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Ms King said staff felt "very bruised and battered" by some of the findings and the first reaction of some teachers had been to question Ofsted.

Watching their bloodied, bruised heroes emerge from whatever piles of flaming wreckage they’ve wrought amid so much forced merriment has a way of boosting our morale out of the humbug doldrums.

A paramedic who examined Ms Hand on the day after the alleged attacks said she had not seen a patient as bruised as Ms Hand was in a long time.

In the back are fruits and veggies that no longer look perfect: mushy papayas, wilting spinach and bruised tomatoes.

"I didn't fully know what had happened. I felt enormous pain in both my legs; they were bruised and grazed," the 77-year-old former home secretary and health secretary wrote in the Sun on Sunday.