An ultra-sonic device used to disperse rowdy teenagers is Tuesday being challenged by the Children's Commissioner who claims that the high-pitched sound causes discomfort and so infringes upon the human rights of young people.
Much taken by what Alexa Chung – a person I have never heard of – told Deborah Ross in an interview in The Independent Magazine last week. So deep was her love of English at school, she remembered, that she took an extra hour of it every lunch hour, "and when we did Sophocles I was like, wow, Sophocles is amazing".
The children's commissioners for England and Scotland have joined civil liberties campaigners to call for the banning of a device which emits a high-pitched noise specifically designed to disperse young people.