D Tuesday, January 19, 2010 News Students cant Handel noise Sooty saves fire family in blaze A SCHOOL has found a way to calm noisy troublemakers classical music. Numbers of disruptive pupils have fallen 60 per cent after they endured music by Verdi, Mozart and Handel. Students at West Park School in Derby, UK, reflect in silence as they listen to an hour of the classics every Friday. SOOTY the cat saved a sleeping family from a fire in their home. The six-month-old Bombay cat smelled smoke and scratched wildly at a bedroom door at the home in Birmingham, UK. Shes definitely a lucky cat for us, said 53-year-old Michael Lineham. A model presents a creation by Chinese designer Guo Pei at Hong Kong Fashion Week for autumn/winter 2010 Picture: Reuters Hole in the sole Record number of organs helped save lives of others By Colm KelpieORGAN donations were up a fifth in 2009, mark- ing a record year, new figures show. Some 270 organs were obtained from 90 people across the State, including hearts, lungs, livers and kidneys. Kidney transplants reached a new record with 172 procedures carried out up 11 per cent on 2008, according to the National Organ Procure- ment Service. David Hickey, of the Organ Procurement Office at Dublins Beaumont Hospital, paid tribute to the families who supported the donation of their loved ones organs. Organ donation is an extremely sensitive and emotionally difficult situation, especially for rela- tives of the donor, Mr Hickey said. But many speak afterwards of the consolation they feel in giving permission for donation to occur and how this permission can give some sense to an otherwise meaningless death. Such gratitude can only materialise if relatives also feel that their grief has been respected through- out the donation and transplant process and they have not been pressured to give consent. Last years donations included 17 hearts, up sev- en from 2008, 13 lungs, up four from 2008, and 68 livers, up nine from the previous year. Dr Liam Plant, consultant nephrologist with Cork University Hospital and director of the HSE Na- tional Renal Office, praised Beaumont Hospital on its kidney transplant success. Youth broke gardas hand A TEENAGER who fractured a gardas hand and broke his tooth while resisting arrest for dangerous driving has received a suspended sentence. Judge Patricia Ryan heard Garda Robert Collins and his colleague pursued Leo Malone, 18, of Drumfinn Avenue, Ballyfermot, who was driving a stolen car. He left the car at Lucan and kicked and punched Gda Collins as he tried to escape. The judge considered Malones tender age at the time of the offence and his guilty plea when sentencing. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html