TEACHER'S DISMISSAL FOR SEXISM

Matthew Goodweight has an exemplary teaching record, and is well respected by his colleagues and his pupils at his high school in Bolton, Lancashire. Yet on Friday he was dismissed on the grounds of sexism and intolerance. His crime? Getting married to a woman, which in the eyes of the Education Authority is sexist, as he "made a decisive and exclusionist choice", in the words of Education Minister, Hermione Wilson-Pickett.

Ms Wilson-Pickett, herself married to her "partner", School Governor, Andrew Walmsley-King, refused an further interview with reporters.