alfie. With more than 7,500 babies named Harry last year, it was by the far the most popular name for either sex in [...]
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Most popular baby names: when ‘Harry’ was both classy and classless – Telegraph
Posted on 14 August 2012.
I have spent all of my 37 years feeling fairly smug that my name is about as perfect as a can be. It is both classy and classless – Harry Hotspur or Harry Palmer; it manages to have a Shakespearean swagger as well as a bit of cockney cock-of-the-walk about it, while still managing not [...]
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BBC News – Want to give birth to an Olympian?
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Want to increase the chance of giving birth to a future Olympian? Well a curious statistic has emerged in this morning’s papers suggesting future parents should aim to give birth on 23 March. Searching through the birthdays of the pantheon of British gold medallists shows the date cropping up time and again. It is a [...]
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Boy, 15, loses eye after railway line detonator blows up in his face when he threw it on a bonfire | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
A schoolboy has been blinded in one eye after an unmarked box of railway detonators he and some friends had put on a fire exploded. Harvey Rowe, 15, entered a railway depot through a broken fence with two older boys and took some rubbish from a skip to build the bonfire. When the unmarked box [...]
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BBC News – Plans to overhaul primary maths are ‘seriously flawed’
Posted on 14 August 2012.
A campaign group promoting maths has attacked plans to overhaul maths teaching in primary schools in England as “undeliverable”. In a letter to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, National Numeracy says the draft curriculum is “overloaded” and relies too much on rote learning. The curriculum, due to come into force in 2014, expects children to [...]
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Parents’ guide to student finance: Nudge, point and advise, but avoid taking over – Clearing – Getting Into University – The Independent
Posted on 14 August 2012.
So what can parents do? Put simply, help out if you can. Students, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, will have higher income levels than ever before but many will still feel the pinch, particularly as there are fewer part-time jobs around. Students should always borrow the maximum student loan every year. The Student Loans Company [...]
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Judge rules doctors can withdraw boy’s life-support treatment despite devout Christian parents’ plea to leave his fate ‘in God’s hands’ | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
A boy’s devout Christian parents have lost their battle to keep him alive after a judge ruled doctors could withdraw life-support treatment despite their plea to leave the decision ‘in God’s hands’. Mr Justice Ryder said it would be wrong to keep the eight-year-old alive and possibly in pain when there was no hope he [...]
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An Apple for the teacher: are iPads the future in class? | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional
Posted on 14 August 2012.
I’m a self-confessed Apple fanatic so I was curious to see how iPads and iPods could be used successfully in a primary school. I was sure they would inspire and encourage the teachers I work with to take a chance and think outside their comfort zone and embrace new technology. But before our school jumped [...]
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Students: who will cook your meals? | Education | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 14 August 2012.
You’re about to start uni: should you go for catered or self-catered accommodation in your first year? Huge numbers of students – past, present and future – consider the catered option for a mere millisecond before opting for self-catering. The most obvious reason is, as Rachel McDermott puts it: “You can cook whenever you want [...]
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Here comes Honey Boo Boo’s surprising home-truth | Megan Carpentier | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 14 August 2012.
If there is something some women like more than judging other women’s parenting skills, it’s parading their own for public consumption. Now, after more refined contributions to the genre (think “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”) and somewhat less so (think “Wife Swap”), American television executives at the cable network TLC arrived at its pinnacle: [...]
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BBC News – Racist parents: Daughter Jane Champion’s apology hopes
Posted on 14 August 2012.
A teenager assaulted by her parents for having a black boyfriend says she hopes they will apologise and accept her relationship. David and Frances Champion from Swansea were jailed for twelve and nine months respectively after they admitted the attack on Jane, now 18. Her boyfriend Alfonce Ncube, from Zimbabwe, was also racially abused. Jane [...]
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BBC News – Child dies of E. coli infection
Posted on 14 August 2012.
An eight-year-old girl has died at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow after contracting E. coli 0157. BBC Scotland understands the girl is from Dalrymple in East Ayrshire. NHS Ayrshire and Arran said it did not believe the case was part of an outbreak, and it has not identified a particular source which [...]
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Jenn Stanovich: Mother says accidental shooting of girl, 6, was ‘God’s call’ | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
The mother of a six-year-old girl who was killed when her brother’s hunting rifle accidentally went off says nothing could have been done to prevent her daughter’s from dying. Haydee Stanovich made a shocking statement about little Jenn’s death, saying it was ‘God’s call’ that she took a bullet to her chest when a loaded [...]
