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He said in a statement on Wednesday that the cook's complaints to the school headmistress about the contaminated cooking oil were ignored.

Though strikingly handsome, there is something of the headmistress about her, an hauteur in her features, and with her height she dwarves everyone in shot.

Yes, the portions are too large, the surroundings are the sort of varnished pine that you can forgive only in the Alps, and the staff can have a little too much of the headmistress about them.

Forced to purchase hastily a similar-looking vole online, at replaceyourdeadclassvole.com, we returned it only after having given it a thorough Martin Guerre-schoolingooling in the exact details of its supposed former life, should it ever be grilled by my son's suspicious headmistress about its changed shoe size.

Headmistresses of about 200 private girls' schools have agreed not to help turn around failing state schools by becoming academy sponsors.

Mrs Noye's Gossips were originally to be performed by girls from a Suffolk school, but when the headmistress heard rumours about the "dissolute" parts they were to play, she withdrew her pupils.

Years later her mother told her that the headmistress had grumbled about having to restock the library - luckily with the flowers of children's literature: Puffin Books edited by Kaye Webb.

As my former headmistress would caution us about petty silliness over a boy, "Girls, please, he's not worth you making yourselves out to be fools".

The school has never been confronted by gangs, said Headmistress Barbara Wagner, but students talk about them and parents worry about them.

Amhurst the school was called, and Miss Watson, who was its headmistress, explained how the name had come about, told how the school had been the seat of a landed family, how outbuildings had been transformed into music rooms and laboratories, art rooms and the weaving room, only the classroom blocks being a new addition.

Correction: June 17 , 2004 Thursday An obituary on Tuesday about Joan Stitt McMenamin, former headmistress of the Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan, misstated the day of her death and referred incorrectly to one survivor.