Posts by Richard Shears

Australian teacher sues for £500,000 because her larynx was damaged by ‘shouting at rowdy children’

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Her voice was damaged, she says, during her attempts to shout over the noise in her classroom as she tried to control the pupils, aged around 11.

Woman who discovered she was pregnant while having scans for Alzheimer’s now doesn’t recognise her newborn daughter

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Rebecca Doig is thought to be one of the youngest sufferers in the world and the first woman to give birth at such an advanced stage in the disease.

Mother goes to court to stop her daughter calling her new stepmother ‘Mum’

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The Adelaide mother, who cannot be named, told the Family Court that her ex-husband was deliberately undermining her role as their child’s mother.

Australia’s controversial, anti-migrant MP heading for Britain… as an immigrant

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

The former leader of the One Nation Party said she wanted ‘peace’ and ‘contentment’, and that Australia held no more appeal as it was no longer the land of opportunity.

The ‘junkies’ addicted to their mobile phones

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

They have become a part of everyday life, especially for youngsters who barely know what life was like without them.