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THE tragic moment a schoolgirl, 14, stabbed two teachers and a fellow pupil has been shown in court.

Teachers Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, were knifed alongside another girl on April 24 earlier this year at Amman Valley School, in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.

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The moment a scuffle between the teachers and the defendant breaks out was captured on CCTV[/caption]

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The teen is spotted talking to Ms Elias and Ms Hopkin outside right before launching the attack[/caption]

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staff members Steven Hagget and Darrel Campbell tried to calm the girl down[/caption]

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Moments before the horror, chilling footage shows the defendant stabbing the floor with a knife[/caption]

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Mrs Hopkin, 53, who works with special needs students, was stabbed four times.

While drama and Welsh teacher Ms Elias, who is head of year, was rushed to hospital after being knifed in the neck.

Jurors at Swansea Crown Court were shown shocking CCTV footage of the 14-year-old defendant with the knife.

The schoolgirl appeared in court today as the video was played.

It showed her launching an attack on Ms Elias while Ms Hopkin bravely tries to hold her back, before she is stabbed in the neck.

The defendant, who can’t be named for legal reasons, then wounded another student before staff members manage to restrain her.

An edited version of the CCTV footage was released by the Crown Prosecution service.

It shows the defendant scuffling with the teachers right before and after she attacks them.

In the lead up to the horror, the schoolgirl walks into the lower school hall where she sits behind a curtain next to a stage for around half an hour.

Here cameras capture her using the knife to stab the floor – the same weapon used in the attack.

She later returns to the hall to join her friends before Ms Elias comes in and tells her to leave as she did not have permission to be in there.

The girl goes into the corridor to continue talking to Ms Elias, following her around before returning to the hall.

She then reveals the knife to other pupils and shared a can of drink with a boy before walking outside after Ms Elias.

Initially she walks past the teacher, who was speaking to Ms Hopkin, before turning around and talking to the pair.

For around two minutes she holds conversation, with her hands in her pockets, before pulling the knife out.

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Fiona Elias was one of the teachers stabbed in the frenzy[/caption]

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Liz Hopkin works as a special needs teacher at the school[/caption]

She attacked Ms Elias at about 11.17am, and Ms Hopkin tried to restrain her before being stabbed in the leg.

While Ms Elias managed to flee, Ms Hopkin was knifed once in the neck and then in the back.

The teacher scrambled away and fellow staff members Steven Hagget and Darrel Campbell tried to calm the teen down.

But she then approached another group of pupils, shouted at a girl and ran towards her before striking her with the knife.

Mr Campbell can then be seen restraining the girl.

The defendant previously accepted charged of wounding with intent and possession of a bladed article on school premises, but denied attempted murder.

Prosecutor William Hughes KS previously told the court how Ms Hopkin suffered the most brutal injuries after being stabbed in her neck, knee, lower leg, chest and under her shoulder blade.

She was flown to Cardiff by air ambulance.

Meanwhile, Mrs Elias and the pupil were transported to hospital in Swansea, where they were also treated for stab wounds.

All three victims have now been discharged from hospital after suffering non life-threatening injuries.

The trial continues on Monday.

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A teen girl charged over a stabbing at a school in Wales has appeared in court[/caption]

BACK when young punk Toyah Willcox was putting safety pins through her nose, her Strictly dance partner Neil Jones was still wearing them in his nappies.

But despite the age gap, this 66-year-old rocker isn’t about to do an Ann Widdecombe and get dragged round the stage by her pro dancer — she’s attacking every routine.

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Toyah Wilcox thinks the Strictly audience doesn’t know her history as the ‘warrior queen’ of punk rock[/caption]

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There was some controversy online last week when viewers claimed the judges had saved Toyah in the dance-off[/caption]

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Toyah sports a wild orange hairdo at Drury Lane Theatre in London’s West End on Christmas Eve, 1981[/caption]

Toyah is determined to shatter the stereotypes about older people held by quite a few of her ­younger ­counterparts — starting on last week’s Strictly when she saw off 24-year-old Tom Dean.

She said: “Everyone was ­completely shocked. Tom is an Olympian, but when it comes to a dance-off I’m going to give my best against anyone.

“They look at a tiny little 66-year-old who is either the same age as their mother or their granny — I fully understand that to young people I’m incredibly old, but I don’t behave like that.

“I also like that some younger ­people might not know who I am, because they might not know how strong I am.

“They don’t know my history, and my history is pretty good as a ­performer.”

‘Do whatever you want’

There was some controversy online last week when viewers claimed the judges had saved Toyah in the dance-off just to “level out” the genders as there are just six female celebrities taking part compared to nine men.

But Toyah brushed off the claims, saying the real reason she was saved was because she performed well doing the jive, which is one of the trickiest dances on the show.

Although she’s the favourite to get kicked off this weekend, Toyah isn’t about to go down without a fight.

