13 h. ago Young brothers find their 'bubbly and caring' mother dying on the sofa from 'brain bleed' after coming home from school

Lorraine Probert, 45, had dropped her two sons at school before collapsing soon after returning home.

Events

14 h. ago Heartbreak as young brothers find their 'bubbly and caring' mother dying on the sofa from 'brain bleed' after coming home from school

Lorraine Probert, 45, had dropped her two sons at school before collapsing soon after returning home.

Events

21 h. ago Keir Starmer attacks 'toxic, divisive disgrace' Nigel Farage as PM blasts Reform's 'racist policies'

Nigel Farage has come under fire for his comments about bilingual school pupils in Glasgow.

Events

44 h. ago Teaching children finance more important than history or science, new report reveals

TEACHING children about financial education is more important than history or science, a major survey shows. A new global report from Santander finds that people rank financial education second only to maths in a list of the core school subjects. The study come after Ministers announced last month that financial literacy will be required in...

Society

4 d. ago Mammoth series two review – it is a subversive thrill to laugh at these offensive jokes

This old-school sitcom about a PE teacher who wakes after being frozen since the 70s is an impeccably deadpan send-up of masculinity. But it hits hardest when this unreconstructed man turns out to be right about life todayYou can lay the demise of political satire at the door of stranger-than-fiction governmental turmoil. You can attribute the disappearance of pop culture pastiche to a fractured zeitgeist and the thinning out of the artistic mainstream. Yet there’s no obvious reason for the scarcity of jokes about contemporary society in comedy. Maybe it has something to do with the decline of the sketch show; perhaps it’s simply because there’s far less funny stuff on TV in general (during the 2010s, the BBC’s comedy output almost halved). Whatever the reason, when we get a chance to laugh at modern mores, we should probably take it.Re-enter Mammoth, an old-school sitcom from the Welsh comedian Mike Bubbins. The 53-year-old stars as the eponymous Tony Mammoth, a PE teacher who was ...

Politics

8 d. ago Schools and councils warn rising cost of special needs support is unaffordable

Ministers promise reform, but teaching unions say Send spending must not come at the expense of school budgets

Events

1 week ago Hope in Nigeria as 50 schoolchildren escape captivity but 253 more still held

School kidnappings have come to define insecurity in Africa's most populous nation

Politics

2 w. ago Digitised official records of Nuremberg trials made available online

Launch on 80th anniversary of groundbreaking legal effort comes after 25-year project by Harvard law school libraryA fully digitised collection of the records of the Nuremberg trials is being launched online to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the groundbreaking legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice.Open access to every official document from the trial, held by the Harvard law school library, will be available to all researchers, whether amateur or professional, for the first time from Thursday after a 25-year endeavour by a 30-strong team of historians, metadata curators and librarians. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago UK school closures as snow and ice weather warnings come into force

Met Office warns of ‘substantial disruption’ as cold snap grips northern half of UK

Events

2 w. ago 'I went to school with Prince William and have never forgotten one comment he made'

Actor and comedian Humphrey Ker went to school with Prince William and said the future King left everyone in hysterics with what he wanted to be when he grew up

Politics