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Harry and Amelia were 2011′s most popular baby names – with Fenton rising 215 places after viral video of a runaway dog – Home News – UK – The Independent
Posted on 14 August 2012.
It’s a little early for Mo to make his surge but the world of fantasy has made its mark on children’s names as Harry tops the boys’ chart for the first time and Bella emerges from the twilight. The Harry Potter film saga has finished but the boy wizard’s legacy lives on. Harry has jumped [...]
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5-Year-Old Delights in Finding a Role Model Named Genevieve
Posted on 14 August 2012.
When Genevieve Haney nabbed a hard hit foul ball at a Phillies game last month, she probably never thought the catch would make her a role model. The praise from the Philadelphia announcers was nice, and well deserved, but a letter from a 5-year-old girl meant a little bit more. The papa of 5-year-old Genevieve [...]
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Macaulay Culkin’s estranged father speaks out about the Home Alone star’s tragic decline | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
When pictures first emerged of Macaulay Culkin looking skeletal and dishevelled earlier this year, the world was shocked to see just how badly the former child star’s life had seemingly unravelled. Then earlier this month, the 31-year-old’s tragic tale took a dramatic turn when it was claimed by the National Enquirer that he was ‘close [...]
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BBC News – Damian Rzeszowski killed wife and children in Jersey ‘after wife’s affair’
Posted on 14 August 2012.
A man killed six people, including his wife and young children, because his marriage was failing after his wife had an affair, a Jersey court has heard. Damian Rzeszowski, 31, from Poland, stabbed his victims at the family’s St Helier flat in August 2011. He has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies all six counts [...]
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Pixar’s Brave – a breakthrough for Hollywood heroines? – Telegraph
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Pixar is fêted for many things. It made the first computer-animated feature film (Toy Story). It has won 14 Oscars and had 13 consecutive American box office number ones. Its films have been so consistently inventive, witty and warm-hearted for so long – Up, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo – that Pixar has become a superbrand, [...]
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37% of winners educated privately – PA News Feeds – Evening Standard
Posted on 14 August 2012.
More than a third of Team GB’s medallists were educated at private school, figures have shown. Among those who claimed gold in their sport, more than one in four attended fee-paying schools. This is despite the private sector educating just 7% of the school population. The figures come in the wake of concerns about sport [...]
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America’s largest family, the Bates, on miracle 19th child who survived after failing to breathe on his own at birth | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Gil and Kelly Bates of Lake City, Tennessee, have spoken in detail about the complications that came with the birth of their 19th child Jeb Colton Bates. The super-sized Christian family, who recently received their own reality TV series United Bates Of America, have revealed that Jeb struggled to breathe on his own when he [...]
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Cashing in on back-to-school cool: Oscar de la Renta sets his sights on the under-12 set with $95 leggings and $350 dresses | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Oscar de la Renta had long been thinking about children’s clothing. But the designer, known for his $5,000 romantic cocktail dresses, struggled to come up with the right partner who also shared his view that the clothes should be appropriate for children, says CEO Alex Bolen, the designer’s son-in-law. The fashion house also wanted to [...]
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London 2012: Olympic Team GB Jessica Ennis Mo Farah Bradley Wiggins in Lego | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Olympic withdrawl symptoms? Check. Missing Team GB already? Check. Need a sporting fix before the Paralympics begin next week? Check. But before you check in with your nearest Olympics Anonymous chapter, take a peek at what some kindly and supremely creative Lego-lovers have done to keep us away from the edge this week. The clever [...]
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‘They’re a walking billboard of you’: Manhattan mothers explain why they dress their toddlers in designer clothes worth thousands | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Juliet Sandler dresses in the latest $650 dresses and $400 shoes from Parisian fashion house Lanvin. Juliet is 3. Her mother, Dara Sandler, says she dresses her daughter in the latest fashions because Juliet is a reflection of her – even though her daughter can’t spell the names of the designers, let alone pay for [...]
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Jack Butland to become England’s youngest goalkeeper in Friendly against Italy in Berne – Telegraph
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Roy Hodgson had sent him a message telling him that John Ruddy was injured and that the teenager would be going to Euro 2012 instead. “I turned my phone on when I got in the airport and it went mad,’’ recalled the 19 year-old on Monday, breaking off from England training at London Colney. “I [...]