She said: “When young people see me ­perhaps there is going to be ridicule — but that gives me a fabulous position to prove them wrong.”

Toyah, best known for her anthem It’s A Mystery, was a bona fide movie star and singer back in the early Seventies and early Eighties.

Along with a handful of other female performers at the time, she blazed a trail for women with her punk rock look and attitude.

And she points towards a particularly poignant moment in 1981 when she performed in Drury Lane with an incredible shock of bright orange hair and dragon make-up.

The costume team had done their research on me. They still treat me like a rock chick too which is really lovely — and I just say, ‘Do whatever you want with me’.

Toyah said: “It was powerful, it was so ahead of its time for a woman to look like that when you consider most of the world were idolising ­Farrah Fawcett and Olivia Newton-John.

“There I was like a warrior woman. I think I was another side of ­femininity — I wanted to be strong and a woman of independence.”

Unlike with so many other contestants on Strictly, the costume department know there aren’t many wild looks they can throw at Toyah which are likely to shock her.

Which is perhaps why, when she dances tonight as part of the annual Movie Week, she’ll be dressed as Ursula the sea witch from The Little Mermaid, dancing to Poor Unfortunate Souls.

Toyah said: “The costume team had done their research on me. They still treat me like a rock chick too which is really lovely — and I just say, ‘Do whatever you want with me’.

“They think it’s open season and I appreciate that. But I’d like to see them try to make me look ladylike!

Toyah admits she had no desire to live the life of a lady in the heady days of punk, particularly when she was starting out and forced to sleep in a second-hand coffin because she didn’t have a bed.

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Toyah, front, in 1978 film Jubilee with, from left, punk legend Jordan, Jenny Runacre, Hermine Demoriane and Nell Campbell[/caption]

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Back then, the lifestyle was all about ­adopting an unconventional approach and rebelling. She had a lisp, is dyslexic, got bullied at school and left with a single O-level, and was keen to turn a page on her past.

That made her more determined to succeed — and she went on to have eight top ten singles, bagging a Best British Female Artist nomination at the 1982 Brit Awards.

Music also helped her find love, in the form of King Crimson ­guitarist Robert Fripp, who has worked with everyone from David Bowie to Blondie.

The couple have been married since 1986 — and in 2021, Toyah caused a sensation when she wore a wafer-thin top with no bra while singing with Robert during a live-streamed performance.

So will Strictly ever embrace her heritage with outfits and a performance that reflects her punk past?

She teases: “If I get through this week, the dance I will do next Saturday I have been waiting to do — it’s going to have visuals that are utterly outrageous. I can’t wait.” As well as modelling for Vivienne Westwood, Toyah’s early experiences include hanging out with music royalty, including her time filming Quadrophenia in 1979.

The cult Brit flick had an incredible line-up including an up-and-coming star called Sting, who’d just quit being a teacher to pursue a career with his band, The Police.

‘Sailing ship in a storm’

Toyah said: “Sting was so sweet. We were all in the same hotel when we were shooting in Brighton.

“Myself and another actress would meet with Sting in his ­bedroom and he’d be teaching us the backing vocals to Roxanne.

“He’s always been outstandingly beautiful, physically, but his ego at that time did not reflect that.

“He found it quite hard to be the [film’s] pompous bell boy then. I adored him, and I was close to him for almost 15 years after that.” Is she conscious of how many women would kill to be invited to Sting’s hotel room every night?

What Strictly has that is very punk is that, under a lot of pressure, it delivers one of the BBC’s flagship programmes — and it is live, so anything could happen.

“I was a punk rocker,” she said. “I just didn’t even think about it.”

As part of the Quadrophenia cast, Toyah was asked to help punk legend John Lydon rehearse for his screen test as the central character of mod Jimmy Cooper.

The role eventually went to Phil Daniels, but Toyah got to make a friend of the Sex Pistol — and he turned out not to be rotten at all.

She recalls: “Johnny was surprisingly lovely, an absolute gentleman.

“I first met him at his apartment just off the King’s Road.

“I arrived at ten in the morning, went into the living room, and there were members of the Sex Pistols unconscious on the floor.

“We had to step over them and went into the kitchen to rehearse. So we ran the scene and he knew all his lines already.

“The biggest problem was that no one would finance the film with him in it. But it turned out to be a blessing because Phil ­Daniels gave an award-worthy performance.”

But Toyah insists she won’t just be bringing some of her punk ethos to the show, because Strictly already has a similar attitude.

She said: “What Strictly has that is very punk is that, under a lot of pressure, it delivers one of the BBC’s flagship programmes — and it is live, so anything could happen.

“But the team is incredible, because all of us are sailing a ship that is in a storm from 6.20pm to 8pm — and it’s about survival at that point.”

