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Teachers had to arrange morning-after pills for girls as young as 14 after a class party degenerated into an orgy of binge-drinking, drugtaking and underage sex. The school said yesterday that "a disturbingly high" number of pupils had unprotected sex while drunk as up to 200 teenagers ran riot at a village hall. In stark terms, it warned parents of the risk of pregnancy and sexually-transmitted disease, telling them: "Assume the worst." During the unsupervised party the hall was badly damaged and nearby residents were horrified when the revellers spilled out into the street, among them a boy stripped to his boxer shorts and scantily-clad girls. The local pub landlord said he was threatened when he refused to sell them alcohol and cigarettes. It went so far out of control that the school has taken the dramatic step of writing to all parents graphically describing what went on. ] The party was held at the village institute in Wray, on the edge of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, by Year 11 pupils from Queen Elizabeth School in nearby Kirkby Lonsdale. Parents and hall officials are believed to have been told there would be adult supervision, but the teenagers had apparently forged signatures. After complaints from villagers, the comprehensive's deputy head, Alison Hughes, wrote to parents in stark terms. Along with "significant and harmful quantities" of drink, the children had also taken illegal drugs. Mrs Hughes added that underage sex among the partygoers - aged between 14 and 16 - had been widespread and warned that some of them may be at risk of pregnancy or sexually-transmitted diseases. She said most of the girls who had unprotected sex "were too drunk to be in control of themselves. The risks are real. Assume the worst." The girls were referred for sexual health care. Mrs Hughes also reported criminal-damage to the hall and said one boy "could have died" as a result of the cocktail of drink and drugs he apparently unwittingly consumed. Villagers said some of the children tried to break into the ambulance that took him to hospital. The deputy head said many parents wrongly assumed that because the party was being held at a village hall, there would be a responsible adult involved, and urged them to be more careful in future. "This is the underside of teenage life in this area," she added. Around 70 children from the school are thought to have been among the estimated 200 party-goers. The event is thought to have been organised by two friends who sold tickets to classmates, many of whom passed the details to others. Neil Taplin, landlord of the George and Dragon, said youths had urinated against his pub's walls and sworn when he refused to serve them alcohol and cigarettes. Although an ambulance crew attended, no calls were apparently made to police. Locals who went to clean up said they found broken glass, bloodstains and evidence of drug-taking. A new sink had been smashed. Sue Rowland, who chairs the village institute committee, said the pupils had forged adults' signatures, leading them to believe it would be a supervised event. She added: "We haven't received an apology from any of the teenagers." It is not the first time children from the school have been accused of running riot. In December 2006 there were tales of drunkenness, damage and sex after a group booked out the village institute in Kirkby Lonsdale itself. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=32

