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A school governor broke truancy laws to take his child out of classesfor a family trip to Spain.
Paul Lawton, 42, was caught after his daughter Emma, 13, posted holiday snaps on Facebook, enraging other pupils’ parents.
MrLawton and his wife Emma, 33, each got
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Megan Roberts, the university student who has been missing in York for almost a week, probably fell in the city’s River Ouse while drunk, police have said.
Detectives hunting for the missing 20-year-old said there was no evidence of foul play and all the indications were that she had met with a tragic accident.
Superintendent Phil Cain also stressed there was nothing to suggest that the York St John University student’s disappearance was in any way connected with the case of Claudia Lawrence – the university chef who went missing in York in 2009 and who police believe has been murdered.
Speaking close to the Lendal Bridge, over the swollen River Ouse in York, Mr Cain said: “The strongest and most probable line of inquiry being pursued by police is that Megan, affected by alcohol, has entered the river.”
He added: “On balance, this presents as a group of young friends on a night out that is likely to have ended in tragedy.”
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28 Jan 2014Miss Roberts, who is from Wetherby, West Yorkshire, and lived in the Clifton area of York, was last seen in the early hours of Thursday following a night out.
But it was only when family and friends realised earlier this week that she was missing that the alarm was raised.
North Yorkshire Police have studied CCTV footage and interviewed Miss Roberts' friends in an effort to trace her last movements.
Today a police diver was scouring the river bank close to the Lendal Bridge, near where Miss Roberts was last captured on CCTV.
There had been suggestions that Miss Roberts had expressed some concern about being followed by a stalker shortly before she disappeared but the police said there was “no evidence to indicate foul play”.
Miss Roberts worked as a barmaid at the Lamb and Lion Inn in York during the summer and its manager described her as “very police and friendly”.
In a prepared statement Mr Cain said: "Megan Roberts has now been missing for almost a week. Her disappearance was reported to police by her mother on Monday 27 January 2014 after she had not been in contact with a family or friends for a number of days.
“Understandably there have been growing and grave concerns for her safety which has triggered a great deal of police activity, and interest from the media and the public.
“Some of that activity has played out on social media and has led to a number of theories about her fate including potential links to the Claudia Lawrence case.
“It is very important, not least for Megan’s family and friends, to deal with the facts as they currently present. Those facts are based on evidence resulting from a variety of police enquiries to date.
“It has been established that Megan was one of a group of young adults - all of who were friends - who had been drinking for several hours prior to leaving Popworld night club around 2.10am on Thursday 23, January.
“All in the group including Megan were heavily affected by alcohol. That group whilst together were widely spread out as they made their way from Popworld across Lendal Bridge to McDonalds.
“Having separated, part of the group ran down Tanners Moat, in front of The Maltings public house towards the river looking for the others.
“Megan through the effects of alcohol was the last in the group and bumped into some of the cycle racks as she followed others. CCTV evidence doesNOT show Megan running back up the same street with the others to rejoin the main group.
“All members of the group concerned have been traced and spoken to at length by the police. There is nothing at this stage to indicate that any member of that group of friends or anybody else is directly responsible for Megan’s disappearance.
“A range of other police enquiries, including investigating theories described on social media sites, have been undertaken by a range of police resources including detectives. The results of which does NOT indicate that Megan’s disappearance is the result of any criminal activity.
“Consequently the strongest and most probable line of enquiry being pursued by police is that Megan, affected by alcohol, has entered the river. Clearly we will not be in a position to definitively to confirm this to be the case until Megan is found.
“The possibility still exists that Megan is elsewhere safe and well, but realistically given the passage of time, such a possibility is increasingly remote.
“I emphasise that there is no evidence to indicate foul play of criminality and certainly NO evidence to link Megan’s disappearance to the Claudia Lawrence case.
“On balance, this presents as a group of young friends on a night out that is likely to have ended in tragedy.
“Our primary emphasis will centre on the continual search of the river and the surrounding area using specialist search resources.
"We continue to support Megan’s family with specially trained officers.”
NewsUK News »Crime »Mobile »Martin Evans » AdvertisementThis was another day of biblical extremes at the Australian Open: first searing temperatures, and then thunder, lightning and intense humidity. It was all too much for Jamie Murray, Andy’s older brother, who developed such serious heat exhaustion that he was laid low by multiple cramps.
Andy Murray also looked a little out of sorts as he played a peculiar match against Vincent Millot, the squat French left-hander who – at No 267 in the world – was the lowest-ranked player left in the men’s draw. But then, as Murray Jnr explained, he found it tricky to focus while his brother was racked with pain.
