A clinically vulnerable mother has been threatened with a three-month prison sentence and a £2,500 fine because she refused to send her children back to school amid coronavirus. Katy Simpson, 29, chose to keep her son Damien and daughter Alisha, both six, at their home in Redcar when schools returned last month. She told teachers at Galileo … Read more
Underwater ROBOTS help scientists answer the age-old question of why fish ‘school’ – showing they can save up to 13 per cent more energy by synchronising their movements Researchers built swimming robotic fish to investigate the purpose of schooling Found the synchronisation of fish in schools saves energy for each individual The fish make use … Read more
Samantha Price, head of Benenden School, used the term during a speech on Black History Month to show how language around black people had changed Parents have backed the headmistress of a £40,000-a-year Kent girls’ boarding school after students demanded she apologise for using the word ‘negro’ in a school assembly. Samantha Price, head of … Read more
Samantha Price, head of Benenden School, used the term during a speech on Black History Month to show how language around black people had changed Parents have backed the headmistress of a £40,000-a-year Kent girls’ boarding school after students demanded she apologise for using the word ‘negro’ in a school assembly. Samantha Price, head of … Read more
Are the Tories again the ‘nasty party’, as critics of the Government’s refusal to extend provision for free school lunches over this week’s half-term and the Christmas holidays contend? Or is No 10 being perfectly reasonable, having provided extra welfare giveaways during the pandemic of some £9billion? Are the Tories being wrongly depicted as mean-minded … Read more
Are the Tories again the ‘nasty party’, as critics of the Government’s refusal to extend provision for free school lunches over this week’s half-term and the Christmas holidays contend? Or is No 10 being perfectly reasonable, having provided extra welfare giveaways during the pandemic of some £9billion? Are the Tories being wrongly depicted as mean-minded … Read more
Ed Sheeran has donated £200k to the school he met his now-wife Cherry Seaborn. The crooner, 29, met Cherry, 28, at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham, Suffolk, where he had the hots for his co-ed. Cherry then went to America to attend Duke University in Durham, North Carolina where she studied molecular biology, with the pair reuniting later … Read more
Malcolm Tucker, No 10’s brutal chief adviser in the TV satire The Thick Of It, would no doubt have a colourful word to describe the way the Government has handled the Marcus Rashford/free school meals debacle. But this is a family newspaper, so let’s just call it a complete and utter disaster. An embarrassing own … Read more
Malcolm Tucker, No 10’s brutal chief adviser in the TV satire The Thick Of It, would no doubt have a colourful word to describe the way the Government has handled the Marcus Rashford/free school meals debacle. But this is a family newspaper, so let’s just call it a complete and utter disaster. An embarrassing own … Read more
Tory MPs today threatened to join a fresh Labour bid to force a government U-turn on free school meals amid warnings Boris Johnson has ‘misunderstood the public mood’. The PM is facing the prospect of a major revolt unless he thinks again on the refusal to extend free school meals over the holidays – as a … Read more