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tawse

, taws Chiefly Scot
a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher
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|David Tawse, 24, was jailed after he got a 14-year-old girl he met on Facebook pregnant.
From fraudsters to killers: those locked up in 2017; FROM a scam in which turkey was passed off as lamb meat, to the brutal murder of a grandmother, Teesside has seen a mixed bag of crime throughout this year. Here James Cain rounds up some of the criminals who were put behind bars in the first half of 2017
Since the tawse was abolished in Scottish schools, we have seen generations of feral children growing up into ill mannered and loutish thugs.
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Craig Campbell's double, a Zander Sutherland strike and Richard Tawse own goal compounded Fort's misery.
Boss blast gets Jags out a hole; HIGHLAND LEAGUE
Unlike school days, teenage boys and girls didn't get caned or belted with a tawse strap.
Great memories of that college
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Nicholas Tawse, 45, from Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary and was jailed for three years and two months.
Gang jailed for swiping PS80k of steel
Grace Campbell took a private case to court in a bid to get Strathclyde Regional education authority to guarantee her 11-year-old son would not be beaten with the tawse, a leather strap used to beat the palm of the hand.
School beatings are caned
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