British teacher dies on first day of school ski trip

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A British teacher has died on the first day of a week-long school ski trip after falling off a four meter high stone wall after a trip to a pub and landing on his head. Austrian police said Jonathan Taylor, 44, an IT teacher at the Christ the King School in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, had been […]

School boy encouraged to jump over fire

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 A boy has ended up in hospital after his teacher encouraged him to jump over a fire whilst on a school trip. What began as a light-hearted solstice celebration ended with the 15-year-old being severely injured. The teacher from Rudolf-Steiner school in Vienna, Austria, reportedly encouraged Jakob to leap over a fire leaving him so […]

Lower fine for policeman who beat teacher in mix-up

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A court decided to lower a fine issued against a policeman who seriously injured an African-American teacher after mistaking him for a drug dealer. The unidentified police officer was ordered to pay 2,800 Euros in a court in Vienna last January over the incident which occurred in an underground station in the city in February […]

Hiker injured by heifer

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An Upper Austrian woman had to be hospitalised after she was attacked by a cow yesterday (Sun).The woman from Obergrünburg was hiking in the Kalkalpen national park with her husband when the animal attacked her. The 54-year-old teacher sustained a flesh wound on her left thigh. She was airlifted to a hospital in Steyr.One day […]

Teacher runs 782 km in seven days

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A teacher has set a new ultra running record by covering nearly 800 kilometres (km) in a week.Secondary modern school teacher Franz Sack from Frauenkirchen in Burgenland ran 782 kilometres on a one-kilometre circular course in his hometown during the past seven days. Sack said ahead of the challenge that he wanted to cover more […]

Another coming out of transsexual teacher

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Austria has seen a second case of a once male teacher set to return after the summer holidays to school as a woman.Viennese polytechnic college professor Walter S. infuriated some parents and colleagues by revealing last week he has undergone a sex change surgery recently. The federal education ministry however gave the green lights for […]