The Queen’s moving home! Grade I-listed Belvoir Castle has lost its starring role in Netflix series The Crown in a row over money By Jo Macfarlane and Amy Oliver for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:54 BST, 5 September 2020 | Updated: 08:17 BST, 6 September 2020 It has already lost £2.5 million after being … Read more
The Queen’s moving home! Grade I-listed Belvoir Castle has lost its starring role in Netflix series The Crown in a row over money By Jo Macfarlane and Amy Oliver for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:54 BST, 5 September 2020 | Updated: 08:17 BST, 6 September 2020 It has already lost £2.5 million after being … Read more
A-level fiasco has thrown university plans for many into chaos, but here are student bank accounts with perks that make the grade By Toby Walne, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 29 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 29 August 2020 The recent A-level fiasco has thrown the plans of half a million students … Read more
Universities minister Michelle Donelan wrote to vice-chancellors requesting their flexibility around admissions and asking them to honour all offers accepted The Government is asking universities to prioritise students from disadvantaged backgrounds for admission ‘where possible’ following the U-turn on A-level grades – meaning Middle-Class pupils may be forced to take gap years. Universities minister Michelle … Read more
This has reset the bar for incompetence: The exams grade scandal leaves us wondering how pupils will ever feel they can trust the system again, writes former Education Secretary DAVID BLUNKETT By David Blunkett For The Daily Mail Published: 22:47 BST, 17 August 2020 | Updated: 22:48 BST, 17 August 2020 The U-turn on A-level … Read more
Grade II-listed French pub in London’s Soho lifts 100-year ban on pints to reduce contact between staff and customers amid coronavirus crisis The French House in Soho, London, has only served half pints of beer Distancing rules mean there’s room for one bartender, where there’s usually five The French House has counted Francis Bacon and … Read more
Not allowing pupils the right to appeal GCSE or A-Level exam grades they think are unfair has been likened to imposing a ‘life sentence’. Students in England will receive their grades next week. They will be assessed using a statistical model after the pandemic halted the exam season. Ofqual, the exam regulator, is only allowing … Read more
Inside Jack Whitehall’s 32nd birthday party: Comedian whisks girlfriend Roxy Horner and pals to Grade II listed manor house for ‘£10k three-day bash’ By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 23:56 BST, 10 July 2020 | Updated: 01:04 BST, 11 July 2020 Jack Whitehall whisked girlfriend Roxy Horner and some pals to celebrate his 32nd birthday … Read more
Grade II-listed pub goes up in flames just hours after landlord posted mysterious Facebook message saying ‘you don’t want to miss this’ North Yorkshire police responded to concerns for safety of man on roof of a pub Arrived at Old Swan Inn at Gargrave and noticed a fire had started inside North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue … Read more
A new model has grouped countries into ‘clusters’ depending on how they did over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Researchers from Australia and China found that when the response against the virus first began in January, China was in its own cluster, split from the rest of the world. However, as cases spread around … Read more