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Oversubscribed Middlesbrough school credits ‘satisfactory’ Ofsted report

Lusitania school - setting pride alightThe report singled out ‘variable’ standards of teaching and ‘low-level’ task setting – marked improvements on the previous ratings of ‘woeful’ and ‘non-existent’.

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Posted: Dec 20th, 2011
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Teacher defends driving golf balls at children

‘If a kid in my class doesn’t know that a golfball with 350 dimples employs a Magnus Lift, well, he deserves a 7-iron towards the knackers,’ said Archibald McAughtrie (Handicap 18).

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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2011
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Experts regret trying to shed light on boy raised by moths

The team encountered problems as they tried to capture him. “We prodded him with a net but still he played possum. Eventually we offered him a blanket, and he sat down and nibbled holes in it.”

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Posted: Nov 17th, 2011
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35-year-old man still searching for the ‘farm’ his childhood dog was sent to

‘I’ve searched all the farms locally, but I still haven’t found any evidence that Buttons lived there. All I can think is that my parents had to send him to a farm a bit further afield.’

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Posted: Nov 2nd, 2011
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Man mistakes chasing his children up the stairs shouting ‘Raarrr!!!’ for parenting

'dads get tired too'A father from Solihull has encountered a barrage of criticism after his long-suffering wife revealed that ‘chasing the children up the stairs on all fours going ‘Raarrr!!!’ every evening’ was his sole contribution to their upbringing. The nightly routine – which Dan Hurrell, 37, described as, ‘Just a bit of fun, that’s all’ – has, after six years, finally driven his wife, Debbie, to breaking point.

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Posted: Sep 29th, 2011
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