Top Gear's Richard Hammond in pole to take over F1 coverage on BBC It could be “hello Richard Hammond” and “goodbye Gary Lineker” after a dramatic day during which broadcasters battled for Britain’s most popular sports rights. Hammond, the Top Gear presenter who survived a high-speed crash, is in pole position to become the face of Formula One after the BBC reclaimed the sport in a £200 million deal. In a surprise move, ITV dumped Formula One after 12 years, claiming that it was not commercially viable despite the emergence of Lewis Hamilton as a British contender for the world championship. The BBC plans a “brighter, bolder, faster” presentation, screening races live via broadband and mobile phones as well as conventional television. But last night ITV claimed victory in the sports battle after retaining rights to live midweek Champions League football, which is vital for the network’s ratings and advertisers. The football deal means Gary Line-ker and Alan Hansen, the BBC’s top pundits, have little top-flight action to justify their £2 million three-year contracts. The BBC has also lost the FA Cup and live England matches. ITV is believed to have offered Adrian Chiles, the popular presenter of the BBC The One Show, a £750,000-a-year position as the “face of football”, with the Champions League as a lure. There will be plenty for Lineker and Hansen to do, the BBC insisted. The BBC will screen live games from the Championship next year, offering fixtures such as Scunthorpe United versus Colchester. The Top Gear team, however, will be let loose in the Monte Carlo pit lane and Formula One’s other glamorous locations in an attempt to extend the audience beyond “petrolheads”. Murray Walker, the veteran commentator and never one for understatement, said he was “absolutely flabbergasted” at the sport’s return to the BBC. However, MPs questioned the corporation’s decision to spend £200 million on an event already shown on terrestrial television. ITV activated a break clause in its contract with the motor sport’s governing body, Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula One Administration. Races, which take place off-peak on Sundays and sometimes in the early hours, attract a relatively small audience compared with the six million who watch a midweek Champions League football match. The BBC was offering a “fresh face” and a commitment to exploit Formula One fully across radio, television and digital media during the five-year deal, Mr Ecclestone said. Coverage will be influenced by the success of the Jeremy Clarkson-fronted Top Gear when the five-year deal begins next year. Dominic Coles, BBC director of sport rights, said: “When Lewis Hamilton did a test lap on Top Gear it got more viewers than the Brazilian Grand Prix. Bernie was very impressed with the Top Gear proposition and there will be cross-fertilisation between the show and the races.” Clarkson and James May, Hammond’s co-conspirators, will also join in the grand prix fun but insiders believe “The Hamster” has a special affinity with drivers after his crash. Web message boards yesterday urged the BBC to revive The Chain, the Fleetwood Mac theme which accompanied race coverage. Walker said: “I was lying in bed listening to the news this morning and I almost fell out of bed when I heard it. It’s an amazing development because I think ITV did and do a superb job.” Andrew Mackinlay, the Labour MP, said Formula One should be shown on commercial television and the licence fee directed towards “real, competitive” sport. The BBC promised that money would not be diverted from coverage of grassroots sports. Gearing up for trouble — Richard Hammond was seriously injured after crashing a jet-powered dragster at 300mph — Top Gear was accused of causing environmental damage after presenters drove across the Makgadikgadi salt pans in Botswana and a Scottish peat bog — A race across the Arctic Circle was condemned by Greenpeace as “highly irresponsible” — The BBC had to apologise and pay damages to a Somerset parish council after Jeremy Clarkson rammed a pickup truck into a chestnut tree — Stunts were criticised by MPs in 1999 for being “obsessed with acceleration” while road safety campaigners called for the show to be scrapped claiming it “glamourises speed” — Clarkson was also criticised after saying the Daihatsu Copen was “a bit ginger beer”, Cockney rhyming slang for “queer”. Source: Times database http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3593917.ece

An elderly man has killed himself by programming a robot to shoot him in the head after building the machine from plans downloaded from the internet. Francis Tovey, 81, who lived alone in Burleigh Heads on the Australian Gold Coast, was found dead in his driveway. According to the Gold Coast Bulletin, he had been unhappy about the demands of relatives living elsewhere in Australia that he should move out of his home and into care. Notes left by Mr Tovey — who was born in England — revealed that he had scoured the internet for plans before constructing his complex machine, which involved a jigsaw power tool and was connected to a .22 semi-automatic pistol loaded with four bullets. It could fire multiple shots once triggered remotely. At 7am on Tuesday he set the robot up in the driveway of his £450,000 house and activated it. His notes suggested that Mr Tovey chose to kill himself in the driveway because he knew there were workmen building a new house next door who would find his body. The scheme worked, as carpenter Daniel Skewes heard gunshots and ran to Mr Tovey's home. "I thought I heard three shots and when we ran next door he was lying on the driveway with gunshot wounds to the head," Mr Skewes told the GCB. A neighbour, who did not want to be named, told the newspaper that Mr Tovey had lived at his home on Gabrielle Grove since 1984. "He was a really marvellous man, an ideal neighbour and I will miss him greatly," she said. "He was born in England, like I was, and we used to enjoy our tea together. He had visitors from England and family interstate from somewhere far away in Australia. "There was no inkling of anything amiss, it is just very sad." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3591734.ece

A beaver that escaped from captivity has been found living wild on the banks of the Thames, more than 400 years after the species became extinct in Britain. The European beaver has been sighted on the river several times since Christmas. The Environment Agency has now called in a wildlife group from Gloucestershire, which breeds beavers, to try to trap it. Graham Scholey, of the Environment Agency, said: “This beaver has escaped from captivity, although the source is currently unknown. Measures are in hand to recapture the beaver and its location is not being disclosed to ensure that the operation can take place with minimal interference with the animal.” A number of young willow trees have been felled across the river, but Mr Scholey said there was little chance of the beaver building a dam and causing flooding. “European beavers are capable of building dams. But it is clear that this beaver has been living largely unnoticed,” he said. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3599601.ece

