Essex schoolboy saves suicidal woman...then gets detention

Seeded on Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:41 PM EDT (the Mail online)

Schoolboy Oliver Adams, 15, from Romford, Essex, was able to stop a woman from jumping off a bridge to her death. Unfortunately for Oliver, he was only able to perform this act of heroism because he had snuck out of school grounds during lunchtime to buy some chips and a drink.

education, suicide-attempt, schoolboy, heroism, romford

Edinburgh University denies 'anti-English' slur

Seeded on Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:51 PM EDT (BBC News)

Edinburgh University was caught in an 'anti-English' storm after rejecting claims that they give priority for places at their institution to local applicants.

education, university, controversy, scotland, edinburgh

Tories set to tax food, says Ed Balls

Seeded on Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:08 AM EDT (MSN)

Accusations from Cabinet member Ed Balls that if the Conservatives win the election, they will introduce a tax on food, and raise VAT.

tax, politics, uk-politics, tories, uk-news, vat

UK's Least Attractive City

Seeded on Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:17 PM EDT (MSN)

According to a recent poll, Bradford is the least attractive city in the United Kingdom, earning descriptions such as "dangerous, ugly and boring" from visitors. Second place on the list was fellow Yorkshire city Wakefield, which was said to be "dull and depressing".

travel, poll, uk, cities, least-attractive, most-visited

Google's "irresponsible" images of SAS base

Seeded on Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:11 PM EDT (BBC News)

Hereford's local MP has been outraged that Google has allowed images of the county's Credenhill SAS headquarters to be included in the Street View mode of Google Earth, arguing that it could provoke terrorist attacks.

google, technology, internet, images, sas, mod

Universities aim to raise tuition fees

Seeded on Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:31 AM EDT (BBC News)

The title is pretty self explanatory-- "More than half of university heads want students to pay at least £5,000 per year or for there to be no upper limit." According to the National Union of Students, the consequences of raising the fees to £7,000, for example, would be debts …

education, university, tuition-fees

Cameron Fails To Learn

Seeded on Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:51 PM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

Matthew Norman points out the similarities between the rise to power in their political circles of Tony Blair and David Cameron, stipulating the fact that the latter seems not to have learned from Blair's mistakes in running his leadership with a small 'clique'.

politics, blair, tory, cameron