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Half of secondary pupils have avoided school in the past year because of anxiety, a poll has found. A survey of 2,000 UK secondary students found 49.5% said they had missed school or avoided school because of feeling anxious at some point last academic year The majority said this had happened less than once a month (22%). However, 5.5% of all pupils surveyed said this happened once a week, 6.7% […]

Shoppers increasingly turned to “alternative” ways to pay in 2024, such as buy now pay later methods, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). Its annual payments report found that alternative payments, which include buy now pay later (BNPL) schemes, accounted for 3.8% of transactions in 2023, rising to 4.1% in 2024. The report suggested that interest rates charged on credit cards could be pushing some consumers towards other payment […]

The UK’s economy contracted for the second month running in October, defying expectations for a rebound as car manufacturing only made a slight recovery from the Jaguar Land Recovery cyber attack The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.1% in October, following a 0.1% decline in September. Most economists had been expecting a rise of 0.1% for October on hopes of a manufacturing bounceback led […]

A £20,000 reward is being offered to help find the killer of a grandmother found dead in her home. Rose Johnston, 68, was found with a blunt-force head injury at her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on Saturday October 4, just after 12.30pm. On Friday, Merseyside Police announced a £20,000 reward, offered by independent charity Crimestoppers, for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the murder. Detective Chief Inspector […]

Three men have been jailed for life after an an innocent grandfather was shot through his living room window in a murder which was caught on a doorbell camera. Children were playing in Elm Street, Stanley, County Durham, when popular Barry Dawson, 60, was fatally shot at teatime on Saturday April 5 this year. Ringleader Sean Reay, 30, and associates Kelvin Lawson, 38, and Thomas Sterling, 22, were convicted following […]