Staff absences mean some pupils face return to remote learning, amid doubts over advice to combine classes Coronavirus – latest updates School leaders in England are warning of weeks of disruption owing to high levels of staff Covid absences, which could lead to children being sent home to learn remotely. […]
Leader will accuse PM of treating politics like ‘a branch of the entertainment industry’ in speech Keir Starmer will launch his plan to maintain the momentum of Labour’s poll lead in the runup to the next election, accusing Boris Johnson of losing voters’ trust due to numerous sleaze scandals and […]
Request for problem to be taken more seriously comes as data shows sixfold rise in visits to incel forums The man who gunned down seven people, killing five, in a rampage in Plymouth is being lionised by an online “incel” community, with some ironically venerating him as a “saint” and […]
Exclusive: Labour party research also finds black children at least twice as likely to grow up poor as white children More than half of black children in the UK are now growing up in poverty, a new analysis of official data has revealed. Black children are also now more than […]
Former senior officer says unsolved hack of MoD training school systems did not succeed but still had costs A cyber-attack on the UK’s Defence Academy caused “significant” damage, a retired high-ranking officer has revealed. Air Marshal Edward Stringer, who left the armed forces in August, told Sky News the attack, […]
Robert Etheridge, aka DJ Dimension, apologises for ‘my misunderstandings’ in breaking isolation rules and visiting Auckland venues before testing Covid-positive Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A British DJ who triggered New Zealand’s first Omicron scare after breaking home isolation rules will not be prosecuted for the […]
Kenyan conservationist found oldest near-complete human skeleton in 1984, dating from 1.5m years ago The celebrated Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter Richard Leakey, whose groundbreaking discoveries helped prove that humankind evolved in Africa, has died aged 77. The president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, announced Leakey’s death with “deep sorrow”. Continue […]
Jonathan Powell says PM and Brexit ministers risking fragile peace in Northern Ireland and ‘don’t seem to care’ One of the architects of the Northern Ireland peace deal has said Boris Johnson and the former Brexit minister Lord Frost have risked “all the work” the previous generation of politicians put […]
Advice to secondary schools issued amid concerns over new term spike in Covid cases and Keir Starmer calls for more test kits Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage All pupils in secondary schools in England should return to wearing masks in classrooms, ministers said last night, as […]
Offer could be on table in upcoming trade talks in Delhi in bid to access to country’s growing economy Ministers are keen to ease immigration restrictions in a bid to make it easier for thousands of Indian citizens to live and work in the UK as part of forthcoming trade […]