Five-year-old children facing school sinbins over bad behaviour

"Unruly children as young as five face being taught in "education sin bins" under Government plans to stop pupils becoming out of control. Increasing numbers of primary pupils will be temporarily removed from normal classes and sent to special units to tackle bad...

Gibraltar to cull Barbary apes that terrorise tourists

I visited Gibraltar when I was about 7. The only thing I remember from the visit is the apes. Gibraltar is famous for their apes. There is a theory that if the apes were to ever leave Gibraltar, then the territory...

Tim Hortons Goes BioHazard

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Two things that are a sign of the times, Tim Hortons Donuts, long touted for it's coffee and donuts and family atmosphere, a National Institution by some, now has to be...

UK: Recycling material 'being dumped as landfill'

What a waste, sorting out paper, plastics and glass into separate containers at home, then council lorries collecting the recyclable rubbish on alternate weeks and then dumping the sorted materials in landfill sites...

Trash Talking: Don't Put your Junk in that Trunk

In Vancouver every garbage bin is overflowing and the last place to dump your junk is in the public bins.  But in New York City the opposite is true and lawmakers are trying to discourage the dumping of junk in...

The 250,000 families with a spy in the bins

The first official trials of pay-as-you-throw rubbish technology have started, paving the way for wheelie bin taxes.

Chef chops up the fish in a grubby alley

As food preparation areas go, it is hardly the height of hygiene. A chef stands between some bins, chopping up a large chunk of tuna balanced precariously on top of polystyrene and cardboard packaging. "As food preparation areas go, it is hardly the height of hygiene. A...

Baby in the X-ray Machine at LAX

"On Saturday a 56-year-old woman was unloading her valuables into the plastic bins at security in the LA Airport and apparently thought she should include her month-old grandson in the screening process. A screener...

Fine for letter in recycling bag

A man was fined £200 after court found him guilty of putting paper in a recycling sack for bottles and cans only - breaking local city council rules...

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