14 h. ago Showing Adolescence in schools could be 'catastrophic': Victim support organisation warns that 'knee

Jaime Shrive and psychologist Dr Jessica Taylor have urged Labour to U-turn on the decision, warning that to plough ahead risked 'triggering' children and 're-exposing them to trauma'.

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30 h. ago Schoolgirl gets £27,000 payout after her leg was seriously injured on ride at UK theme park

Formal legal proceedings were sparked but the dispute took three years to be settled, the 16-year-old's solicitors said.

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39 h. ago Stirling's high schools to be given 'final say' on whether pupils will be shown Netflix series Adolescence

Stirling Council has confirmed that the decision on whether to show high school pupils the new mini-series will be left to schools after the streaming service made it available to classrooms

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61 h. ago 'Adolescence' gets support from British leader as the series will show in schools across the country

The makers of hit Netflix show “Adolescence” have sparked a conversation on how to protect children from violent misogyny and other harmful content on social media

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6 d. ago Adolescence star you barely saw on screen is set for super stardom: Fans go wild for 14

The Sheffield actress, 14, stars in the hit Netflix series, playing schoolgirl Katie Leonard who is brutally murdered by classmate Jamie (Owen Cooper).

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7 d. ago How BJF Group grew from local leader to British success story

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8 d. ago Celebrity photographer Rankin takes school day portraits for ill children at Great Ormond Street

Rankin has given seriously ill children a sense of normality after taking traditional school day photos

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8 d. ago Celebrity photographer captures ‘milestone’ school day photo for Gosh children

Rankin has given seriously ill children a sense of normality after taking traditional school day photos.

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1 week ago Teachers are 'out of their depth' over secret emojis code: Warning over 'rife' toxic culture ravaging schools as sinister messages revealed in Netflix's Adolescence

Former deputy head Amit Kalley said a 'hell of a lot more' needs to be done to support parents and teachers after Netflix drama Adolescence sparked a national conversation.

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1 week ago 'I ditched best pal's wedding after she sent me spreadsheet with £700 fee'

A woman was initially 'beyond excited and honoured' when her best friend from her schooldays asked her to be her bridesmaid, but things took a seriously 'awkward' turn when the bride presented her with a pricey 'bridesmaid package'

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2 w. ago Starmer backs calls for Netflix’s Adolescence to be shown in schools

Sir Keir Starmer has backed calls for Netflix series Adolescence to be shown in Britain’s parliament and in schools.

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2 w. ago Stephen Graham's dyslexia with wife playing secret supportive role

Adolescence actor Stephen Graham's wife has been a huge support in his acting career. She even helps him learn his lines for projects

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2 w. ago Adolescence star Stephen Graham gushes over 'rock' wife for her support amid Netflix drama

Stephen Graham's wife Hannah Walters is also impressing critics in the industry for her acting and executive producer roles, such as her work on historical drama A Thousand Blows

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2 w. ago ‘I feel conflicted when I see navy recruits’: Spiro Bolos’s best phone picture

One afternoon, as he passed a train station bench in Chicago, the street photographer spotted young men in uniform On his way to work at a north Chicago public high school, Spiro Bolos has been making a photo series of people on this train station bench. On the way to visit his partner one Sunday afternoon, he saw these young men. The US navy’s largest training camp is about an hour away; home to the force’s only boot camp and 20,000 sailors, marines, soldiers and Department of Defense civilians.Bolos thinks these men had been given a weekend pass to visit the city. He says they were looking at their phones and preparing their backpacks when he took this shot. As one stood up to stretch, Bolos captured their image. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Teacher 'abused' pupil and sent sexual photos during school holidays

Judith Evans was jailed for two years for a series of sexual offences against a schoolboy

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2 w. ago The play that changed my life: how a pratfall in a student fringe farce made James Graham a playwright

Performing in Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist during A-levels was a lesson in low-art laughs and political anger that unites an audienceIt was 1999. I was doing A-levels in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, the former mining community I depict in my TV series Sherwood. My comprehensive school was one of the biggest in the country, one of a very small number with a working theatre. I wouldn’t be doing what I get to do now without that massive bit of luck.I started doing loads of acting, and the department decided to do the first A-level drama they’d ever done because there were about a dozen of us who wanted to keep going after GCSEs.As told to Lindesay IrvineJames Graham’s adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff is on tour until 5 July Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Rivals of Amziah King review – Matthew McConaughey returns with unwieldy misstep

SXSW film festival: The Oscar winner’s first film role for six years shows his undeniable magnetism but squanders it on a baggy mix of tones and genresIn the past six years, the Academy award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, the reigning prince of Austin, Texas, has kept busy. He raised his three kids in the city, written and released a bestselling memoir on “easy-livin’” (“because life is a verb”), taught in the film department at the University of Texas at Austin, pleaded for gun control at the White House after the horrific school shooting in his home town of Uvalde and “seriously considered” running for governor of Texas. But he has not acted on screen – relegating his last two film roles, underwhelming romps in Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum and Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, to the distant memory of a pre-pandemic 2019. With the end of the 2010s, the energy of the McConnaissance went elsewhere.That is, until Monday, when McConaughey returned to red carpet promotional duties fo...

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3 w. ago Three young girls arrested after series of two assaults at a school and a college

Two of the girls, aged 13 and 14, have been charged with robbery, blackmail and assault

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3 w. ago Three young girls arrested after series of assaults at a school and a college

Two of the girls, aged 13 and 14, have been charged with robbery, blackmail and assault

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