Lesbian UK teacher jailed for sex with 15 year old pupil

October 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Blokes looking for a "lesbian city" in Sweden should now turn their heads towards Australia, for the town of Alice Springs is being promoted as the lesbian gem of the country. Phil Walcott from Gay and Lesbian Tourism Australia said that Alice Springs is the lesbian capital of the nation because of its high per-capita residency, according to the Northern Territory News.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Scotland Yard has advertised for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender police to guard the Queen. According to the Daily Express, the Metropolitan Police wants officers from "special groups" to -volunteer for armed duty at Windsor Castle and Balmoral.

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - After a 12-year-old boy recently turned up dressed as a girl at a school in South London, a 9-year-old boy did the same the next day making parents extremely worried. The child apparently came to school dressed in female uniform, with long hair in a ponytail, tied in pink ribbon.

August 19th, 2009 LONDON - A music teacher in Britain has confessed that she had a lesbian relationship with a teenage pupil. Helen Goddard, who is called Jazz Lady by her students, could now face a 14-year prison sentence for it.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit teacher allegedly groomed a 13-year-old girl on an Internet chatroom before having sex with her. A court heard on August 13 that science master Matthew Knott, 24, who taught physics and chemistry lessons at Elton High School in Bury, Lancs, swapped emails with the girl, even though she was not a pupil of the school.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - The best teachers are enthusiastic, inspiring, innovative and indeed in a class of their own. These are the latest findings of research funded in primary and secondary schools by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) into what makes good teachers even better.

June 25th, 2009 HONG KONG - A Hong Kong language tutor was Thursday facing jail after being convicted of using threats to force a 14-year-old girl pupil into having sex with him. Gary Siu Cheuk-ming, 27, lured the girl who attended his private Japanese lessons to a meeting in a hostel after claiming he could get modelling work for her and filmed her naked.

June 16th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A primary school teacher reportedly forced four pupils aged between eight and 10 to perform oral sex on him and made them pose for pictures. According to reports in Sin Chew Daily, the incidents occurred in the staff restroom in a boarding school in Bintulu, Sarawak, between May 14 and 19.

May 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A teacher in New York was put behind bars and charged with rape, sexual abuse and child endangerment after she was allegedly caught having sex with a 14-year-old student in the classroom. It was the student's mother who tracked the teacher named 27-year-old Melissa Weber down.

May 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Kelly McGillis, who played Tom Cruise's love interest in the hit movie 'Top Gun', has finally confessed that she is gay. Thesun.co.uk reports that the twice divorced mother of two, who filmed a raunchy lesbian sex scene for 2000 movie 'The Monkey's Mask', finally 'came out' on a US gay website.

March 19th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Eva Longoria Parker has revealed that she hated kissing co-star Teri Hatcher in a forthcoming 'Desperate Housewives' episode because she did not like getting close to anyone on screen. In an interview for British TV show This Morning, the 34-year-old star revealed that she had reservations about the scene.

March 17th, 2009 LONDON - 'Desperate Housewives' stars Teri Hatcher and Eva Longoria Parker will set TV screens on fire with a steamy lesbian kiss in an upcoming episode to be telecasted on April 15. In the episode, Susan (Hatcher) tells Gabrielle (Longoria) that her art teacher Jessie (Swoosie Kurtz) kissed her after misinterpreting Susan's kindness, reports the Sun.

March 14th, 2009 LONDON - A 9-year-old Brit boy has become the youngest pupil to get a grade A in A Level maths, after he scored the highest in the exams. Zohaib Ahmed, who is in primary school and a big Liverpool fan, took his first exam at a sixth form college the day before his ninth birthday last January, and was very excited with the results.

January 21st, 2009 LONDON - British pop star Lily Allen admits that she regularly has lesbian fantasies. Allen also said that she had once enjoyed a three-way lesbian escapade and that too with twins, reports the thesun.co.uk.

January 10th, 2009 LONDON - Stress associated with studies and school is driving droves of teenagers to smoke and drink. The study carried out by Pamela Taylor, psychologist at Salford Local Authority, looked at the stressors and coping strategies of 172 children aged 15 and 16 years facing their GCSE examinations.