50 m. ago Dad spends day at daughter's school and makes 6 key observations

A dad has shared his key 'thoughts and observations' after spending the day as volunteer at his daughter's school - and he left with a new-found appreciation for teachers

Economics

2 h. ago Amazon in Dunfermline partners with Big House Multibank to pack 1,500 backpacks as part of 'Kits For Kids' back to school campaign

Employees from Amazon in Dunfermline have come together to pack and donate 1,500 backpacks filled with essential back-to-school items to help ensure local children are equipped with the tools to succeed this new school year.

Politics

3 h. ago 'I spent a day at my kid's school and made 6 key observations'

A 33-year-old dad has shared what he learnt after volunteering at his child's school for a day - and says it has changed his outlook on the teaching career entirely

Economics

5 h. ago Parents call on Dumfries and Galloway Council to buy buses for school for kids with additional support needs

Friends of Langlands are tired of all their fundraising efforts going towards keeping old buses on the road.

Politics

23 h. ago 'Weapon' Lee Anderson slammed over 'dumb' national anthem plan 'just like North Korea'

Reform's Lee Anderson revealed that he wanted school kids to be forced to sing the National Anthem every morming while waving flags - all completely normal behaviour thank you very much...

Events

23 h. ago Stanhope Silver Band walk on water! Richard Grassick’s best photograph

‘There was only room for one band member on each stepping stone. When they saw me standing in the middle of the River Wear, I imagine they just thought, “Here he goes again”’I joined the Amber Film & Photography Collective in 1983. Amber’s aim was to capture working-class life in north-east England, and over nearly 30 years I amassed a body of work documenting life in the upper Durham Dales – a project I later called People of the Hills. In 1994, I moved with my young family into a derelict plumber’s workshop and yard in Stanhope, Weardale. Living there over the next six years meant I met people in all kinds of circumstances – I got to know and photograph many local owners of smallholdings because my kids befriended theirs at school.The members of the Stanhope Silver Band, seen in this photograph, were well known in the village. One was a joiner who paid us five quid a month to use our outbuildings as workshop space. I don’t know how many of those in the picture are still in the...

Culture

27 h. ago Giant sinkhole opens up outside primary school as kids return after summer

A huge sinkhole has suddenly emerged outside Litchard Primary School, in Bridgend, south Wales, forcing the road to be closed off while the cause is investigated

Politics

43 h. ago Harry urges others to ‘step up’ as he donates £1.1 million to Children in Need

The Duke of Sussex spent his second day in the UK highlighting the issue of knife crime.

Economics

60 h. ago UK households urged to declutter 10 things from their home during September

As the weather cools down and the kids head back to school, experts have recommended a list of items that Brits should get rid of if they want to declutter their homes

Society

3 d. ago Parents issued warning as kids could be punished for bringing popular item to school

Make sure your kids don't get in trouble this school year by bringing in this popular item.

Events

3 d. ago Man dressed in schoolgirl uniform with pink bag near school as kids 'not safe'

The middle-aged man wears a blazer with the logo of a local school and even a little pink backpack as he hovers near schools smoking cigarettes and freaking out parents

Culture

3 d. ago Travel agents are demanding a big change that’d make family holidays much cheaper

Advantage Travel Partnership, which represents more than 4,000 travel agents, has called for a radical overhaul of the school holiday system so families with kids in state schools are no longer ripped off

Politics

4 d. ago I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far rightSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreWhen my dad went to school in the 1970s, the kids used to pretend he was invisible. Every day he would try to make conversation and play with the other children, and every day he would be ignored. One night it got so bad that my grandma found him crying himself to sleep, unable to process, as an eight-year-old, why no one would want to talk to “the brown kid”. This kind of social exclusion was sadly all too familiar in postwar Britain – my white grandma had endured her own share of abuse ever since she fell in love with my Sri Lankan grandad in 1966, committing the family’s original sin of interracial marriage.When I heard these stories as a child, they felt like terrible...

Politics

4 d. ago Back to school motors: As kids return from summer holidays, these are some of the best cars used to ferry them to the gates dating back to the 1950s

The Daily Mail and classic car insurer Hagerty have picked our combined ten favourite school run cars from five decades between the 1950s and 1990s.

Transport

4 d. ago The school dinners and puddings we either loved or hated as kids

Whether you had school meals or were a packed lunch kid, this should bring memories flooding back

Politics

4 d. ago The cheapest return flights from Cardiff and Bristol for a post

The kids are back in school, which can only mean one thing... it's time to book a holiday.

Transport

5 d. ago 'I pulled my child out of school to travel the world and it's worth every penny'

When you're a family on the road, it's not quite as simple as pulling the kids out of school and heading off but for this mum, it proved to be the only way

Politics

5 d. ago Gamers are fuelling a truancy spike as young Brit kids skive off school

Young Brits are skipping school and fuelling a fresh truancy crisis by emulating social media stars who became rich playing video games online

Politics

6 d. ago McFly’s Harry Judd and wife and Izzy partner with Holland & Barrett to fight back

With kids returning to school, now’s the time to strengthen their immune systems to prevent sick days.

Politics

6 d. ago Trump set to host US tech leaders at Rose Garden – minus Elon Musk

Tesla CEO’s absence is marked departure from his constant presence at the White House in early days of Trump 2.0When Donald Trump hosts leaders from the US’ biggest tech companies at a lavish Rose Garden dinner on Thursday night, there will be one notable absence. Elon Musk, once inseparable from Trump and a constant, contentious presence in the White House, will not be in attendance.The dinner, which will include Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Apple’s Tim Cook and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, is exactly the type of event where Musk would have sat at Trump’s right hand only a few months ago. Instead, the Tesla CEO stated on his social media platform X that he was invited but could not make it. He said he planned to send a representative. He spent the day on X posting a familiar stream of attacks on immigration and trans people. Continue reading...

Politics