The credit crunch is hitting everyone at the moment, but if you’re going to steal from your employers, buying a patio for your garden probably wouldn’t be top of the list for many…
A deputy head teacher who stole thousands of pounds from a special needs school to buy a new patio for his garden and give himself a payrise has been struck off the teaching register.
Simon Hann, 42, conspired with head teacher Keith Davis, 51, to plunder £70,000 from Sundridge School near Portsmouth, over a period of four years.
The pair …

As a young journalist working on a business magazine, I once interviewed a company director who went back to work six weeks after giving birth to her baby. It was a family run business and she had the nanny and housekeeper anyway, but I thought she was amazing!
Roll on almost a decade later, a soon-to-be-four-year-old son of my own, and seven months pregnant and it’s not unusual to hear stories about mums who go back to work earlier than the six months/year maternity leave that the majority of women take. …

We’ve had an influx of emails asking about how to apply for flexible working recently.
It can be a daunting process, but as long as you do your reasearch, you should be fine - remember, the law requires that your employer takes your request seriously, and they rather than you need to show the business case for declining your application, or they’re breaking the law.

How to apply
You need to make your application in writing at least
two weeks before your child’s sixth birthday (18th birthday if your child’s disabled) – but as …

Courteney Cox has confirmed she is ready to tackle IVF again or begin the adoption process in a determined bid to have a second child with husband David Arquette this year.
The Friends star told Metro that providing a brother or sister to her four-year daughter Coco is very much in her plans in the next 12-months despite her past struggles with IVF treatment.
‘I can’t imagine life without having a child, I don’t even remember what life was like four years ago.’
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A woman who did not realise she was pregnant died after haemorrhaging when she went into labour at home.
Elizabeth Tevenan was taken to hospital by paramedics who had responded to a report of a cardiac arrest.
But they apparently failed to establish that she had given birth and the baby was left behind.
The infant’s body was discovered more than an hour later when police were sent back to the four-bedroom property where Miss Tevenan lived with her parents.
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