At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...'

She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking.

As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.