Here’s hoping she survives this weekend so we can see that sensational punk routine next Saturday.

•  Strictly Come Dancing is on BBC One tonight at 6.25pm.

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Rehearsing with her Strictly dance partner Neil Jones[/caption]

A COUPLE who was left with broken bones and steep hospital bills after an Uber crash has learned they can’t sue the company because of a pizza delivery.

Georgia and John McGinty were raced to the hospital after their Uber driver ran a red light and was T-boned by oncoming traffic on March 31, 2022.

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The horrific accident left Georgia with several fractures throughout her body and internal injuries that needed surgery.

She had to get several invasive surgeries, and it took her a year to get back to her job as a matrimonial attorney.

John, meanwhile, has limited mobility in his left wrist and had to heal from a fractured sternum after the crash.

One year after the crash, John and Georgia sued the company in an effort to get a payout for their “serious physical, psychological, and financial damages,” the lawsuit states.

However, a New Jersey court ruled late last month that the McGintys had no right to sue Uber because of a terms and service agreement signed by their then-12-year-old daughter.

Georgia and John waived their right to a trial when their daughter said she was 18 while ordering a pizza from Uber Eats on her mom’s phone.

The couple said they were packing for a ski trip, and asked the little girl to make the order while they organized their belongings.

The split-second decision meant the couple agreed they couldn’t sue Uber in case they were in a car accident involving an Uber driver.

While the couple plans to appeal the court’s decision, Uber feels their case is airtight.

In a statement, the tech company claimed Georgia agreed to Uber’s terms multiple times, not just when her daughter ordered pizza while they were packing for a ski trip.

Uber also blasted the pair for allegedly saying in court that they couldn’t guarantee the girl made the order without her mother’s assistance, a spokesperson told CNN.

Other companies have benefitted from piling legal agreements in lengthy terms and conditions consumers will almost never read.

In October 2023, a woman died after eating at a Disney World restaurant and having an allergic reaction.

Her family filed a wrongful death suit, but the media company pointed out the family had waived their rights by agreeing to terms and conditions for a Disney+ subscription.

However, Disney allowed the case to go to court and did not try and get it dismissed.

The McGintys said they were “horrified” by Uber’s decision to side with “contractual language buried in a dozen-page-long user agreement concerning services unrelated to the one that caused the consumers’ injuries,” CNN reported.

Their attorney, Mike Shapiro, said siding with terms that waive rights could create a “slippery slope” for consumers.

“Uber has just been extremely underhanded in their willingness to open the same cabinets that they’re forcing the McGintys to open up and have to peek around in,” he told NPR.

“It’s unfortunate that that’s the way that they’re carrying on their business, because this is truly something that subjects millions and millions of Americans and people all over the world to a waiver of their hard-fought rights.”

But despite the setback, they aren’t standing down and want their case to fight for others who have been blindsided by terms agreements.

“I think we need as a society to move to try to protect consumers,” Georgia told NBC’s TODAY.

BRITTANY Mahomes posted a cryptic message to her Instagram Story.

Amid tensions with her best friend, Taylor Swift, Mahomes posted the message for her fans to view.

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Mahomes and Swift got tied up in a political beef after the two sides endorsed different candidates for the upcoming presidential election.

Patrick Mahomes‘ wife previously shared her support for republican candidate Donald Trump.

On the other hand, Swift publicly shared her endorsement of democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Many thought these opposing ideologies could cause a fracture in the two’s relationship.

On Thursday, Mahomes took to her Instagram Story to share a quote from another account.

“Be the reason why people believe in beautiful souls, kind hearts, and good energy,” the message read.

“Never stop being a good person.”

It appears despite the cryptic messages and opposite political views, Swift and Mahomes are still friends.

It would be hard for them to dislike each other while their significant others are best friends.

Also, the two were seen at the US Open after Mahomes’ political views were revealed, and the two appeared to be having a blast.

Swift later made her post endorsing Harris, which got 11 million likes.

That post also reportedly led to over 330,000 visits to Vote.gov, a voter registration site that Swift linked to the post.

Trump wasn’t very happy with Harris securing Swift’s endorsement, and shared his displeasure with a simple post on his Truth Social account.

“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” he wrote.

Trump also later claimed he likes Mahomes much better than Swift during a Fox News appearance.

“I actually like Mrs. Mahomes much better if you want to know the truth. She is a big Trump fan. I was not a Taylor Swift fan,” he said.

While Brittany has shared her stance on the upcoming election, Patrick has shared that he won’t endorse a candidate this year.

“I don’t want my place and my platform to be used to endorse a candidate or do whatever, either way,” he said.

“I think my place is to inform people to get registered to vote. It is to inform people to do their own research and then make their best decision for them and their family.

“Every time I’m on this stage and I get asked these questions, I’m going to refer back to that because I think that’s what makes America so great.”

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