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A mother has vented her fury after her daughter was given a detention warning for her skirt being too short. Tammy Humphreys' daughter arrived home from Ysgol Eifionydd in Porthmadog on Monday with a note from the school saying she would be sent to detention if she wore the same outfit again.  The black skirt was deemed too short as it was above the knee rather than being knee-length as the school's uniform policy states. A mother has vented her fury after her daughter was given a detention warning for her skirt being too short Tammy said she 'couldn't believe it' when her daughter told her she would be sent to detention if she wore the skirt again. She said it was the same type of skirt her daughter had worn the previous year, but a size up.  The Year 8 pupil is one of 18 students at the school who were given a detention warning over their uniform on the first day of the new school year on Monday. Tammy said: 'My daughter returned from her first day back in sch...

Safety improvements are to be made to notorious stretches of smart motorway, road chiefs said yesterday. Extra emergency laybys, more warning signs and further road markings will be introduced by National Highways. The agency had commissioned independent studies of a section of the M6 near Birmingham and three stretches of the M1 near Luton, Sheffield and Wakefield.  Safety improvements are to be made to notorious stretches of smart motorway, road chiefs said. Pictured: The scene of a double fatal crash on the M1 Jason Mercer, 44, died on the M1 after he pulled over and a lorry crashed into him on a smart motorway These documented 14 fatal crashes since conversion into smart motorways without a permanent hard shoulder. Jason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died on the M1 after they both pulled over and a lorry crashed into them.  The lack of a hard shoulder contributed to their deaths, a coroner found. Engineers will build an extra emergency refuge on the M1 in South Yorkshire ...

An Ohio judge ordered a hospital to stop treating a COVID-19 patient with horse deworming drug ivermectin, reversing a colleague's earlier decision to allow the treatment, because 'judges are not nurses or doctors'.  Jeffrey Smith, 51, has been in the West Chester Hospital's intensive care unit since mid-July battling COVID-19 and has been on a ventilator for more than 30 days.  After he was placed on a ventilator, his wife, Julie Smith, reached out to Dr. Fred Wagshul - who is listed as a founding physician of Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance and who promotes the horse deworming drug as treatment for the virus - for a prescription, according to The Washington Post. When the doctors refused, Julie Smith took the hospital to court, and after a months-long battle a different Ohio judge ordered that he be administered the treatment. That order lasted 21 days.  On Monday, Butler County Judge Michael A. Oster Jr. reversed the order and told the hospital to cease ad...

Wastewater plants have been told by the government they may dispose of sewage not fully treated due to a shortage of chemicals caused by the lorry driver crisis. Some of the chemicals used in the sewage treatment process have become one of the latest products left in short supply by the driver shortage, caused by a combination of Brexit and the Covid pandemic. Plants were told they may dispose of effluent not fully treated because of disruption caused by 'supply chain failure' in a regulatory position statement issued on Tuesday. Wastewater plants have been told by the government they may dispose of sewage not fully treated due to a shortage of chemicals caused by the lorry driver crisis. Pictured: A Water and sewage treatment station by the Horsham, West Sussex (file photo) The statement came from the Environment Agency, which introduced a waiver that would allow some companies to bypass the third stage in the treatment process if they are not in possession of the right chemic...

More than 50 Britons have been infected with the 'Mu' Covid variant which experts fear blunts the effect of vaccines and is already spreading in all but one US state. Public Health England said it had spotted 53 cases of the mutant strain — which emerged in Colombia — and that it was first detected in Britain in May. Scientists believe that while Mu is more transmissible than the original virus, it does not appear to be infectious enough to outcompete the Delta variant.   Delta was first detected in Britain in late March and had become dominant by May, for comparison.  Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said he believed Delta likely represented 'peak infectiousness' for Covid and would be 'very, very surprised' if Mu or any other strain was even more transmissible. But he warned Mu's vaccine-resistance may make it a future threat, telling MailOnline: 'We may have reached peak infectiousness with the Delta variant but what w...

Sirhan Sirhan, 77, was recommended to be released on parole by a California panel on August 27 after 53 years in prison for murder (Pictured at his parole hearing on August 27)  Robert Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy, 93, released an official statement on Tuesday claiming that her husband's killer Sirhan Sirhan, 77, should not be paroled.  The Kennedy family has been publicly divided since August 27 when a California panel recommended that RFK's assassin Sirhan be granted parole after nearly five decades in prison.   Six of the nine surviving children of the slain New York Senator issued a statement that day announcing that they were 'devastated' by the San Diego panel's ruling.  But two of RFK's children, Douglas Kennedy, 54, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 67, have supported Sirhan's parole.  On Tuesday, widow Ethel released an official statement which read: 'Bobby believed we should work to 'tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the...

A 2012 episode of No Reservations featuring Michael K. Williams and Anthony Bourdain has resurfaced, prompting fans to draw comparisons between the Wire star and travel show host who both battled their demons, and lost.  Williams, 54, died of a suspected overdose at his luxury Brooklyn apartment where he was found on Monday, next to drug paraphernalia. News of Bourdain's death was similarly shocking, after he committed suicide in a hotel room in France in June, 2018.    Both men had highly publicized battles with heroin and suffered from addiction and depression. Yet both were able to achieve greatness in their fields; with Williams putting in unforgettable performances as Omar in The Wire, Albert 'Chalky' White on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and most recently as Montrose Freeman in Lovecraft Country.  Bourdain, similarly, shook the restauranting world with book Kitchen Confidential, about life as a chef in New York's restaurant scene, and went on to travel the worl...