10 h. ago William and Kate seen in London in first official outing since summer break

It comes just a day after the royal couple’s children began their new school term

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5 d. ago Parents in England to pay more for school lunches as caterers blame rising costs

As a new academic year begins providers say national insurance rises and food price inflation has forced up pricesParents across England are facing higher prices for school lunches as the new school year begins, with caterers blaming the government’s national insurance increase alongside rising food and energy costs.Lunch providers say increases in staffing costs, including employer national insurance contributions announced by the chancellor last year, have added “significant extra pressure” to their budgets. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Two children dead and 17 others hurt after shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school: Latest updates

Shooting began shortly before 8:30 a.m. at church and school in South Minneapolis

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8 d. ago Minneapolis shooter dead after opening fire at Annunciation Church and school during Mass: Latest updates

Shooting began shortly before 8:30 a.m. at church and school in South Minneapolis

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8 d. ago Kids in Upper Nithsdale village denied school transport despite living in catchment area

Pupils in Kelloholm are having to use a service bus which gets to Sanquhar Academy an hour before the school day begins.

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8 d. ago Married teacher banned after having sex in school classroom cupboard

Liyarna Beamish, 39, served as deputy head an elite grammar school for girls, when she began a two-year secret relationship with fellow staff member Gareth Collins, 45.

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8 d. ago Boy, 12, begs mum 'just kill me' after horror school holiday incident

Hunter Jory was playing with pals during the summer holidays when the horrific incident took place

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9 d. ago Spate of hoax calls about active shooters stir fear at college campuses around the US

A rash of hoax calls about active shooters on college campuses has spread fear among students around the country as the school year begins at institutions of higher learning

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9 d. ago Boy, 12, begs mum to let him die after freak fire during school holidays

Hunter Jory was playing in a field with his friends during the holidays when the tragedy unfolded.

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9 d. ago Boy, 12, begs mum 'let me die' after freak school holiday fire accident

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Hunter Jory, 12, was playing in a field when another child threw a can of petrol on a fire, causing a huge explosion that left him with horrific burns which seared the skin from his face and body

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1 week ago New London schools embrace magnet pathways as school year begins

New London schools embrace magnet pathways as school year begins  fox61.com

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1 week ago Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing review – candy

A garbled story of metaverse musicians based on a mobile game leaves its audience little to grasp hold ofEven by the standards of franchise anime that caters to the faithful and drops newcomers in blind, this is particularly incomprehensible. Based on the mobile game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!, it features a barely characterised blur of wannabe musicians and actors who ascribe Manhattan Project importance to writing syrupy J-pop. As they interact with virtual counterparts in metaverses called “Sekai” created from users’ emotions, the film is like The Matrix if Neo had huffed a nitrous oxide canister before having every edition of Pop Idol downloaded into his cranium.One of the virtual pop stars, a rogue version of Hatsune Miku (voiced by Saki Fuijta), keeps invading high-school kids’ mobile phones and flatscreens, begging for help. Apparently issuing from a Sekai created by the emo angst of everyone about to give up on their creative ambitions, she is hoping to connect with these...

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3 w. ago Stepmother's chilling 911 calls released 'after she tortured girl, 10, to death'

Anicia Woods and Richard Baptiste have been accused of carrying out a prolonged campaign of cruel sexual and physical abuse that ultimately lead to the death of 10-year-old Rebekah Baptiste in Holbrook, Arizona

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3 w. ago Wicked Arizona stepmother's chilling 911 calls 'after she and boyfriend tortured girl, 10, to death'

Anicia Woods called 911 three times on July 27 to report she was taking her 'daughter' - later identified as Rebekah Baptiste - to an emergency medical service station because she was not breathing.

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3 w. ago The Benson Diary by AC Benson review – musings of an Edwardian elitist

At four million words he beats Pepys, but the daily jottings of a judgmental don fail to transcend his rather stuffy millieuAC Benson is remembered today, if at all, for having edited three volumes of Queen Victoria’s letters and for writing Land of Hope and Glory to accompany Elgar’s first Pomp and Circumstance march – though, like Elgar, he came to dislike the vainglorious imperial sentiments that the words express – “vulgar stuff and not my manner at all”. Born in 1862, he began his working life as a school master at Eton, before moving on in 1904 to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was first a fellow and then master.Notably, he left voluminous diaries – over four million words, filling 180 bound volumes – four times the length of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, who had been an undergraduate at Magdalene. Benson was well connected and knew most of the political and literary elite of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, so one might have expected him to offer a similarly ...

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3 w. ago Girl who was 'tortured to death' had begged her school not to let her go home

Rebekah Baptiste's father and his girlfriend have been accused of her murder.

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last month Girl, 10, dies all alone in hospital 'after being tortured to death by father and his girlfriend'

A 10-year-old girl died all alone after she was brutally tortured by her father and his girlfriend, according to police.

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last month Covid cases rising in US as officials plan to restrict booster vaccines

Risks of a wave are compounded by new vaccine restrictions from the Trump administrationCovid is on the rise again in the US, as children begin returning to school and as officials plan to restrict booster shots.While cases are increasing less quickly than at the start of other surges, it is too soon to tell how big the current late-summer wave could get – and with highly varied immune responses from prior infections and vaccinations, it is difficult to know how severe illness could be, experts said. Continue reading...

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