Teacher jailed for sending naked selfies to schoolgirl with smiley face EMOJIS covering his modesty
A secondary school teacher has been jailed after he sent naked selfies of himself to a schoolgirl - with his genitals covered by smiley-face EMOJIS. Pervy Christopher Wood, 33, sent the explicit pictures of himself to the teenage pupil on Snapchat, who then responded by sending a topless snap of herself. A court heard he had a "sexual interest" in schoolgirls and also made internet searches for '"student, teacher and sex" before he joined the school in 2015. The Chemistry...
A $1 million prize has been announced for anyone who can solve an allegedly “simple” chess puzzle.
A $1 million prize has been announced for anyone who can solve an allegedly "simple" chess puzzle. Researchers have thrown down the gauntlet to computer programmers to find a solution to a chess puzzle -- but it could take thousands of years to solve. Computer scientist Professor Ian Gent and his colleagues at the University of St Andrews are now challenging computer programmers to solve it for $1 million (£776,478). They believe any programme capable of solving it would be...
Teacher caught on camera slapping boy 40 times ‘for failing to answer register’
A teacher has been fired after being caught on CCTV slapping a pupil 40 TIMES in the face - because he failed to answer the register. Disturbing footage shows Ritesh Gupta, eight, weeping as teacher Retica V John hands out the brutal punishment in front of his stunned classmates. She struck him up to 40 times in just two minutes before dragging him towards a blackboard and hitting his head against it. The attack at St. John Vianney School...
Restaurant Review: The Greek Larder
Amorously known as ‘ladies’ finger’, you may be forgiven for believing that okra’s pet namesake is derived from a squalid woman who’d been rummaging around in the dirt of the vegetable patch - on discovering okra - in desperate search of something less assiduously unpleasant. I, for one, loathe okra. It’s less a matter of taste (which is has very little) but of emetic texture. When I recently voiced such angst on Twitter, the responses that followed were surprisingly less...
Diana “superfan” splashed £3,000 travelling from Australia to lay flowers at Kensington Palace, on the 20th anniversary of her death.
A self confessed Diana "superfan" splashed £3,000 travelling from Australia to lay flowers at her former home, Kensington Palace, on the 20th anniversary of her death. An emotional Trish Hoskin, 56, told how she desperately wanted to attend Princess Diana's funeral in 1997, but couldn't due to work commitments. The software developer said when she realised the 20th anniversary of Princess Di's death was approaching she arranged flights from Adelaide as she 'had to be in London to pay tribute'....
Health spa boss says alleged victim was in gay relationship with masseur
A female health spa boss accused of drunkenly groping a male client claimed he had been in a gay relationship with his masseur, a court heard today (thurs). Kerry Brocklebank, 43, said she may have interrupted an "inappropriate relationship" when she walked in on her alleged victim as he was waiting for a massage. Jurors heard that the man - who cannot be named for legal reasons - was lying on a massage table just in his underpants and in...
Drug dealers caught with 11kg of cannabis – and a SUBMACHINE GUN
A pair of drug dealers were caught with 11 kilograms of cannabis - and a SUBMACHINE GUN. Dajour Shakeem Da Costa, 21, and Jordan Oxley, 22, were arrested after police discovered their Skorpion submachine gun, a type of submachine gun once used by Soviet Union special forces. Cops seized the weapon along with cannabis worth an estimated £125,000, weighing scales, drug paraphernalia, mobile phones and a large amount of cash. Da Costa and Oxley, both from London, have now been...
Couple loved church they wed in so much they turned it into a stunning holiday home
A couple loved the church they got married in so much they decided to buy it, renovate it and turn it into a stunning HOLIDAY HOME. Anne Monroe, 65, and her husband Bill, 71, married at St Luke's Church in the Kielder National Park in 1987 and have since had each of their four sons christened in front of the grand stained-glass window. Anne was even christened at the church herself and has had a lifetime affinity with the building....
Hollywood is “racist” says Marvel star Chloe Bennet after changing her name to get roles
Chloe Bennet, who stars in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, said she had to change her name from Chloe Wang in order to make it in Hollywood. She told an Instagram follower who queried her name change: "Hollywood is racist and wouldn't cast me with a last name that made them uncomfortable." "Changing my last name doesn't change the fact that my BLOOD is half Chinese, that I lived in China, speak Mandarin or that I was culturally raised both American...