Posted on 22 September 2010. Tags: Family Health, Health, Internet Kids, Parents
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The doctor at Rugby School was ‘too busy’ to attend a sick pupil who later died of blood poisoning, an inquest heard yesterday.
By ANDY DOLAN
Last updated at 8:03 AM on 22nd September 2010
Clementine Nicholson, 17, was found seriously ill in her room at the £24,000-a-year school after she failed to turn up for breakfast.
But the hearing heard that a housemistress spent 15 minutes repeatedly asking the school medic to assess her before calling an ambulance when she realised he was not going to attend. Giving evidence, Carlien Shelly said she discovered the boarder, known as Clemie, in bed with a temperature of 102F and suffering from agonising joint pain in May last year.….Continue Reading
18 January 2013
State schools should copy the private sector and set up army cadet forces to help build character and instil a sense of self-discipline in their pupils, Labour said today. Schools should also recruit more ex-armed service personnel to act as mentors to their pupils, according to the party’s education spokesman, Stephen Twigg. Speaking at a [...]
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18 January 2013
A 10-year-old boy was today hailed Britain’s most dedicated Cub Scout – after earning all 54 badges in just two years. Tristan Gee has achieved one new badge every two weeks since he joined his troop in 2010 and has so many he almost ran out of space on his cub jumper. The schoolboy joined [...]
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20 April 2012
In the long-running tradition of cute kids narrating things on YouTube, BBC America presented this gem Thursday: children supposedly auditioning to replace narrator David Attenborough on its hit nature series Planet Earth. In honor of Earth Day, BBC America is playing the full, uncut version of the nature docu-series for the first time on April [...]
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