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Damian Rzeszowski: Father ‘killed 6 including his wife and children because he could not face marriage break-up’ | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
A builder slaughtered six people, including his wife and their two children, in a frenzied knife attack after discovering she was having an affair, a court heard yesterday. During a family barbecue, Damian Rzeszowski grabbed two 12-inch kitchen knives and attacked his father-in-law Marek Garstka, 56, while he was watching TV in his bedroom. Rzeszowski, [...]
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Benjamin Allerton: Drunk gave teens five-second countdown before ploughing into tent and injuring boy | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
A drunk driver is facing a lengthy jail sentence after he deliberately drove over a group of youngsters in a tent, after giving them a five-second countdown to escape. A judge was told how Benjamin Allerton, 25, targeted the group with his Peugeot van following an argument with them in Selby, North Yorks, in March [...]
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E. coli infection: Girl, 8 dies but officials say it is not part of an outbreak | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
An eight-year-old girl has died after contracting an E. coli infection but health officials have stressed it is not part of an outbreak. The child was from East Ayrshire in Scotland and had contracted the E. coli O157 strain. She was treated in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow but sadly died. NHS [...]
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Routine trips to the dentist can really take it out of you – Telegraph
Posted on 14 August 2012.
‘Would you like to take your teeth home with you today?” It wasn’t a question I expected having to answer last Thursday morning. “Single or return?” possibly, “Small or large?” almost certainly, but having my teeth offered up to me like ghoulish hors d’oeuvres on a tin tray? I never saw that coming. I’ve always [...]
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What is it like to be an Olympic athlete’s parent? | Life and style | The Guardian
Posted on 14 August 2012.
For Jackie Jamieson, the most emotional week of her life came four months before this year’s Olympics. In March, her son Michael was going through swimming trials, hoping to represent Great Britain in the breaststroke. He’d been unsuccessful at 100m, and with the 200m trial coming up, his mother decided to write him an email. [...]
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Education in brief: private school in shock closure | Education | The Guardian
Posted on 14 August 2012.
School closure shock Teachers, parents and pupils at a 96-year-old private school in Surrey have been left stunned after receiving letters from its directors saying it is to close with immediate effect. More than 100 pupils, including 16 who were in the middle of GCSE courses, are facing a scramble to find places at new [...]
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Should You Get Your Child an iPad or Laptop for School?
Posted on 14 August 2012.
With back-to-school shopping season in full swing, parents are deciding whether to get their child an iPad or laptop for the upcoming year. Although some kids may have their sights set on an ultra-trendy tablet device, tech experts are in agreement that a laptop is the way to go for students of all ages.“Digital media [...]
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Brides-to-be shun exotic foreign trips in favour of homegrown hen parties on UK soil in recession | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
One of the best parts of getting married is the hen weekend. But according to new research, brides-to-be are ditching fancy foreign trips for their hen nights in favour of cheaper locations at home as the recession bites. For their final night of fun, brides are abandoning expensive weekend breaks in big European capitals like [...]
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Mother reunited with long-lost son 45 years after adoption using Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? money to go to Australia | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
A mother has been reunited with the son she gave up for adoption 45 years ago. And it seems she has Chris Tarrant to thank. When Welsh teashop-owner Dawn Harkins, 61, learned that her long-lost son Glyn was living in Australia, she decided to go on Tarrant’s ITV game show Who Wants To Be A [...]
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Children who dreamed of gold: Before Olympic triumph, Britain’s stars of 2012 | Mail Online
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Britain’s athletes at the Olympics did not just exceed expectations, they smashed them, and in doing so a series of previously little-known athletes became household names. The total of 65 medals, including 29 golds, is the best tally recorded by Britain at any Olympics since 1908 – and 18 more than won in Beijing four [...]
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Mother of schoolboy ‘kidnapped’ in Qatar appeals to David Cameron – Telegraph
Posted on 14 August 2012.
Adam Jones, a 13-year old from Sheffield, has been living with his uncle Fahad al-Mudaki since 2009 when a local court transferred custody from his mother Rebecca to his paternal relatives. Mrs Jones, 45, told the Daily Telegraph that the prime minister, must do more to gain Adam’s freedom. “Adam is very distressed,” she said. [...]
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