20 h. ago The boy who smiled for the first time at school after getting on a bike in pioneering scheme

”Incredible” response to novel project to introduce children with support needs to cycling

Politics

63 h. ago Boy, 10, killed in knife and pepper spray attack at Russian school with fellow pupil arrested

At least one person was killed and another injured in the second such attack this week in Russia

Events

3 d. ago Girl left giggling over pensioners' brutal reactions to Christmas carol singing

A young girl has shared the hilarious reactions she overheard when she and her school visited a care home to sing Christmas carols, with some elderly residents giving brutally honest feedback

Politics

3 d. ago Girl visiting care home to sing Christmas carols left giggling over their reactions

A girl told her mum that when she went Christmas carolling at a care home, some of the residents were less than impressed with the performance they put on for the elderly

Politics

4 d. ago William Golding: The Faber Letters review – the making of a masterpiece

Correspondence between the Lord of the Flies author and his editor reveals one of the great literary collaborations of the ageWhen William Golding submitted Lord of the Flies to Faber in 1953 it had already been rejected at least seven times, maybe as many as 20. Charles Monteith could tell from the dog-eared typescript that it had done the rounds, and a reader for Faber called it “absurd and uninteresting Rubbish and dull. Pointless.” But Monteith, young and new to the job, could see the book’s potential, and suggested ways that Golding – then a Salisbury-based schoolmaster in his early 40s – might improve it. More radically cut and revised than Monteith expected, the novel became a school syllabus classic. Thus began an author-editor friendship that lasted 40 years.Their early exchanges by post were formal in the extreme: it took two years for Dear Monteith, Dear Golding to become Dear Charles, Dear Bill. But as provincial grammar school boys who both read English at Oxford, the t...

Politics

4 d. ago Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes up on ophthalmology’

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive householdIn 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in their school playground: “It’s your turn, Doctor.” The graffiti was a thinly veiled threat that Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, a London-trained ophthalmologist, would be next in the line of Arab dictators toppled by the then raging Arab spring.It took 14 years, during which 620,000 were killed and nearly 14 million displaced, but eventually the doctor’s turn came and Assad was deposed, fleeing to Moscow in the middle of the night. Continue reading...

Society

4 d. ago Zara McDermott shares first photo with Louis Tomlinson in adorable moment

Former Love Island star Zara McDermott looked blissfully happy as she posed alongside her boyfriend One Direction star Louis Tomlinson while they celebrated her birthday together

Culture

6 d. ago Doorbell video captures moment house blown to pieces in gas explosion

A doorbell camera caught the moment a house was obliterated by a gas explosion on a residential street.

Society

7 d. ago Moment man pulls out a knife and stabs a father to death all caught on doorbell camera

Kane Kotwica, 39, fatally stabbed his neighbour Matthew Cainey, 53, and wounded two others in a block of flats on May 28 this year.

Events

7 d. ago CCTV shows moment evil gang shoot 'adored' granddad dead through window as killers jailed

Barry Dawson, 60, was fatally shot in broad daylight in April this year, with killers Sean Reay, 30, and associates Kelvin Lawson, 38, and Thomas Sterling, 22, jailed for life today

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7 d. ago Chilling murder caught on doorbell camera as grandad shot in his own home

The shocking doorbell footage caught the shooting as the victim's son can be heard shouting “They shot my dad.”

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7 d. ago Trio jailed for life after shooting of innocent grandfather in murder caught on doorbell camera

Barry Dawson, 60, was killed after being shot through his living room window

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7 d. ago Trio jailed for life after shooting innocent grandfather in murder caught on doorbell camera

Barry Dawson, 60, was killed after being shot through his living room window

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8 d. ago Police investigating postman for 'hate crime' after doorbell camera captures him knocking over rainbow garden gnome

A couple living at the address believe the video shows the postman deliberately knocking over the Pride ornament

Events

8 d. ago Scottish Opera's Primary Schools tour sets sail for Lanarkshire

The Dragon of the Western Sea will be entertaining pupils.

Culture

8 d. ago Islington murder: Teachers pay tribute to boy, 15, stabbed to death near school in north London

The boy was killed on Westbourne Road in Islington on Tuesday afternoon

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8 d. ago Islington murder: Floral tributes to boy, 15, stabbed to death near school in north London

The boy was killed on Westbourne Road in Islington on Tuesday afternoon

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9 d. ago Islington murder: Boy, 15, stabbed to death near school in north London

The boy was killed on Westbourne Road in Islington on Tuesday afternoon

Events

9 d. ago Teenage boy arrested in US after bomb threat made to Scots school

Police in America arrested a 16-year-old after detectives probing another threat uncovered messages about the Fife incident on a phone.

Events

9 d. ago UK school locked down after boy, 15, 'threatened with knife'

Pupils at South Wirral High School, in Eastham, Wirral were forced to go into locked down after a 15-year-old boy was threatened with a knife by two males nearby this morning

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