Mobile phones 'offensive weapons'
 

*Source: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e.../6241108.stm)*
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A teaching union is calling for mobile phones to be classed as potentially offensive weapons.

NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said the way pupils misused them to bully their teachers meant they should be banned from school premises.

She has sent evidence of more than 100 cases of teachers being abused and bullied by phone, e-mail and online.

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