London, Sep 19 : A criminal damage worth just 1pence has cost the UK government 1,000 pounds.

The Crown Prosecution Service charged a 15-year-old boy after he owned up to ripping the handles off a plastic bag, worth 1p, belonging to a 13-year-old girl.

Following the charge, prosecutors are being accused of wasting taxpayers’ cash.

The girl's parents called police who passed a file to the CPS, and the case is believed to have cost 1,000 pounds.

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London, Sept 19 : A school in Hartford, UK, has set a record of sorts by having 20 sets of twins on its roll.
 
And the Grange School, which achieved that distinction when four new pairs enrolled this month, says it has so much experience teaching twins that it now specialises in looking after them.
 
Having 20 pairs of twins means that one in 28 students of the 1,140-strong school is a twin.
 

Matt Ridley, the low-profile chairman of Northern Rock, broke off his stillness on Tuesday to blame unprecedented market situations for the bank’s troubles, and to show commonness with his stressed

London, Sept.19: Murderers and rapists, who are still serving jail sentences, are being allowed to drive on roads in Britain under an open prison scheme.

According to The Daily Mail, over 200 inmates, including 33 killers, have been granted permission to drive themselves to and from open prisons to paid jobs in the community.

London, Sept.19: Scoring a duck in a cricket match would not merit much attention, but in England skipper Paul Collingwood’s case, it resulted in the media being all over him because his early dismissal against South Africa in a Twenty20 World Cup match was blamed on a visit to a strip club.

The 31-year-old father of one admitted that he went to a lap-dancing club in Cape Town in the early hours of Saturday morning. In less than 24 hours he was out for a duck against South Africa, reports The Daily Mail.