“What was happening with Jamie was more important than my match,” said Murray after his up-and-down 6-2, 6-2, 7-5 win. “It was a little distracting as well and you just try not use up any extra energy.”
After beating Go Soeda on Tuesday, Murray had already questioned whether the authorities at Melbourne Park are too cavalier with the players’ health and safety.
But this was different. It was his own flesh and blood.
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16 Jan 2014“It is easy to say Jamie was only playing doubles and it’s not as physically demanding as the singles,” Andy explained.
“It wasn’t so much that he was cramping but that he was scared. He’s never dealt with anything like that before and being on your own, it’s difficult, so I tried to make sure someone was around him the whole day.”
At least both Murray brothers won their matches. Jamie was playing with his regular partner John Peers, a Melburnian by birth, against two more Australians: Matt Reid and Luke Saville. They scored a 7-6, 7-6 victory in 1 hr 50 min, and it was not until later that Jamie’s exertions began to catch up with him.
“He was a bit tired and sore when he came off the court,” said Murray, “but then it hit him like an hour and a half later. I’ve never had it like that.
“He was struggling for a good three, four hours after the match. He’s never had real cramps like that either. I don’t know how dangerous they are, but they’re very, very uncomfortable. One part of your body goes, and then, when you move, the opposite muscle goes. When it happens the first time, it’s pretty scary.
"Hopefully he’ll be fine tomorrow.”
Murray and Peers had started their match in the Rod Laver Arena soon after 11am, when the temperature stood in the high nineties.
A couple of hours later, the mercury climbed above 110F (43C) for the first time in this extraordinary week, prompting tournament referee Wayne McEwan to invoke the “extreme heat rule” and suspend play for around four hours.
Not before time, said many of the players.
Later, a deluge of gobstopper-sized raindrops flooded the courts and knocked the singles players even further behind schedule. Andy Murray was far from being the last man off court when he finally subdued Millot at 11.58pm.
Having been 5-1 down in the third set, he saved a set point in the next game, and then sprinted for the line with an unbroken sequence of 23 straight points.
Although Murray once won 14 straight points against Feliciano López – the Spaniard who also happens to be his next opponent here – he reckoned that this was comfortably the longest streak of his career.
Millot, who had won only one grand slam match in his career, made an unpredictable opponent. How would he react to playing in front of 15,000 people on one of the greatest stages in tennis?
Not brilliantly, was the answer after three games. One regulation forehand bounced before it reached the net. But then, at the start of the third set, he suddenly started playing like the eponymous Laver – another powerfully built 5ft 8in leftie.
For 20 minutes, there were aces and return winners and some scorching drives down the line off both wings.
Then Murray broke back to move to 2-5, and the magic dried up as abruptly as it had arrived.
So now for Saturday’s third-round match against López, a man Murray holds a 7-0 head-to-head record against. Although perhaps this López will be different, given that he shaved off his trademark Pre-Raphaelite locks on New Year’s Day.
“I was in the ice bath with him after our first-round match and talking to him about it,” said Murray. “He got the all clear from his girlfriend before he did it, no bets or New Year resolutions. But for me his hair was something that made him Feliciano. He’s a bit different now.”
One woman who may be disappointed is Murray’s mother Judy, who once gave López the self-explanatory nickname “Deliciano”.
“What can I say?” López smiled. “Judy is so fine.”
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The Duke of Cambridge declared his new United for Wildlife project can make a real difference to animal conservation as he marvelled at London Zoo's star attractions - the tigers.
William was joined by his father, the Prince of Wales, as he convened the first official meeting of the umbrella organisation he has assembled to help tackle the threat to the world's wildlife.
Before the talks began, the two men - who are both passionate about conservation - toured the tiger enclosure and got close to some of the big cats that face an uncertain future in the wild.
During the tour, the Duke spoke about his plans for United for Wildlife, saying he wanted to get conservation leaders and experts around the table.
He added that he wanted to get "them in one room to focus their energy and their commitment to one cause - particularly obviously this illegal wildlife trade at the moment is such a big issue".
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13 Nov 2013"The idea was that United for Wildlife can progress and we can really start the ball rolling and the momentum and really try and change and tackle this issue," he said.
William went on: "Education is the most important thing as we saw with the shark fin soup campaign - the more education, the more obviously we can put out there and show people and educate them on what they're buying and what they're seeing and really try and change their attitudes.
