24 Thursday October 24 2013 | the times News Hall chargedwith 15 more child

Stuart Hall, the former ing acareful review, we broadcaster, has been have decided that there is charged with the historic sufficient evidence to pros- rapes of two girls. ecute Stuart Hall ...May I Hall, 83, is serving a remind all concerned that 30-month jail term for sex- Mr Hall has aright to afair ually abusing 13 victims, trial. It is very important one as young as 9, over a that nothing is said, or period of nearly 20 years. reported, which could prej- The latest claims involve udice that trial. For these 16 alleged offences. Hall is reasons, it would be inap- accused of seven counts propriate for me to com- of one girl aged ment further.” between 14 and 16, from Hall, from , 1976 to 1978. He faces afur- , was taken from ther eight charges of rape prison yesterday and ques- and one of indecent tioned by detectives from assault against agirl aged Constabulary. between 11 or 12 and 15, On Tuesday, it was con- from 1976 to 1981. firmed the former It’s a Hall will appear at Pres- Knockout presenter had ton Magistrates’ Court on been stripped of his OBE November 8. for broadcasting and char- , the chief ity in the wake of his con- crown prosecutor for CPS viction for sex offences North West, said: “Follow- against children. School told teacher nottospeak Polish

Anursery school teacher brought arace discrimina- who was banned from tion claim, Mr Todd, a speaking Polish at work retired police officer sent has won a£7,000 payout. her “intimidating” letters. Barbara Jurga, 56, said Apanel at Watford that Lisa Howes, her depu- employment tribunal ty head, branded her found the school guilty of native tongue “one of race discrimination, harass- those weird languages”. ment and victimisation. Mrs Jurga said some The school agreed to pay children in her class were Mrs Jurga £7,000 in com- Polish, and their parents pensation for injury to feel- spoke to her in Polish, ask- ings. Mrs Jurga, of Burnt ing her to help their child- Oak, northwest London, ren by using Polish when settled in Britain in 1991 necessary. However, Ms and joined the school in Howes banned Mrs Jurga January 2009. from speaking Polish, even Ms Howes told the tribu- to colleagues on her break. nal she considered it “rude Mrs Jurga complained and exclusionary” for staff to Nuala and Neil Todd, to speak to each other in owners of Lavendale Mon- Polish, but Mrs Jurga insist- tessori nursery school in ed it was a“fundamental Woodside Park, north right” of staff to use their London. When she quit preferred language away her job in 2012 and from the classroom. Scientists find gold in eucalyptustrees

Bill Condie Melbourne see the gold particles in the leaves was quite aeureka Gold is growing in trees in moment.” Australia, with some The news appeared ini- eucalyptus specimens tially to be of little use to sucking up the metal in prospectors, as the gold their search for moisture, traces measure only one- according to geoscientists. fifth the diameter of a The discovery was made human hair. Dr Lintern near Kalgoorlie, Western said the yield from 500 Australia, with the scien- trees would be enough tists using X-ray imaging gold for only one wedding to detect gold particles in ring.However, he added: the leaves, twigs and bark “If explorers are able to of the trees. sample the trees, in place “They appear to be bring- of drilling, then they’re ing up gold from aremark- going to save money.” able 30 metres (100ft) Nigel Radford, amining depth, which is about the geochemist, said that the equivalent of aten-storey implications were exciting. building,” Melvyn Lintern, “The identification of the of the Commonwealth gold particles in the leaf Scientific and Industrial materials is very, very Research Organisation, important for the future of said. “We weren’t expect- mineral exploration,” he ing this at all. To actually said.