6 h. ago Glenalmond Group to open first international campus as staff at Scots prep school strike over pay

Prestigious Glenalmond College has announced it is to open a campus in Phuket in the same week prep school staff walked out on strike

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3 d. ago Home Bargains £20 'genius' wearable heater 'perfect for dog walks and school run'

Shoppers said there were lots of useful situatins where this jacket could help

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3 d. ago Teachers to strike after management of prestigious prep school 'refuses to engage in talks'

Teachers from the prestigious Craigclowan prep school - part of the Glenalmond group - are to walk out on strike over pay

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5 d. ago Pupil 'fired fake gun in playground' while teachers were striking at primary school over 'assaults and violence'

Staff at Ravensfield Primary School in Greater Manchester staged a walkout on Tuesday January 6 and Wednesday January 7.

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6 d. ago School shooter killed three and then committed harrowing act to victims' families

Thomas 'TJ' Lane was 17 when he walked into Chardon High School in Ohio and opened fire on a group of students, killing three teenagers and injuring three more in February 2012.

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6 d. ago School shooter's horrifying four words to families of victims

Thomas 'TJ' Lane, 17, walked into Chardon High School in Ohio and shot ten rounds at a table of students, killing three teenagers and injuring three others in a crime that shocked America

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7 d. ago School shooter who killed two children set to walk free after life sentence quashed

Charles Andrew 'Andy' Williams, 39, was sentenced to 50-years-to-life in prison for the shooting at Santana High School however now the classroom killer could walk free

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1 week ago ’I inexplicably detest Mr Brightside’: John Simm’s honest playlist

The actor first realised what music was when he heard Yellow Submarine and knows a lot of Paul Simon lyrics, but what would he put on at a party?The first song I fell in love withMy earliest memory is walking into a room at nursery school where they were playing Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. I was captivated by the sound effects, and Lennon shouting: “Full speed ahead!” When it got to the chorus, I remember thinking: “This must be music!”The first single I boughtWhen I was eight, I won a competition at school to pick a new record to play at the mini disco we had on Fridays. My teacher took me to Woolworths, and I chose Come Back My Love by [50s revivalists] Darts. The first single I bought with my own pocket money was Mull of Kintyre by Wings from a record shop in Colne in Lancashire. It was No 1 at the time, and I chose it when my dad pointed out that it was by one of the Beatles. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago At the turn of the year, I’m facing a pivot point. Midlife crisis? No thanks | Emma Brockes

At 50, I find myself in a gazing-up-at-trees phase. What does it all mean? It’s not completely clear – but it’s certainly bothering my kidsAccording to research undertaken by Stanford Medicine in 2024, adult human beings are subject to two “massive biomolecular shifts” – spikes in ageing, in other words – one at 44 and another at 60, confirming what most of us instinctively know to be true: that we get older in jagged bursts – not with gentle, steady progression. As the new year issues its annual invitation to stocktake, the thing I keep thinking is where we might place the equivalent emotional pivot points, those periods in which, after years of – God willing! – pottering along feeling roughly the same, suddenly, one day, there’s a change.I bring this up because I seem to be in the middle of one, an inflection point that manifests in the number of times on the walk back from the school drop-off I stop to look at a bird in a tree, or a snail on a wall, or any number of other overwro...

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4 w. ago Boy, 15, accused of murdering schoolboy Leo Ross, 12, to stand trial next year

Leo Ross, 12, was walking home from school when he was stabbed in the stomach and died after being taken to hospital from a riverside path in Hall Green, Birmingham in January

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