26 years ago

Saying sorry seems to be a very hard lesson to learn

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Doug McAvoy, facing a left-wing challenge to his leadership of the National Union of Teachers, put the boot in by calling on Mr Woodhead to go "not on personal grounds, but because he has not supported schools or teachers". Former colleagues whose spiritual home is evidently Salem in one of its less tolerant phases, claim that Mr Woodhead emphasised the sexual content of literature to pupils when they were studying the works of John Donne and D H Lawrence. Now she has produced lawyer's letters, pre-dating Mr Woodhead's account of when he began seeing Ms Johnston, which also register his proposal that they live in a menage a trois. Cathy Woodhead's friend, the actor Tony Robinson, has also said that he was aware of Mr Woodhead's involvement with a pupil in the spring before he left school.

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