Councillor Eileen Kinnear, we salute you.

This Tory councillor is getting a lot of attention lately. No-one can be certain whether she wears glasses or not. Can you spot them?

5:38:44 PM    

According to my local newspaper (published by Midlands Weekly Media Ltd - apparently no web site for the newspaper) local children have been using mobile phones to photograph teachers, then manipulating the photos to place teachers in compromising situations. In one case cited "a pupil had mocked up a picture on his phone using high tech software to doctor the photo so it looked as if a teacher was hitting a pupil". A local head-teacher is reported saying that having been made aware of this issue he had stamped on it.

This looks like turning into another occupational hazard for teachers. Camera-phones aren't going away, and they will get ever smaller with better quality cameras. You can already get tiny cameras that connect by wire to phones, so photos can be taken discretely without having to hold the phone up.

The newspaper had the usual awful local-paper-headline: "Phone-y snaps snare teachers."

5:32:55 PM