The Middle East's first women-only hotel has opened in Saudi Arabia. It will cater primarily to businesswomen, who work completely covered from head to toe in public and have to observe strict segregation. The hotel, in Riyadh, has 25 rooms and boasts fine dining and conference facilities, as well as a range of health and beauty treatments. Its executive director said the response to the idea of a hotel just for women had been overwhelming. The Luthan Hotel & Spa is owned by a group of 20 Saudi princesses and businesswomen. It hopes to attract expatriates from the nearby diplomatic quarter as well as local women. Inauguration It is the first spa hotel in the kingdom available to women all the time - pools in other hotels are only open to women on certain fixed days or hours. Saudi Arabia, where the doctrine of Islam known as Wahhabism is applied, strictly enforces the separation of the sexes in public. Women are prevented from mixing with men other than relatives, from driving cars and from employment in many jobs. They are required to cover themselves in Islamic dress when in public. Our correspondent Frances Harrison says it is a huge bonus that inside the hotel they can move around uncovered as if they were at home. Luthan Hotel & Spa executive director Lorraine Coutinho said: "Inside this physical structure, we are all women. We even have bell-women. We are women-owned, women-managed and women-run." The inauguration of the hotel was attended by Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, secretary general of the Supreme Commission for Tourism. Saudi tourism officials who attended the launch have encouraged other women to invest in similar hotels across the kingdom. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7305549.stm

A car bomb has exploded outside a Guardia Civil barracks in the north of Spain after a warning call from Basque separatists, police say. The explosion at the city of Calahorra, in the Rioja wine region, left one policeman with a minor injury. Spanish media said the area was cleared before the device went off at 1300GMT. The Socialist Party of recently re-elected Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said it "forcefully condemns this new attack by Eta". A man claiming to represent Eta telephoned highway police stating the location, make and colour of the vehicle, at around 1230 GMT, half an hour before the blast, Spanish media reported. A blue Honda, stolen at gunpoint hours earlier from a couple who were later found trussed up and abandoned in a rural area, was used in the attack, according to Spanish media. Eta was blamed for the killing of a former town councillor in the Basque region two days before the Spanish general election earlier this month. The organisation, which ended a 15-month ceasefire in June 2007 after failed peace talks, seeks independence for regions in northern Spain and south-west France. For more than three decades it has waged a bloody campaign that has led to more than 800 deaths. Many of those killed have been members of the Guardia Civil, Spain's national police force, and both local and national politicians opposed to Eta's separatist demands. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7308640.stm

A US judge has ordered Starbucks to repay its California coffee-makers more than $100m (£50m) in tips that were paid to shift supervisors. San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett said the coffee-makers - "baristas" - were entitled to $86m in back tips, plus interest. She issued an injunction banning supervisors from sharing future tips. She said the practice broke a state law barring managers and supervisors from obtaining a share of employee tips. A Starbucks spokeswoman, Valerie O'Neil, said the company planned to appeal against the ruling, which she described as "fundamentally unfair and beyond all common sense and reason". The lawsuit was filed in October 2004 by Jou Chou, a former Starbucks barista in La Jolla, California. In 2006 the suit was granted class action status, allowing it to go forward on behalf of as many as 100,000 former and current baristas in the chain's California stores. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7308233.stm

Doctors in Glasgow are treating Scotland's first diagnosed case of the drug-resistant XDR tuberculosis strain. The man who has the XDR-TB strain is reported to have come to the UK from Somalia. He is now in isolation at the Gartnavel General Hospital. The "super strength" strain of the disease is extremely resistant to traditional antibiotics and has to be treated with a cocktail of drugs. Doctors have said there is no risk to the general public. This is the first case of its kind reported in the UK since the revised definition of XDR-TB was published by the World Health Organization in 2006. However, an earlier case in 2003 was retrospectively identified as XDR-TB. The disease is prevalent in many other countries. About half of XDR-TB cases are fatal. It can take up to 18 months for an infected patient to recover. XDR-TB needs to be treated with a combination of antibiotics to ensure that the treatment is successful in curing the patient and preventing transmission to others. Tuberculosis spreads through close and prolonged contact with the infected person. TB is a disease which usually attacks the lungs, but it can affect almost any part of the body. A person with TB does not necessarily feel ill but the symptoms can include a cough that will not go away, feeling tired, weight loss, loss of appetite, fever, night sweats and coughing up blood. Dr Oliver Blatchford, a public health consultant at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said XDR-TB is no more infectious that ordinary TB but does require different treatment. Dr Blatchford added: "The contacts of this case are being screened in the same way as ordinary TB contacts and will be monitored closely to ensure that any further cases are identified early and treated quickly." Dr Jim McMenamen, a consultant epidemiologist at Health Protection Scotland, added: "I don't think that there's any risk to the general population because we have taken very prompt measures to try and manage the chance of this person spreading the infection to others." Nearly nine million people a year fall ill from TB and more than one and a half million die from it. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 500,000 people a year become infected with drug-resistant TB. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7308364.stm

