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A boy of seven has become Britain's youngest skydiver after jumping from 9,000ft over Lake Bled while on holiday in Slovenia, reported The Times. Tom Hayes from Cambridgeshire amazed his friends when he returned to school after the holidays and told them he had done a tandem jump with his parents, who are experienced skydivers.

Teachers can identify naughty pupils minutes into their first day ofschool just by looking at the classroom register, according to a surveyby parenting website Bounty reported in the Daily Mail. Researchersfound that teachers said they keep an eye out for children who havenames such as Callum, Chelsea, Connor and Jack because they expect themto be more likely to disrupt the class.

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