Six-year-old girl runs up £900 bill on iPad pony game
A Cheshire mother is warning parents about the dangers of free download games after her six-year-old daughter ran up a £900 bill on her iPad
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Manchester leads the way in graphene membrane research
University of Manchester graphene researchers have been awarded a £3.5m funding boost that could bring desalination plants, safer food packaging and enhanced disease detection closer to reality.
Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the research focuses on membranes that could provide solutions to worldwide problems; from stopping power stations releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, to detecting the chemical signals produced by agricultural pests.
Wonder material graphene was first isolated in 2004 at The University of Manchester by Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov. Their work earned them the 2010 Nobel prize for Physics.
Graphene is the world’s thinnest, strongest and most conductive material, and has the potential to revolutionise a huge number of diverse applications; from smartphones and ultrafast broadband to drug delivery and computer chips.
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Girl runs up £900 bill in a 'My Little Pony' game on her mother's iPad
A six-year-old has run up a 900 pound bill playing games on her mum's iPad.
Grace Walker from Northwich was able to buy "virtual" gems on a My Little Pony game at almost £70 a time without needing her mother's iTunes password. Now her mum Catherine is warning other parents of the dangers.
Gregg Easteal reports.
Six-year-old girl runs up £900 bill on iPad pony game
by Gregg Easteal
A Cheshire mother is warning parents about the dangers of free download games after her six-year-old daughter ran up a £900 bill on her iPad
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