A French woman with an incurable tumour who lost a legal challenge seeking euthanasia did not die of natural causes, her postmortem has found. Former schoolteacher Chantal Sebire, a mother of three, was found dead on Wednesday after a court rejected her request to let doctors help her die. Ms Sebire's tumour had left her blind, disfigured and suffering intense pain. The case has sparked intense debate, with politicians calling for France's euthanasia law to be changed. Legislation adopted in 2005 allows families to request that life-support equipment for terminally ill patients be switched off, but does not allow a doctor to take action to end a patient's life. TV appeal Dijon prosecutor Jean-Pierre Alacchi, who is dealing with the death, said there was no specific cause to explain her death. Tests were under way to find out whether anyone helped her die, he said. Ms Sebire, 52, had appealed on French television last month for the right to die, saying she could no longer see properly, taste or smell. She described how children ran away from her in the street. But a magistrate in Dijon said the case could only be rejected under French law. This prompted Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot to call on Thursday for a review of the law. "[Ms Sebire] has raised extremely serious questions of life, suffering and death," she said, quoted by Le Monde newspaper. Meanwhile former Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius has proposed a bill allowing patients in very exceptional cases to benefit from "active help to die", the newspaper said. Ms Sebire suffered from an extremely rare form of cancer in the nasal cavity known as an esthesioneuroblastoma. Only 200 cases of the disease have been recorded worldwide in the past two decades. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7308746.stm

Mars appears to be covered in salt crystals from ancient dried-up lakes, new evidence suggests. A Nasa probe has found signs that the southern hemisphere is dusted with chloride mineral, perhaps "table salt". US scientists think the mineral formed when water evaporated from salty lakes or soil billions of years ago. The deposits, similar to salt-pans on Earth, are a good place to search for traces of past life preserved in salt, they report in the journal Science. The evidence comes from a camera on Mars Odyssey, which has been mapping the Red Planet since early 2002. The camera images Mars in the visible and infrared parts of the spectrum in order to work out the distribution of minerals on the surface. It found about 200 places with spectral "fingerprints" consistent with chloride salt deposits. All were in the middle to low latitudes of the ancient, heavily cratered terrain in the southern highlands. Team member Professor Philip Christensen, of the School of Earth and Planetary Exploration at Arizona State University, Tempe, said the most likely chloride mineral "would be good old table salt (sodium chloride)". He said many of the deposits lay in basins with channels leading into them, the kind of feature that is consistent with water flowing in over a long time. He told BBC News: "Two possible mechanisms would be the evaporation of a large body of water (like a salt lake on Earth), or capillary action in the soil that could draw salt-rich water toward the surface, where the water evaporates and the salt is left behind and accumulates. "Either case is exciting because it implies a large amount of water near the surface." Warmer, wetter The team - which also includes members from the University of Hawaii, University of Arizona and Stony Brook University - thinks the deposits formed about four billion years ago, when Mars was probably much warmer and wetter. They locations range in area from one square kilometre to about 25 square kilometres, which approaches the size of some of the largest lakes on Earth. The discovery suggests that there was once a lot of water near the surface of Mars and a source of energy, namely sunlight, said Dr Christensen. He added: "Salt is also an excellent means of preserving organic material, so if there was life present in the distant past, the signature might still be there." The scientists say the areas with chloride minerals should be given a high priority for future rover missions to Mars. Until now, efforts have largely concentrated on a handful of places that show evidence of clay or sulphate minerals. Andrew Knoll of Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, who was not part of the study, said it suggested that water once occurred widely on the Martian surface, as salty transient deposits - playa lakes, not oceans. But he said the findings carried "a double-edge sword for astrobiology". "Water is the first sign that an environment might have been habitable, but waters that precipitate table salt on Mars would have been much saltier than any waters known to support microbial populations on Earth," he explained. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7302591.stm

