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Free breakfast clubs are set to launch at 750 schools across England next week as teachers expressed concerns that Government funding behind the flagship scheme will fall short of the cost. Thousands of parents will be able to access 30 minutes of morning childcare from Tuesday as part of a trial beginning at the start of the new term and running to July, ahead of an expected national rollout. Education […]

Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London days after a Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Trans rights groups, trade unions and community organisations came together for what was billed as an “emergency demonstration” in Parliament Square. Activists demanded “trans liberation” and “trans rights now”, with some waving flags and holding banners. In a long-awaited judgment delivered on Wednesday, the UK’s highest court confirmed the […]

Three quarters of UK manufacturing and logistics firms are bracing for a hit from US tariffs. Larger businesses are more likely to be expecting a squeeze from new global trade policy, according to a survey carried out by HSBC UK. US President Donald Trump unveiled plans earlier this month to hike tariffs and introduce new levies on all goods being imported. This included a baseline 10% tariff for most countries, […]

Urgent action has been called for to tackle what a trade union has termed the “growing workload crisis” for teachers in Northern Ireland. The Nasuwt has contended that teachers are working beyond their contracted hours and placing their mental health in jeopardy. Union members are set to introduce a motion to this effect at their annual conference in Liverpool. The motion praises the Think1265 campaign, which highlights information to teachers […]

Social media influencers such as Andrew Tate are fuelling an increase in misogyny and sexism in schools. Nearly three in five (59%) teachers said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils’ behaviour in schools, according to a poll by the NASUWT teaching union. The survey, of more than 5,800 NASUWT members in the UK in January, suggests that teachers think social media is the number […]

More than a third (35%) of Gen-Z adults aged 18 to 21 worry about their finances every day. But only a fifth (20%) of young adults said they would be interested in learning about debt management, the survey for Santander UK found. Just over nine in 10 (93%) of young people surveyed said they worry about money generally. Less than a third (30%) of young adults surveyed said they had […]

A cat hit by a train survived after having his leg and tail amputated. Rescue cat Hector, aged two, was so badly injured that vets feared he would need to be euthanised, after he was hit by a train near Fairlie station in North Ayrshire. Hector dragged himself 250 yards uphill to get back home, and hauled himself over the garden fence before being found by owner Sharon Joyce and […]

Police Scotland has said it will review its policies on transgender issues following a Supreme Court judgment on the legal definition of a woman. In September, Police Scotland reversed a policy which allowed rapists to identify as female and a review was announced, to be provided to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA). Following an SPA meeting in February, Police Scotland confirmed it was reviewing its Transitioning at Work policy based […]

A British woman has died in a cable car crash near Naples, according to an Italian official. The Briton and an Israeli woman were among four people who died in the crash after a cable snapped on Thursday at Monte Faito in the town of Castellammare di Stabia, a spokesperson for the mayor of Vico Equense said. A fifth person, believed to be a foreign tourist, was seriously injured during the incident. […]