September 2020 – Page 5 – The Saturn Herald

Dance teacher accused of raping a 15-year-old

Carly Green 24-year-old dance teacher is accused of raping a 15-year-old student, with the youngster spiraling into depression and turning to drink. The unnamed youngster battled mental health issues after Carly Green sexually abused him after he attended her classes in Aston, Pennsylvania. She was arrested and charged last Friday. Green who began teaching her…

Grenfell Fire: Harley Facades were confused by Fire safety rules

The Fire safety guidance for what materials could be used on Grenfell Tower was confusing, according to the director of the cladding company which installed the cladding has told an inquiry which is in its second phase. Ray Bailey, director of Harley Facades said there was “ quite widespread” confusion in the building industry at…

Djokovic disqualified from US Open after hitting line judge

US Open Novak Djokovic disqualified after hitting line judge Top seed Novak Djokovic has been disqualified from his US-Open fourth-round match after accidently hitting a ball at a line judge. Djokovic showed his frustration after losing his serve to trail 6-5 against Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta. 20th seed. The Serbian took a ball out of…

Large crack at Birling Gap

RNLI Coxwain MarK Swayer said the authorities understood it was a beautiful place with stunning views, but a large crack at Birling Gap, the south coast near Eastbourne, has led to fresh warnings to people to keep away from dangerous cliff edges as the cliffs were crumbling and could fall at anythime. Mr Sawyer said…

Magical tales of Mythical Beasts

The power of picture books presents cornucopia of beasts from myth and legend, including Cerberus, Fenrir and the Thunderbird. From the West African fable of Anansi the Spider to Michabo, the magical hare who rebuilt the world and Tanuki, the sweet troublesome raccoon-dog of Japanese folklore, the tales are wonderfully bizarre and often gruesome.…

Challenging Appalchia

“Nothing’ll ever fix what’s broken in this town, but it would be nice if they’d at least get the dead bear out of the parking lot at Food Country”. “ The Holiday Inn Express on Richland Skyway seemed like as a good place as any for `Margaret Price to maybe, possibly, stick her finger up…

Burning books to destroy record of people’s past and their right to be present

Unter den Linden crowd of 40, 000 chanted and cheered as books by Jews, homosexuals and communists were burned under bonfire on 10th May 1933. And six decades later Serbian forces on 25th August 1992, bombarded shells down with precision on Sarajevo’s National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bombs were incendiaries designed…

Cognitive ability has become the gold standard of human esteem

Too many very clever people who are not very collaborative, in a room together could block the prospects with their love for complexity and conflict. What they have in their brainpower, lack in empathy. In our meritocracy IQ is valued much more highly than EQ (Emotional intelligence) or most physical ability. Political analyst David Goodhart…

Weed fallen on the back of a drone

Activists seeking to legalise cannabis in Israel dropped via a drone several hundreds of packets of the drug in Tel Aviv after they promised free marijuana on social media. Passers-by managed to collect a few of the bags before police arrived according to the Maariv News website. The footage showed people walking through busy traffic…

35lbs (16kg) gold bars seized from a Dubai-bound passenger by HMRC

Eight ingot to be auctioned by HMRC

Eight gold bars seized from a passenger attempting to smuggle the treasures onto a flight by hiding them in a lunchbox are set to be auctioned on Thursday. The ingots weighed 35lbs (16kg) worth £75t0, 000- was seized in November 2018 at Manchester Airport by HMTRC officers. The airline passenger did not face prosecution…