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age of 90. The Somerset-born author achieved his greatest fame in 1968 when his short story The Sentinel was turned into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. His visions of space travel and computing sparked the imagination of readers and scientists alike. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse paid tribute, hailing the writer as a "great visionary". Since 1995, the author had been largely confined to a wheelchair by post-polio syndrome. He died at 0130 local time (2000 GMT) of respiratory complications and heart failure, according to his aide, Rohan De Silva. Far-seeing scientist "Sir Arthur has left written instructions that his funeral be strictly secular," his secretary, Nalaka Gunawardene, was quoted as saying by news agency AFP. She said the author had requested "absolutely no religious rites of any kind". A farmer's son, Sir Arthur was educated at Huish's Grammar School in Taunton before joining the civil service. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, and foresaw the concept of communication satellites. Sir Arthur's detailed descriptions of space shuttles, super-computers and rapid communications systems inspired millions of readers. When asked why he never patented his idea for communication satellites, he said: "I did not get a patent because I never thought it will happen in my lifetime." In the 1940s, he maintained man would reach the moon by the year 2000, an idea dismissed at the time. He was the author of more than 100 fiction and non-fiction books, and his writings are credited by many observers with giving science fiction a human and practical face. He collaborated on the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey with the film's director Stanley Kubrick. 'Great prophet' British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore had known Sir Arthur since they met as teenagers at the British Interplanetary Society. Sir Patrick paid tribute to his friend, remembering him as "a very sincere person" with "a strong sense of humour". Tributes have also come from George Whitesides, the executive director of the National Space Society, where Sir Arthur served on the board of governors, and fellow science fiction writer Terry Pratchett. The author married in 1953, and was divorced in 1964. He had no children. He moved to the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka in 1956 after embarking on a study of the Great Barrier Reef. There, he pursued his interest in scuba diving, even setting up a diving school at Hikkaduwa, near the capital, Colombo. "Sometimes I am asked how I would like to be remembered," he recalled recently. "I have had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer and space promoter. Of all these, I would like to be remembered as a writer." A statement from Sir Arthur's office said he had recently reviewed the final manuscript of his latest novel. The Last Theorem, co-written with Frederik Pohl, will be published later this year, it said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm

yay!!! I might remember to watch it wioth no adverts!!!!

Not a bad episode that one, but naughty cliffhanger ending!! Questions Answered: What happened to Walt & Michael? Did they ever get away? Is Michael, Ben's spy? And why is he not going under the name Michael? Because they have the flight manifest and would immediately know something? Yes to all. They turned up at Mike's Ma's house. Walt doesn't want to speak to Mike. Mike ran away on a boat as Ben's spy. The Islanders can get off without the submarine!!!!!!! No real questions generated by that episode

I ordered my Mum one seeing as though Ian's already used ours :(

When does that start then?

Good Episode!! nice twist at the end with the jin/Sun flash forward, no hang on a sec, Sun flash forward/Jin flash back. and verrry sad :( So for this episode, Questions answered: Who are the people on the boat if they're not with Penny? Employed by Penny's Dad?!!?? We now have 4 Oceanic survivors: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid. Who are the last 2? Sun is one What happened to Walt & Michael? Did they ever get away? Michael is on the ship but has a different name And the questions that now exist: We now have 5 definite Oceanic survivors: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun. One possible: Aaron. Ecept i'm not convinced he would count as he wasn't born and therefore not on the passenger list. So is there 1 left? And who is it? Why is the date of Jin's death 22-Sep-2004? Was he left on the island? Or did he die in the meantime? He said in that episode that he would always go where Sun goes so more likely he died than stayed. (Earlier flash forwards seem to suggest that the 6 told the world that they were the only survivors, which would explain death date, maybe so the rest could stay in peace on the island) Is Michael, Ben's spy? And why is he not going under the name Michael? Because they have the flight manifest and would immediately know something? Why did Regina kill herself?

Weeeeeeee! Yay Wales! Triple Crown, Grand Slam & won the whole tournament! :D And to think when i first started watching the 5 Nations, approx 12/13 years ago, you were always in contention for the wooden spoon. :P

I dunno about killing him for playing a cd, might have to consider it depending on the volume ..............................

she ruined the Flake advert!!!!!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Last week's episode hurt my head so much, I forgot they answered a question!! What happened to the helicopter? It got lost in some weired time-space conituum and turned up late I don't think this week answered any, but I do have more to add. Where is Mrs Psychiatrist hiding out? How is Ben contacting the Others when he's locked up? Why is Penny's Dad so desperate to find the island? And if he's so important, why would he stoop to beating people up himself? Why did John let Ben out? Can't be a good idea. Will Ben really attempt to go after Jack because Juliet 'belongs' to him?

Noooooooooooooooo! :(

no earthquake cover in the UK so I'm afraid you'll be funding the full cost of a new brew yourself :o