10 h. ago ‘I am going to leave the room’: Art teacher banned over ‘dishonest’ exam behaviour

Wendy Lewis’ behaviour lacked integrity and was dishonest, a panel hearing at the Teaching Regulation Agency found

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13 h. ago Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to social media ban for young people

PM says he is alarmed at reports about children’s screen time and has shifted position on Australian-style policyUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has told MPs he is open to the idea of an Australian-style ban on social media for young people after becoming concerned about the amount of time children and teenagers are spending on their phones.The prime minister told Labour MPs on Monday evening he had become alarmed at reports about five-year-olds spending hours in front of screens each day, as well as increasingly worried about the damage social media is doing to under-16s. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Art teacher banned after telling pupils how to improve their work during exam

Wendy Lewis’ behaviour lacked integrity and was dishonest, a panel hearing at the Teaching Regulation Agency found

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5 d. ago 'They all turned on her. It was vicious': The toxic truth about how Little Mix 'ganged up' on Jesy Nelson... as insiders tell KATIE HIND why band wanted her 'cancelled for good'

When Jesy Nelson won The X Factor along with her bandmates Little Mix back in 2011, she didn't rush out to celebrate. Instead, the first thing she did was hire a personal trainer.

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5 d. ago 'They all turned on her. It was vicious': The toxic truth about how Little Mix 'ganged up' on Jesy Nelson... as insiders tell KATIE HIND why band wanted her 'cancelled for good'

When Jesy Nelson won The X Factor along with her bandmates Little Mix back in 2011, she didn't rush out to celebrate. Instead, the first thing she did was hire a personal trainer.

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6 d. ago Lloyds Bank tells customers to check their old statements over £250 payments

The qualifying rules for the Lloyds bonus payment are quite specific

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6 d. ago Teacher banned for telling pupils gay men are 'unnatural' and Islam is 'demonic'

Patrick Lawler was banned from teaching indefinitely with a minimum of four years before he can apply for reinstatement due to the 'high risk of similar misconduct reoccurring'

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8 d. ago Teacher banned after telling pupils Rosa Parks did not give up bus seat and Martin Luther King was a fraud

Patrick Lawler told year six pupils Rosa Parks ‘did not really exist’

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8 d. ago Paris court finds 10 guilty of harassing Brigitte Macron online

Teacher and publicist among those convicted of maliciously posting or sharing false claims French first lady is a manEurope live – latest updatesA Paris court has found 10 people guilty of online harassment of the French first lady, Brigitte Macron, by posting or reposting malicious comments on social media that falsely claimed she was a man.Eight men and two women, aged 41 to 60, including a school sports teacher, an art gallery owner and a publicist, were on Monday given sentences ranging from a compulsory course in understanding online harassment to an eight-month suspended prison sentence. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Natwest issues urgent warning to anyone with a savings account

The high street banking giant has been emailing customers telling them that the change is happening 'in weeks'

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1 week ago Natwest issues urgent change alert to anyone with a savings account 'within weeks'

The high street banking giant has been emailing customers telling them of date the move will be made

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2 w. ago Fraudster who conned elderly victims out of £100k by convincing them to leave bank cards outside for couriers to collect is jailed for over 6 years

Abdirahman Yalahow, 29, from Walsall, West Midlands, posed as bank officials or police officers when phoning eight victims to tell them that their bank accounts had been compromised.

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2 w. ago Trump says ‘there’ll be hell to pay’ if Hamas does not disarm as he meets Netanyahu at Mar

US president says group will have ‘very short period’ to disarm and that he and Israeli prime minister ‘don’t agree on the West Bank 100%’ as pair meetBenjamin Netanyahu is expected to tell Donald Trump on Monday that Hamas must return the remains of the last Israeli hostage left in Gaza before the next stages of the stalled ceasefire can be implemented, Israeli officials and analysts say.The trip comes amid a new push by officials in Washington to force concessions from Israel to allow progress towards a second stage of the ceasefire in Gaza, which began in October after two years of devastating war.He feels he has a number of cards to play yet and the remains of Gvili is the easiest one to play now but there are others.Netanyahu knows exactly what he wants for Christmas – more of the same. Israeli troops stay in 51% of Gaza, periodically striking Hamas without the shadow of withdrawal looming over him. None of this requires a denunciation of the [Trump] plan itself and Trump can v...

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3 w. ago ‘I was left homeless after the Home Office claimed I wasn’t a child – here’s why AI age checks are dangerous for migrants like me’

The Home Office has advertised a £1.3 million contract for an algorithm that can ‘accurately predict someone’s age’. One former asylum seeker tells Holly Bancroft why he thinks this could go very wrong

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3 w. ago Who killed Edmond Safra? Inside the real story of Murder in Monico

Netflix's new documentary Murder in Monaco tells the story of billionaire banker Edmond Safra's death in 1999.

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