BBC announce new radio station to hit the airwaves this year

The BBC have announced their plans for a brand new taxpayer-funded radio station to hit the British airwaves.

The station, BBC Radio 0, will broadcast absolutely nothing but dead air 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

And the station's manager, Martin Barron, could not hide his delight after securing a broadcasting permit.

He said: "I am really excited to announce that I will be the manager of a brand new radio station that will broadcast absolutely nothing across the entire country.

"We don't even need a studio, we can just switch on our transmitters and we will broadcasting our format immediately."

Radio 0 will be announcing its broadcast frequencies and official launch in the coming months and plans state they will first carry out test transmissions across London and the South East using the Crystal Palace and Wrotham transmitters before being made nationally available on FM, DAB Digital Radio, Online and via Satellite and Cable TV platforms.

Radio 0 was awarded a 12-year FM radio licence from Ofcom, which is the industry regulator.

Mr Barron has many years experience in radio and masterminded the successful launch of a radio station in his back garden shed which broadcast 24 hour automated Latino Salsa music on an FM signal that traveled no more than 10 meters.

However he claimed that during atmospheric enhancement conditions, his radio station could be heard over his entire street and was regularly listened to by a Peruvian immigrant family down the road, a claim that was never actually proved.

His most recent appointment was managing director of Atlantic 252, which shut down in December 2001 about a week after he took over after changing the radio station to a 24 hour automated format of Tibetan monks throat singing.

The new station has said it will feature no music, no commercials, no DJs and will simply broadcast nothing all day and all night.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry deemed inadequate by Ofsted

Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry has promised to "rapidly improve" the school after a disappointing inspection report.

Ofsted released its report into the magical school over the weekend, rating it as 'inadequate.'

It comes just four years after the school was deemed 'good' by inspectors.

But Ofsted said health and safety was "basically non-existant" since the last inspection.

Although behaviour and safety at the school is described as "good," with pupils described as "welcoming and polite," inspectors flagged up a number of concerns including a lack of fire extinguishers, pupils flying around dangerously on brooms and even a giant snake living in the school's plumbing system that instantly kills anyone who looks at it directly in the eyes, all of which break numerous EU safety directives.

Inspectors visited the school early last month, and their report says: "Over the past two years health and safety laws not being observed have resulted in a number of risks for too many pupils.

An Ofsted spokesman told us: "There wasn't a single fire extinguisher in sight, pupils were even flying around on broomsticks without any regard for their own or others safety. There's even reports of a snake that kills people and giant killer trolls have been known to wander the school's grounds."

"The impact of health and safety has been inadequate because it has not ensured pupils are safe at school."

Although the school's leadership and management has been identified as "requiring improvement" the report says: "Senior leaders recognise they have not acted quickly enough to improve the health and safety,"

The report continues that as a result of the findings the local council has placed the school into a "category of concern."

Office workers to face corporal punishment when they misbehave

LFI Creative, an Internet marketing agency in Aberdeen brought in the system

Punishment is used on 'a minority' of workers with low productivity or who misbehave

Bosses smacking their employees will ‘encourage other workers to work harder’

Around 30 workers out of 100 at the company have been smacked by their bosses

Company brought in these special measures after an 'inadequate' testimonial

A scheme has been introduced at a company where employees with low productivity or misbehaviour can now be ’spanked’ by their employers.

Workers at LFI Creative, an Internet marketing company based in Aberdeen, who misbehave can be called into the board meeting room and spanked in front of their entire department.

There is no limit on its use, allowing employers to spank their employees whenever they feel like it.

The company – LFI Creative in Aberdeen, Scotland – defended the scheme, saying only 30 per cent of its workers had faced corporal punishment.

But industry experts warned some workers might be encouraged to misbehave to gain the punishment, especially if the spanking is administered by a female.

‘This allows workers to get what they would see as a reward for poor behaviour and will be seen as a badge of honour amongst other workers,’ said Peter Johnstone of the Workforce Campaign.

‘It’s a topsy-turvy approach where the workers are in charge of discipline rather than the boss, which would tend to undermine the disciplinary structure. It is an admission of failure by the company – a last, desperate measure.’

The scheme was also bad training for other reasons, Mr Johnstone added, because ‘husbands can’t just spank their wives for burning the toast… oh wait you mean they can?’

According to an insider whenever a worker misbehaves, a public meeting can be called in the board room with the entire department that person works in, the offences of the worker will be read out and the worker could also be forced to read out a public apology before receiving up to 10 strokes of the cane.

The worker’s family may also be invited to attend the meeting to witness the punishment.

Offences can include watching porn on the office computers, smoking outside of the designated smoking areas, arriving late to work and low productivity or customer dissatisfaction. Even petty offences such as leaving the toilet seat up and forgetting to replace the PG Tips tea bags in the kitchen can result in a corporate spanking.

LFI Creative CEO Angus MacDonald added that the scheme was already showing signs of success.

He said: ‘The way we punish workers is reviewed regularly and this is a major step in keeping workers in line.

‘The strategy has been a major key in increasing productivity and encouraging the rest of the office to work harder.’