"I think we've got a real chance of changing the way things are going."
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Telegraph TVNews VideoRoyal Family Video AdvertisementNigella Lawson has denied that her ex-husband Charles Saatchi was wiping cocaine off her nose when a row in a restaurant that led to their divorce.
Miss Lawson, giving evidence for a second day in the fraud trial of two former aides, said Mr Saatchi was guilty of "peddling" lies about the reason for the June bust-up in Scott's in Mayfair.
She also denied a suggestion that she had "lied" to police about her drug use, or that her admission in court yesterday to using cocaine and cannabis amounted to "damage limitation".
Karin Arden, defending Francesca Grillo, who with her sister Elisabetta is accused of fraudulently spending £685,000 on a company credit card, asked Miss Lawson why her admission to taking drugs had not appeared on a police statement she gave when she said she no longer wanted to give evidence.
She had said in the statement that she did not want to give evidence because Mr Saatchi was spreading "false" claims about drug-taking, and Miss Arden said: "You were not frank with police officers. You told a lie because it's not correct to say stories about drugs were untrue."
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04 Dec 2013Miss Lawson said: "It was true in that what my ex-husband had been saying was he was getting cocaine out of my nose at Scott's and I had been completely off my head for 10 years."
Mimicking the motion of Mr Saatchi pinching her nose, she said: "He went like this. It was not only because I hadn't taken cocaine but it was also the case that Mr Saatchi was not examining me for cocaine. That was a story that he made up afterwards because I would not go back and clear his name."
Miss Arden wanted to show the jury a photograph of the incident but was prevented by the judge from doing so.
Miss Arden suggested that Miss Lawson had "used" the case "as a vehicle" to settle scores with Mr Saatchi in front of the world's press.
She replied: "I didn't want to come to court, I would prefer not to because I had been menaced...I prefer to keep my private life private and I was prevented from doing that."
She added: "I'm not proud of the fact that I have taken drugs but that does not make me a drug addict or habitual drug user."
Miss Arden said: "The simple fact is that yesterday in cross-examination only was the first time that you have publicly said that you have taken cocaine and cannabis, and I suggest that on your part was a case of damage limitation."
Miss Lawson said: "I was asked a question and I responded...I have been frank, I have said what I needed to say and I would rather be honest, if ashamed, and explain about the drug usage but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to be bullied and have lies told about an incident that took place in a very humiliating public place."
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This is the moment a blundering BBC newsreader was caught making a throat-cutting gesture during a report on beheading videos being allowed back on Facebook.
Clive Myrie was presenting a story about the site's announcement that it would allow the horrific clips to be shown as long as they are not deemed to "glorify violence".
Reading a statement from the Prime Minister condemning the move, Mr Myrie mistakenly said: "They must explain their actions to worried patients" - instead of the word "parents".
As the camera cut back to Mr Myrie he could be seen making a throat-cutting gesture, presumably to indicate that his mistake should be cut from the broadcast.
But the awkward moment - which happened at around 9.45pm on Tuesday night - was spotted by several viewers who posted remarks online.
Twitter user Joshua Goucher wrote: "Clive Myrie taking the beheading news story very seriously. #CaughtYaClive."
Facebook imposed a temporary ban on beheading videos in May following complaints the graphic content could cause long-term psychological damage.
But bosses have now decided to remove the block on the grounds that the site is used to share information about world events, such as acts of terrorism and human rights abuses.
However, the company, which allows anyone aged 13 or over to be a member, said that it was considering adding warnings.
The new policy was brought to light after a video was posted on Facebook showing a woman being beheaded by a Mexican drugs cartel.
Users who complained were sent a statement claiming the one-minute film did not breach the company's policy on violence.
It read: "Thanks for your report. We reviewed the video you reported, but found it doesn't violate Facebook's community standard on graphic violence, which includes depicting harm to someone or something, threats to the public's safety, or theft and vandalism.
"People are sharing this video on Facebook to condemn it.
"Just as TV news programmes often show upsetting images of atrocities, people can share upsetting videos on Facebook to raise awareness of actions or causes.
"While this video is shocking, our approach is designed to preserve people's rights to describe, depict and comment on the world in which we live."
Most men can't knit and even more can't run a marathon.But David Babcock does both, at the same time.
Yesterday, the 41-year-old University of Central Missouri graphic design professor set a Guinness world record for longest scarf knitted during a marathon.
The previous record was set by Susie Hewer during last April's London Marathon with a scarf that measured 6 feet, 9 inches.
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