A crew member on board the International Space Station has gone missing – a fly-eating female spider.

The astronauts are scoring the station after the bug escaped from her living quarters on the flight out. Read the rest of this entry »

A twelve-year old boy has died after spraying himself with too much deodorant.

Daniel Hurley was found in the bathroom by his father, Robert, after he inhaled too much Lynx Vice, where the solvents in it caused an abnormal heartbeat. Read the rest of this entry »

A teenager has banned from school after she dyed her blonde hair brown.

Jodie Brown, 14, has been told that her hair counts as ‘two-tone’ as her natural colour grows back – and is against school rules. Read the rest of this entry »

Thousands of Kids in Northern Ireland are making history by sitting Northern Ireland’s last ever 11 plus exam.

The test has been used for more than 60 years to help whether students go to grammar school or not. Read the rest of this entry »

Back in July, Termtime reported on companies selling rip off ringtones to unsuspecting teenagers, and it seems this week the issue has scaled new heights.

Children in England and Wales are set to be given lessons in how to avoid scams and hidden charges when downloading ringtones. Read the rest of this entry »

A wannabe gangster aged 13 was found with a handgun – and ammunition inside a sock, a court heard yesterday.

The boy, thought to be the youngest person arrested in Britain for possessing a weapon, was looking after the Russian automatic pistol in the hope of winning ‘promotion’ through the crime ranks. Read the rest of this entry »

England manager Fabio Capello steered his team to another victory last night despite being without a number of his key players.

England beat Germany 2-1 in a friendly at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin with goals from captain John Terry and Michael Upson. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been off the air for two years and mourned over by influential musicians, managers and even politicians, but now it seems as if Top Of The Pops will make a long awaited return to British TV screens.

Despite the BBC making earlier promises it would not be brought back, TOTP is set to return over the Christmas period. Read the rest of this entry »

Youths at a school in East London are being given the opportunity to swap roles with members of the police, by allowing the teenagers to arrest and search officers, to experience what it is like from the ‘other side’.

Sergeant Colin Geddes said that many of the teenage participants had never considered the perspective of the police. “This makes them think about the way they behave. We find it really helps calm things down on the street” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

Astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost her tool kit whilst repairing part of a space station, 200 miles above the Earth.

The lead spacewalker was repairing a 10ft wide rotary joint, which positions the space stations solar panel wings towards the sun for power, when one of the grease guns she was using leaked all over her glove. Read the rest of this entry »