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JULIE Scott got a phone call from the school in Weston-super-Mare attended by her daughter Emily, aged nine, saying that the girl had cut her finger. Would she please come to the school, bringing a sticking plaster. Teachers wanted Emily's mother to apply the sticking plaster because under new health and safety rules they were not allowed to do it for pupils in case any of them were allergic to latex. Experts said later they had never heard of severe reaction to a sticking plaster. The Sun, March 11, 2006.
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IN March 2006 the TV production The Chatterley Affair sparked memories of the sensational 1960 Old Bailey trial when Penguin Books was unsuccessfully prosecuted for publishing D.H.Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. Mervyn Griffith-Jones, for the prosecution, famously asked the jury if the story of Lady Chatterley's steamy affair with her gamekeeper was something 'you would wish your wife or your servants to read?' The Independent (March 18, 2006) reported that Griffith-Jones once explained how he decided for himself if a book was obscene: 'I put my feet up on the desk and start reading. If I get an erection, we prosecute.'
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