14 h. ago Children missing more than half of classes increases as overall absence falls

The Department for Education said it is ‘slowing the stubborn rise in severe absence’.

Events

37 h. ago During cold and flu season, the youngest kids really are the germiest

A recent study of schoolchildren finds that the youngest students harbor the most germs

Politics

40 h. ago Zelensky voices frustration after Trump pulls Tomahawk deal and says the EU and US need to put more pressure on Putin after Russian missiles kill six people including two children overnight

Zelensky urged the European Union and the United States to put more pressure on Vladimir Putin after overnight Russian missiles killed six people, including two children.

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42 h. ago Children among six killed in Kyiv after Russian missile and drone attack

Explosions heard across Ukrainian capital after ballistic missile strikes, with further blasts reported in other regionsRussian drones and missiles have pounded the Ukrainian capital and other cities, killing six people in the Kyiv region, including a six-month-old baby, a 12 -year-old girl and a woman, and damaging key energy facilities and several high-rise residential buildings.The attacks lasted most of Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning as Kyiv was hit by at least four ballistic missiles. A series of loud explosions could be heard across the city. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ‘Money runs out quickly’: Nearly 300,000 disadvantaged young children set to miss out on free meals

Exclusive: Experts warns Labour’s free school meal expansion will skip over a key cohort of disadvantaged children

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6 d. ago Families protest 'dangerous' A316 Twickenham roundabout after near miss involving mother and three children

The protest took place near the A316 at Margaret’s Roundabout in Twickenham, where a driver crashed through roadside barriers last year, narrowly missing family

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7 d. ago Simon Cowell 'bashes head' after fainting and falling down steps in latest accident

Music mogul Simon Cowell has finally explained his recent Britain’s Got Talent absence, revealing he suffered a fall that left him with a head injury

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8 d. ago Bruce Willis’s wife says their kids are ‘grieving’ Die Hard star as dementia advances

Couple’s two children ‘miss their dad so much’ as actor moves into home with care team

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1 week ago Terrified mother's final screams caught on tape as abductor prepared to murder her

Denise Amber Lee, 21, should have been at home with her two young sons. When her husband returned, his children were alone and his wife was missing.

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2 w. ago Celebrity Traitors' Mark Bonnar's marriage to famous wife and kids children he 'misses'

Scottish actor Mark Bonnar is one of the cast of the UK's first-ever series of Celebrity Traitors. Mark previously admitted that it is hard for him to be apart from his family while on set

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2 w. ago Mom accused of shooting two kids dead, and wounding two more, has a 5th child

Oninda Romelus, 31, has been charged with murder after police found bodies of her children in vehicle at a gas station

Events

2 w. ago 'Mindless' thieves steal van to help Ukrainian orphans in Edinburgh

"We won’t be able to help with taking them to doctor or dentist appointments so it is the children who will miss out."

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2 w. ago A Tooth Fairy Tale review – animated adventure with a sprinkling of family

A child-suitable romantic subplot underpins this enjoyable story of fairies putting their long-standing differences with goblins aside to defeat a common enemyIn this animated adventure for preteens, the fairy community’s mission in life is to gather teeth from slumbering children and leave gold for the kids to find under their pillows. (Gold? In my day it was 10p! That’s inflation for you.) Skateboarding teenage rebel fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled by the prospect of spending the foreseeable collecting baby teeth and, to be fair to him, this is entirely reasonable. He’s only a tiny bit more interested in the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies deliver the teeth to unseen goblins, who provide metal in exchange. But Van’s curiosity is piqued when he lays eyes on a goblin (voiced by Larkin Bell) and she turns out to be far from the hideous gnome he had been led to expect.The stage is set for an adventure with a light sprinkling of teen romanc...

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3 w. ago ‘I am quite tough’: Schindler’s List star Embeth Davidtz on her explosive film about Rhodesia’s final days

After starring in Mad Men, Californication, Spider-Man and Junebug, Davidtz soured on acting. Now she’s directed – and starred in – a powerful debut filmBorn in the US, raised in apartheid-era South Africa, a reluctant star in her 20s following her big break in Schindler’s List, and now a first-time director at the age of 60, Embeth Davidtz knows what it means to be an outsider. “I’ve always had the feeling,” she says, “that I don’t quite belong.”Normally found in Los Angeles – where she lives in a house once owned by Julie Andrews, with her husband, the entertainment lawyer Jason Sloane – Davidtz is today in Cape Town for work and family commitments. Speaking by video call from a cream-and-beige bedroom, wearing a white top and glasses with peach-coloured frames, her brunette hair tied back, she looks the picture of serenity. The effect is completed by her voice, which soothed millions of children when she starred as the perfect teacher, Miss Honey, in the 1996 film of Roald Dahl’s...

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3 w. ago Twisted dad faked wife's disappearance then blew himself and their children up in horror death

Detectives hunted for the missing wife, until their lawyer revealed the children had told their grandparents their mother was 'in the trunk'

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3 w. ago Children suffered 'grievous harm' during Covid from those who were meant to care for them, inquiry told

Chairman Baroness Heather Hallett (pictured) said Covid-19's impact on children was 'severe and long-lasting' because they missed educational opportunities and social interaction.

Politics

3 w. ago Adopted sisters didn’t know they were missing children until murdered mother was identified more than three decades later

In 1989, a woman was found murdered in the Arizona desert, and known only as a "Jane Doe.” Her two young daughters vanished without a trace. Decades later, the sisters – who had no idea they were even missing – have been found alive. Andrea Cavallier reports the case as the hunt for the killer continues

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3 w. ago The boys who left for class and never came home: David, 11, and Jonathan, 14, went missing in the middle of the school day in 1969

David Leckey, 11, from Memel Street, and Jonathan Aven, 14, from Sydenham Drive in East Belfast, went missing after they skipped school without permission in September 1969.

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4 w. ago Martin Lewis issues warning to any couples who are not married

Martin Lewis told listeners to his BBC podcast that people could be missing out on major 'benefits' for both their partners and their children

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4 w. ago ‘Children thrive down here’: the secret play centre hidden under Ukraine’s most dangerous city

Kherson’s children have missed nearly four years of school, living in isolation or underground to hide from dronesIn an underground shelter in Kherson, probably the most dangerous city in Ukraine, children are chasing each other between plastic chairs. Outside,mortars, artillery and drones fly their deadly paths back and forth across the Dnipro River that separates the city from Russian forces.This makeshift underground play centre is one of the few places where children can socialise with each other in safety. For a few hours, it can be as though the war is not happening. When the explosions get too close, teachers working at the centre clap louder or turn up the music to drown out the noise. Continue reading...

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