Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
School miss in pupil sex case to wed
Record boss thought Oasis were Nazis
A WOMAN teacher accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolboy appeared in court yesterday just six weeks before her wedding.
Monica Young, 23, who plans to marry her longtime fiance, is accused of 10 offences including sexual intercourse with the teenage pupil.
The boy has alleged that he was sexually assaulted both on and off school property, including in the teacher’s car, over the course of a month.
Her fiance has revealed the couple have been in a relationship for six years and were childhood sweethearts in Sydney, Australia.
Young was remanded in custody at Parramatta Bail Court in the west of the city, and will appear in court again tomorrow.
Daisy on dog walk
Daisy, Daisy, give us your answer, do!
Model Daisy Lowe was spotted wearing what looks suspiciously like an engagement ring as she walked her dog this week.
The 31-year-old former Strictly contestant was seen cuddling up to musician friend Christian Langdon last month, just weeks after splitting from boyfriend Jack Penate.
She was out in London wearing just a shirt and tights, so if the skirt got forgotten, ring protocol might have too.
Daisy is said to have split from Doctor Who star Matt Smith back in 2011 when she brought up the idea of getting hitched.
A spokesman for Daisy denied she was engaged.
THE record boss who gave Oasis their big break almost didn’t sign them up – because he believed they were Nazis.
Alan McGee was put off the band after seeing a Union Jack in their rehearsal room. He thought it meant they were far-right thugs.
When a pal jokingly confirmed they were fascists, the Creation
Records chief was ready to snub them. But the 1993 misunderstanding was cleared up
– and the Britpop band went on to sell more than 75 million records, including hits such as
Wonderwall and Cigarettes and Alcohol. Alan, 59, said in an interview for a new book that, before he’d met Oasis, he went to Manchester to see a friend called Debbie at her band’s rehearsal room.
“I was looking around and I saw this Union Jack painted on the wall. I said, ‘Who’s this?’,” said Alan.
“Debbie said, ‘oh, it’s a band, Oasis, we share with’. I was like, ‘Oh, are they fascist?’ Debbie’s a f ***** g little rat sometimes and went, ‘yeah’.”
But Noel didn’t laugh. He said: “McGee thought the Union Jack was ‘National Front’. To us it was The Jam and The Who, a pop art Mod thing.”
It’s not the first time Noel, 53, has been wrongly been branded a fascist. He said people called him a “Nazi” after he blasted Remoaners over Brexit. And in 1997 Noel thought it was a ‘Reich laugh’ to scrawl a Hitler tache on a Margaret Thatcher photo at a
Tony Blair bash in Downing Street.