The UK Police are accused of exaggerating the drop in crime figures out today - with 400,000 crimes not even recorded. Crimes in England and Wales fell by 33 per cent according to police despite the Office for National Statistics (ONS) recording a fall of 17 per cent. The ONS said the "rate of reduction" in recorded crime "may over-state" the decrease. ONS statistician John Flatley said bigger falls in the cops’ figures could be down to pressures to meet crime targets.

Meanwhile, another major problem has been identified. as gamblers in Britain’s most deprived town are staking £72MILLION on betting machines a year. The staggering total is gambled in 69 terminals at 19 bookies in Rochdale, Gtr Manchester. Over £1million is staked on each “fixed odds betting machine” a year — £2,858 a day, or £119 an HOUR. Punters in London, Glasgow and Liverpool gamble away £2.74BILLION on 1,973 of the terminals.

The recruitment process of teachers should well be queried as a Religious Education teacher has been banned from the classroom after telling pupils that sex was good and not to get married so they could sleep around. Catherine Reynolds also SWORE at pupils while working at Saddleworth School in Oldham, Greater Manchester, - and showed them her tattoos. She also informed pupils she travelled to Amsterdam and talked of a SEX SHOW involving an animal. Reynolds also called mums and dads after a parents' evening "retarded". She was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by a disciplinary panel and has been banned from teaching by education secretary Michael Gove for FIVE years.

Meanwhile, in Spain, STUDENTS and teachers have held a protest outside an Axarquia school after a member of staff was assaulted by the father of one of the pupils. The incident occurred when a student at IES Reyes Catolicos school in Velez Malaga called her father after she was told off for being late. When he arrived at the school, the man entered the classroom and assaulted the teacher by grabbing his head and pushing him to the ground.