2 h. ago Pupils who want to be doctors 'barred' from vital work experience at NHS hospitals

Some of the UK's largest hospital trusts have effectively barred private-school pupils who want to be doctors from undertaking vital NHS work experience.

Science

11 h. ago Three men charged with attempted murder after man 'injured' in Merthyr

An investigation is under way after a man was allegedly injured in an incident in the Gurnos area of Merthyr Tydfil

Events

43 h. ago Fury as residents charged £45 for green bin collections left with rotting rubbish

'Our green bins were not emptied for four weeks and we had maggots crawling in rotting food'

Economics

3 d. ago Of course Mark Zuckerberg is still doing good works – he’s just switched up the definition of ‘good’ | Emma Brockes

Who has the time to help underprivileged children when you have a pickleball court and a president to attend to?If you put it in a novel – a ham-fisted satire of tech overlord hypocrisy, say – it would look too contrived to fly. But here we are, absorbing a story from the New York Times this week in which Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are discovered to have been running a private school out of their compound in Palo Alto, California, in violation of city zoning laws. More pertinently, the school of 14 kids, which includes two of the couple’s three daughters, is less than a mile from the school for low-income families that the couple founded in 2016. Guess which school the world’s second-richest man and his wife are shutting down?Say the word “zoning infraction” to a certain stripe of American and the effect is equal to using “queue jumper” on a Briton, but of course the broader point here isn’t one about permits. (A spokesperson for Zuckerberg and Chan told the newsp...

Politics

4 d. ago Revealed: The area where parents would pay £81,000 MORE to buy a home near a good school

Parents are willing to pay tens of thousands of pounds extra to live in the catchment area of a top state school, as private school fees hike intensifies competition.

Economics

4 d. ago New charges to be applied to electronic items bought on Amazon and eBay

New rules are coming in a bid to protect the environment

Politics

4 d. ago Hundreds of pupils left 'with nowhere to study' after historic £23k

Governors said Chancellor Rachel Reeves 's 20 per cent levy, as well as increases in employer national insurance contributions were the final nails in the coffin for the 160-year-old institution.

Economics

6 d. ago Private school parents who paid fees in advance to face fresh tax grab from HMRC

Parents with pupils in private school who pre-paid fees in advance of January's VAT hike are facing a fresh attack from the taxman.

Economics

7 d. ago How much every private school in Wales charges and their exam results compared

Some charge fees more than the average wage so what do private schools offer and what results do they get

Politics

9 d. ago Driving instructor charged £35 an hour for lessons but there was one major problem

Mobashir Gujar, 42, told one student not to speak to officer after he was pulled over by police while giving a lesson illegally

Economics

9 d. ago Fifth person charged with arson with intent to endanger life after dramatic house fire

A 32-year-old man from Western-Super-Mare has been charged following the fire at a terraced house in the Rhondda Valleys

Events

1 week ago Private school parents may be dodging Labour’s VAT by paying fees up front

Britain’s most expensive independent schools were paid hundreds of millions of pounds in fees in advance last year, according to new analysis

Economics

1 week ago Council to reverse parking charges at popular seafront after backlash

Some felt the charges were not affordable and could turn visitors and locals away from the area

Politics

1 week ago Woman charged with murder after girl, 3, found dead at house

Pippa McGrath is due to appear in court on Monday

Events

1 week ago Cambridge school 'deeply saddened' after one of its students was found dead in the city outside luxury flats

EF International Language Campuses Cambridge, a private school offering English language courses to overseas students, said a 20-year-old student was 'fatally injured' on Friday.

Events

3 w. ago ‘I am elated each time I watch’: why Rushmore is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers drawing attention to their most-watched comfort films is a reminder of Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic 1998 comedy“Let’s hope it’s got a happy ending,” Herman Blume, played by Bill Murray in one of his best roles, says near the end of Wes Anderson’s 1998 film Rushmore. He makes the remark about an over-the-top, literally pyrotechnic school play that his teenage friend Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) has just debuted to an audience of dazed teachers and parents. But his comment stands in for the whole movie, an audacious and risky comedy that should not work, but does. I am elated each time I watch this poignant, wise and wildly funny film – and, yes, there is a happy ending.Rushmore is about children trying to act like adults and adults acting like children. Fischer is a precocious scholarship student at Rushmore, a prestigious private boys’ school. He is the sort of bright but naive young person who tries to impress an adult by telling them, with a st...

Politics

3 w. ago Man charged after police and protesters clashed at 'asylum seeker' hotel

Thursday’s demonstration was the latest in a series of protests since a man was charged with sexual assault

Events

4 w. ago Four admit taking part in 'serious violence' after brawl outside Welsh pub

There was 'significant disorder' outside the Angel pub on Sunday

Events