5 h. ago History teacher, 39, at £40,000 a year private school banned from classrooms after secret sexual relationship with pupil

Paedophile Thomas Marriott was working as a history teacher and rowing coach when he embarked on the sordid relationship with a student at St Peter's School in York.

Economics

25 h. ago Julianne Moore’s freckles? How Republican bans on ‘woke’ books have reached new level

Trump administration escalates movement forged by US states to censor literature in full-scale DEI crackdownWhen the actor Julianne Moore learned her children’s book, Freckleface Strawberry, a tale of a girl who learns to stop hating her freckles, had been targeted for a potential ban at all schools serving US military families, she took to Instagram, posting that it was a “great shock” to discover the story had been “banned by the Trump Administration”.Moore had seen a memo that circulated last week revealing that tens of thousands of American children studying in about 160 Pentagon schools both in the US and around the world had had all access to library books suspended for a week, while officials conducted a “compliance review” to hunt out any books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics”. Continue reading...

Politics

2 d. ago House builder supports West Lothian School Bank with bumper donation

Miller Homes’ donation to The School Bank West Lothian will go towards providing schools with “camp clothing packs” to ensure that every child has a chance to fully participate in school camp trips.

Politics

3 d. ago Police officer caught removing burglar’s tag in secret sexual relationship

Natasha Conneely’s ‘entirely selfish’ actions risked leaving known burglar free to commit further crimes, Bedfordshire Police says

Events

4 d. ago Anas Sarwar: I will ban mobile phones in school classrooms as Labour First Minister

The Scottish Labour leader said he would make schools ‘safe, calm places for learning again’

Politics

6 d. ago Traffic wardens banned from patrolling alone at primary school after violent threats from parents ignoring new restrictions

New yellow lines and zig-zag parking controls have been painted outside The Discovery School in West Malling, Kent but parents claim they are being ignored.

Events

6 d. ago Teacher had relationship with teen student and didn't tell husband baby wasn't his

Shawnee Nicole Despain, 26, resigned from her teaching role after an investigation revealed she was in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student and fell pregnant by him

Society

7 d. ago Julianne Moore in ‘great shock’ after her book is ‘banned by Trump administration’

Books is reportedly under review to ensure it is not ‘potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics’

Events

8 d. ago Labour's VAT raid forced a teenage girl, 13, out of private school and now council has to fund her £8,000 taxi bill

Ava Lambert's parents could no longer afford private education after her fees rose by £3,270, meaning they had no choice but to enrol her in a state school 25 miles away.

Economics