A school was labelled on Google Maps as "Hell on Earth" in what is believed to have been a joke by a pupil. Hornsea School and Language College in East Yorkshire appeared on the website labelled as "Hornsea Prison & Hell on Earth".Clicking through to its main page the correct title "Hornsea School and Language College" then came up. It is thought a pupil submitted the name change to the search engine and it was accepted. The school issued a statement saying the unauthorised listing had since been removed.
New plan to make bus travel free for everyone under 30 launched Place names can be suggested to Google by anyone but must be verified by the business owner, to ensure they are the only ones who can edit them. The entry has since been changed and the school said the identity of the person responsible for the prank was known. In a statement headteacher, Steve Ostler said their energies were focused on their students "and putting ourselves on the map by providing the best educational opportunities for them."He added: "We recommend that all schools take ownership of their Google map icon to prevent any copy-cat behaviours."Hornsea School and Language College is a secondary comprehensive founded in 1958 and takes pupils from Hornsea and the surrounding area.