Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman tells schools not to give pupils extended summer break

Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman tells schools not to give pupils extended summer break with up to 100 days holiday, warning they will be ill-prepared for exams Ms Spielman said she is keen for schools to explain how they use summer term  GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled this year in favour of teacher assessments  But schools … Read more

RHS tells British gardeners to let their lawns get scorched this summer to avoid wasting water

Brown is the new green! RHS tells British gardeners to let their lawns get scorched this summer to avoid wasting water and protect the environment British gardeners are being urged to let their lawns turn brown during dry spells Royal Horticultural Society wants people to save water and help environment It comes after the UK … Read more

Prince Harry tells trauama therapist of his fears about visiting UK

Prince Harry has revealed he becomes ‘tense and update’ whenever he visits Britain, during a therapy session filmed on camera in which he said: ‘London is a trigger.’ The Duke of Sussex said in his new mental health documentary series with Oprah Winfrey that he has ‘always felt worried’ for most of his life when … Read more

Prince Harry tells trauama therapist of his fears about visiting UK

Prince Harry has revealed he becomes ‘tense and update’ whenever he visits Britain, during a therapy session filmed on camera in which he said: ‘London is a trigger.’ The Duke of Sussex said in his new mental health documentary series with Oprah Winfrey that he has ‘always felt worried’ for most of his life when … Read more

Prince Harry tells Oprah Winfrey he took alcohol and drugs to cope with his mother’s death

Harry says he took alcohol and drugs to cope with mother’s death and would drink a week’s worth of booze on a Friday night to ‘feel less like he was feeling’ Prince Harry was 12 when Diana, Princess of Wales, died in 1997 in a car crash In Apple TV’s The Me You Can’t See, … Read more

Boris Johnson tells Tory MPs he wants to SCRAP the one-metre-plus rule in pubs on June 21

Boris Johnson has told Conservative MPs the ‘one-metre plus’ rule for social distancing is still set to be scrapped in June.  The Prime Minister said eliminating the measure was the ‘single biggest difference’ the government could bring about in order to get Britain’s pubs back into action, and he was eager for the rule to … Read more

Boris Johnson tells Tory MPs he wants to SCRAP the one-metre-plus rule in pubs on June 21

Boris Johnson has told Conservative MPs the ‘one-metre plus’ rule for social distancing is still set to be scrapped in June.  The Prime Minister said eliminating the measure was the ‘single biggest difference’ the government could bring about in order to get Britain’s pubs back into action, and he was eager for the rule to … Read more

Biden tells Netanyahu he expects ‘significant de-escalation TODAY on path to ceasefire’ in Gaza

President Biden demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scale back attacks on Gaza during a phone call Wednesday, urging him to begin moves toward a ceasefire.  It marks a shift from Biden’s public position of support for Israel’s right to defend itself from Hamas rocket attacks and follows another night of strikes against targets in … Read more