55 h. ago Girl sues boarding school for £145,000 after ‘drug binge left her with PTSD’

The binge landed Irune Pedrayes in hospital after she suffered an extended ‘psychotic outbreak’

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3 d. ago Havoc by Rebecca Wait review – a Saint Trinian’s tragicomedy

A mysterious illness sweeps through an isolated girls’ boarding school, in a work brimming with horror, humour and hysteriaEven if it wasn’t perched on a cliff on the south coast, the position of St Anne’s, Eastbourne – the decaying girls’ school that is the setting for Rebecca Wait’s gleefully macabre new novel, Havoc – might reasonably be described as precarious. Deeply eccentric, staffed by the barely employable, and permanently teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, St Anne’s hangs on, against all the odds. And then, in 1984, Ida Campbell turns up on the doorstep, in possession of a full scholarship and rather a lot of baggage.Sixteen years old and already an outcast, Ida is in flight from her hapless mother, her foul-tempered sister, the small community in the Western Isles to which they have been transplanted, and the nameless scandal that has ruined their lives. St Anne’s is to be Ida’s salvation, but it soon dawns on her that the school migh...

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3 d. ago ESCP Business School appoints three new trustees to its London board

ESCP Business School appoints three new trustees to its London board  London Post

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5 d. ago ‘Chipping away at democracy’: authors fear outcome of US supreme court’s LGBTQ+ book ruling

Some parents can now opt students out of LGBTQ+ book readings. The writers warn of increased book bans and biasSarah Brannen, an illustrator and children’s book author, was riding in the car with her sister when she received an alert on her phone in late June. She was in a group chat with other authors whose books were being debated in a US supreme court case, and the messages soon poured in. Her book, Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, highlights a same-sex marriage, and is at the center of a contentious case that could have widespread implications for public school education throughout the nation.As per the 27 June ruling, a group of Maryland parents have the option to remove their public elementary school students from classes where Uncle Bobby’s Wedding and other storybooks with LGBTQ+ themes are read. The justices decided through a 6-3 vote that the Montgomery county school board violated parents’ right to freely exercise their religion by forbidding kids from opting out of instruction. Th...

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6 d. ago Heidi Katona looks set to follow in the footsteps of Princess Andre with magazine shoots, influencer deals and TV appearances and the nepo babies' BFF mums could be set to cash in too

And now Kerry Katona has thrown her hat into the ring to become the 'next Kris Jenner' as her daughter Heidi, 18, has started following the footsteps of her friend and fellow nepo baby, Princess Andre.

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9 d. ago French PM François Bayrou failed to act on abuse at Catholic boarding school, report says

Damning report by MPs comes after inquiry into allegations of decades of physical abuse, rape and sexual assault at Notre-Dame de Bétharram schoolThe French prime minister, François Bayrou, failed to act to prevent physical and sexual abuse at a private Catholic school in south-west France when he served as education minister between 1993 and 1997, a parliamentary report has said.The damning report issued by French lawmakers on Wednesday comes after a long parliamentary inquiry into allegations of decades of physical abuse, rape and sexual assault at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram boarding school near Pau in south-west France. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Moonlight Peaks: your chance to live as a tiny vegan vampire

Dracula’s daughter seeks a more peaceful life making plant-based blood substitutes in this Stardew-Valley-inspired, gently creepy farming gameWhat if you were a tiny, vegan vampire? That’s the question posed by Moonlight Peaks, the gen Z-coded, achingly TikTok-ready supernatural life sim. Inspired by the popularity of “cosy games” such as Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, Moonlight Peaks drapes you in the cape of Dracula’s daughter, who has fled her father’s corpse-ridden home to start a new, peaceful life.Soon, she settles among werewolves and witches in the supernatural farming town of Moonlight Peaks, where she grows crops and rears animals instead of subsisting on the blood of innocents. Both cosy and creepy, the game has you creating your own plant-based blood substitutes, befriending the town’s residents and fixing a whole host of problems left in daddy Dracula’s wake.Moonlight Peaks is out on PC in 2026 Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France

Legal complaints filed by former pupils accuse priests and staff of physical or sexual abuse from 1957 to 2004When 14-year-old Pascal Gélie saw a brochure for an elite French Catholic boarding school boasting swimming in summer and skiing in winter, he begged his parents to send him. He had just watched the American school drama Dead Poets Society and was expecting “sport and friendship”.“On the first night, I realised I’d made a terrible mistake,” said Gélie, now a 51-year-old office-worker in Bordeaux. “There were 40 of us in a dormitory with decrepit mattresses. When I whispered to another boy for some toilet paper to take to the bathroom, the supervisor grabbed me by the face and pointed to the stone terrace outside. Someone told me to take my coat because you could be forced to stand outside for hours in the cold and damp. I was made to stand there all night.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Dad's shocking six words to ex before shooting her in head overhead by daughter

Cindy Crossthwaite's divorce with her ex ended in tragedy that started with a vicious threat overheard by their nine year old daughter which then led to the brutal murder of her mum

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2 w. ago Edinburgh boarding school 'protected abusers for six decades'

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith has published her findings on the provision of residential care at Merchiston Castle School.

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2 w. ago Edinburgh boarding school for boys ‘protected abusers’ for six decades, inquiry finds

Lady Smith said there was a ‘more or less continuous line of indecency’ from two named perpetrators at Edinburgh school.

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2 w. ago Boarding school ‘protected abusers’ for six decades, inquiry concludes

Lady Smith said there was a ‘more or less continuous line of indecency’ from two named perpetrators at Merchiston Castle School.

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3 w. ago Starmer tells Lionesses they inspired his daughter to start playing football

Sir Keir Starmer told the Lionesses that they have inspired his daughter to start playing football.

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3 w. ago Mum, 40, and daughter, 8, found dead at home as more details heard into tragedy

An inquest has started into the deaths of mother and daughter Martina Karos and Eleni Edwards

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3 w. ago Boarding school gave me PTSD but I locked it away until my daughter started to board. Then it triggered a breakdown that saw me sectioned: DR CATHY WIELD

I had just dropped my daughter off at the Royal Ballet School, where she was to be a boarder. But the trauma of my own boarding experience brought the dread and horror flooding back to me.

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3 w. ago Dad makes baby 'apologise' to plane passengers 'for what she put them through'

After landing in Atlanta from London, dad Joseph was filmed cradling his baby daughter Ava who started smiling at all passengers disembarking - and her mum filmed the adorable moment

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3 w. ago Monk who brought shame on Catholic boarding school jailed for abusing pupils

Michael James Callaghan, known as Father James, has been jailed for seven years for preying on the vulnerable teenage boys at Ampleforth College.

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4 w. ago Boarding school mass sex attack horror: How a mob of boys raped 71 girls in night of depravity with 19 victims killed in a stampede as they tried to escape their dormitory

Twilight was receding into night on July 13, 1991 when St. Kizito, a mixed boarding school in the Kenyan town of Meru, was plunged into darkness

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4 w. ago Air India crash LIVE: First feared victims of London Gatwick

Over 290 people are believed to have died in disaster, including a students at a medical school, with 53 British passengers on board the flight

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last month Rochelle Humes 'fights tears' over daughter's reaction to career boost and says 'just getting started'

The presenter has another huge career away from the small screen

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