A travel agent has been sacked for making an insulting remark about a colleague on Facebook.

The employee, from Coventry, claimed her colleague was bullying her.

She was sacked by the TUI Travel call centre after one of her Facebook friends alerted the firm to her posting on the internet.

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Some parents have been turned down for all three of their preferred school choices after more parents in South Buckinghamshire applied for places in Cookham.

Some parents are planning to appeal while others are considering schools further afield or calling for extra classrooms to be added to the most popular schools.

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A number of schools have asked parents to monitor their teenagers' behaviour on social networking websites like Facebook and Bebo after an increasing number of complaints.

Counsellors at some schools are having to start their week sorting out issues after pupils have received abuse on the internet and by text message over the weekend.

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More than 900 pupils took part in the survey and reported that physical bullying and being left out was a problem for younger children while older people had possessions stolen from them or lies told about them.

The survey was carried out in 145 primary schools across the province.

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The charity claims that 70 per cent of teenage mothers are not in education, employment or training and are facing a life of poverty and disadvantage.

It also said that young mums were more likely to face bullying and to truant from school.

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Some are getting as little as four hours sleep a night because they're watching TV, surfing the internet or playing on games consoles in their rooms.

Charity Sleep Scotland says that teenagers should aim for nine hours a night and that getting more rest can improve academic performance.

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Former teacher Samantha Barson plans to hand the petition about Rose Hill Primary School to officials from Oxfordshire's education department.

She also wants a meeting with the head teacher and governors to discuss the problem.

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President Hamid Karzai has pleaded with Taliban groups to stop their attacks which numbered 600 in 2009, according to the United Nations.

There are 13,500 schools in operation in Afghanistan, attended by eight million pupils, 40 per cent of whom are girls.

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The students have spoken about their own experiences at the hand of bullies to help make things easier for other young people.

And now the group, Jordan Sadler, Connor Vaughan, Alicia Coxon, Declan Taylor, Lohais Ali, Daniel Alcock and Hailey Forster, has been nominated for a Young Achievers Award.

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The youngsters, at Oldfield Primary School, Greenford, have been working on a friendship project and deciding when teasing goes too far.

Each class has been working on ways of being a good friend and has drawn up special posters in a Be a Buddy not a Bully project.

"This is a great idea," said Bullying UK CEO John Carnell. "Lots of bullying starts off in a small way and recognising that it can get out of hand is the first and most important step towards stopping it."

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Google Buzz is a real time social network that is being automatically added to ALL Google Mail accounts over the next few days.

Bullying UK is concerned that younger users may not be aware of the privacy implications of Google Buzz.

Buzz is a lot like Facebook or Twitter, people can become your friend and you can become theirs, you have a Google Profile that many people would have created years ago but may have forgotten about, leaving the information "public". This includes photographs, Twitter, Facebook and even news stories you have shared..... all open to the world.

When Buzz is added onto your Gmail account all that "Profile" information is brought into Buzz and shared with anyone you have made a friends connection with. You may have to reconfirm your Twitter and Flickr address but your Google Reader and...]]> John Carnell Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:28:33 +0000