London - The Bank of England (BoE) Thursday

London, Dec 4 : More than 34 percent adolescents are under major pressure to have sex during Christmas, according to a new British poll.

The poll, conducted on 1000 adolescents, also revealed that 68 percent of adolescents are under pressure to drink alcohol.

Despite the statistics, two-third of parents tend to believe that only other people kids tend to have sex.

The survey was conducted as apart of Time to Talk campaign, which aims at encouraging more and more parents to openly talk to their children about these issues.

London, Dec 4 : A group of female court workers in London have been suspended for passing an email featuring a girl licking a ‘willy shaped lolly’.

Sumiti Badhan, 28, who processes fines at Richmond Magistrates’ Court in South-West London, was suspended after the cheeky email was passed.

Besides three others Badhan is currently waiting to hear if she has kept her job after a disciplinary hearing a fortnight ago.

The matter came to surface after Badhan’s bosses investigated her computer for evidence about who she had sent the photo to and later came to know that about five other girls on the email circuit working at other courts.

London - The chief of Spanish airline Iberia was Thursday reported to have demanded an "urgent meeting" with his British Airways' counterpart over BA's rival merger talks with Australia's Qantas airline.

The Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph said that Fernado Conte, President of Iberia, believed that it would be "too complex" for BA to pursue merger aspirations with both Iberia and Qantas, and that he was prepared to urge BA to choose between the two.

London, Dec 4 : Newly released memos and tape recordings from President Richard Nixon’s archives show that he wanted to “decimate” North Vietnam and viewed university professors as “enemies”.

The tapes were recorded between November and December 1972, shortly after his re-election and just as the Watergate scandal began to unfold.