Tesco has defended its decision to label a children’s chemistry set a boys’ toy, despite criticism from gender equality campaigners. Oh. Those. Campaigners from Let Toys Be Toys, an online pressure group that is calling on retailers not to limit children’s development by promoting separate “boys’” and “girls’” toys, said that Tesco’s labelling of its “Action Science Chemistry Set” was sexist. A bunch of people with too much time on…
Children should get lessons in prison life to stop them becoming involved in crime, according to the Duke of Westminster’s daughter. Lady Edwina Grosvenor, who has dedicated her life to prison reform, today called for the classes to be included in the national curriculum. Why does everyone with a tuppenny-ha’penny cause or idea feel they have the right to demand it be shoehorned into the bulging national curriculum? Surely children…
Eric Samuel MBE, CEO of Community Food Enterprise, says Barking and Dagenham is rife with areas where affordable healthy food is scarce or difficult to access. It is? News to those of us who grew up there and still have occasion to visit or pass through! He said: “Barking and Dagenham is by far the worst. If you look around the Thames View Estate in Barking you will see there…
Experts today praised a London school where lessons start at 10am saying it can help boost grades and reduce levels of depression and self-harm. Yes, I’m sure it can. Until they try to find a job keeping those hours… Russell Foster, professor of circadian neuroscience (Ed: !!) at Oxford University, said more schools should take account of the fact that teenagers have a biological pre-disposition to go to bed later and get…
…we aren’t that far behind them: According to MSNBC, Fox News Baltimore, and a host of other media outlets, the latest case of OMG (oh my gosh, or perhaps it should be called “oh my guns”) an incident involving Josh Welch, a 7-year-old second grade student at Park Elementary School in the Brooklyn Park area of Baltimore, Maryland, made the news on Friday when the boy was suspended from school…
Children commit crime because they lack morals and not just because of the environment they live in, according to a study carried out by local researchers which has now been finalised by Paige, a representative for Avon and Somerset Constabulary. Really? Well, I never! Who’da thunk it? *continue ad infinitum* Researchers studied around 600 young people in Bristol and discovered that most adolescent crime is not just youthful opportunism. In…
Reni Eddo-Lodge is an English Literature undergraduate. So what qualifies her to write this column, well, I just can’t fathom… Just yesterday it was revealed that a number of religious schools in the UK chose to opt out of providing female pupils the HPV vaccine – an immunisation that the World Health Organisation recommends young women receive to prevent cervical cancers. *crickets* So? It is an absolute scandal that young…
Barrowford artist Philippe Handford had been set to create the 1,700ft wide temporary artwork to mark the 400th anniversary of the infamous witch trails (sic), which was intended to be ‘a defining image for Pendle’. However, objections were raised by some Barley residents and the Bishop of Burnley also spoke out against the plans. Pendle Council decided not to go ahead with plans to fund the £1,500 project. I think…
Usually around this time of year I’ll write something about what a pointless, time wasting, meaningless circle jerk Dirt Hour is, and how, while I won’t be turning on every light and then going out to drive round the neighbourhood for an hour to belch some extra carbon, I plan to mark it by not changing what I’m doing in any way at all. I’ll note how pointless Dirt Hour…
The advertising watchdog has cleared publicity material for the NSPCC after complaints that its reference to child abuse was “disturbing and offensive”. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) investigation concerned a DVD sent as a direct mailing in December. Oh, lovely! Just like those ghastly blowins or full-page adverts of moppets with hare lips you get in the Sunday supplements. Well, never mind. Haven’t we just learned that if something’s ‘offensive’…
New road markings outside a Whitehall Primary School have been condemned as an accident waiting to happen. Because they look like a zebra crossing. A real zebra, that is… The zebra-print markingshave been painted across Johnsons Lane outside The Limes Nursery and just around the corner from Whitehall Primary School.The new marking is not technically a zebra crossing and there are concerns it could cause confusion. Presumably, though, the absence…
The 23-year-old, who hands out leaflets outside Hanley bars, had become friends with Greg Twigg after linking up on Facebook. But on February 4 Moult saw Mr Twigg catch a taxi with another woman in Hanley. Sandra Whitehurst, prosecuting, said:“Moult went to the cab, opened the door and head-butted Mr Twigg to the face.” Charming! Moult, of Bonnard Close, Meir Park, told police she was so wound up she saw…
Kerry Andrew asks the question that (she clearly thinks) should be on the lips of everyone, everywhere: … is there a gender gap in the music industry? Well, frankly, that probably what you’d expect from a ‘freelance composer, performer and music educator based in London, specialising in experimental vocal music, choral music, folk, jazz and electronica‘ who also happens to have breasts, I suppose… Any chance the answer’s ‘No’? Well…
When Liz Haughton opened The Park Café in Knowle West, Bristol, her vision was to create a community eatery serving wholesome and organic foods. Chips, coke and sweets were off the Daventry Road menu and replaced with dishes such as butternut squash soup and homemade bread. Wot, no chips? Why, no! If customers want chips, they can clearly go elsewhere. And…it seems that’s just what they did! But after just…
Taking all of Winchester’s cars off the road for a year would still not be enough to meet the city council’s carbon footprint targets. That was the stark warning from a city councillor worried about the scale of the challenge facing Winchester City Council as it tries to cut carbon emissions by 30 per cent in four years. Not that they wouldn’t like to do just that, I suspect. Except…
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