3 h. ago BBC show Grange Hill 'to return' after 17 years but will 'feel different' from 'trans issues to trolling'

The iconic secondary school drama was watched by millions and is reportedly set for a reboot, but could look and feel very different with a focus on issues important to today's Gen Alpha viewers

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5 h. ago The BBC are 'redeveloping iconic kids show Grange Hill with a very different feel' 17 years after it was last aired

The BBC are reportedly developing a reboot of iconic children's show Grange Hill - 17 years after it was last on screens. 

Society

12 h. ago Iconic BBC kids’ TV series watched by millions RETURNING after 17 years – but with ‘VERY different feel’

THE BBC is developing a reboot of classic kids show Grange Hill — 17 years after it was last on our screens. Millions of Brits were raised watching the teatime school drama, which ran from 1978 to 2008. Its much-loved characters included Peter “Tucker” Jenkins — played by EastEnders star Todd Carty — whose “flippin’...

Culture

58 h. ago Strictly finalist says they feel 'physically sick' as four legends return for Blackpool week

The special week of the BBC dancing competition will feature several familar faces

Politics

5 d. ago ‘I fled Africa to safety in the UK – Starmer’s migrant crackdown means I could be sent back’

Shams Moussa says despite a change of government in his home country, he’s feel like an ‘alien’ as he condemned Labour’s plan to return refugees as part of a planned overhaul of the asylum system

Events

7 d. ago ‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation

In Paris, a group of those returned from UK as part of the immigration scheme say they feel frightened and hopelessAfran, an Iranian asylum seeker, sits forlornly across the road from a Paris shelter, hemmed in between vast slabs of concrete and thundering trains above. He has been here before – seven weeks ago, to be precise. The second time, he says, is as terrifying as his first.Afran – not his real name – hit the headlines when he became the first asylum seeker to return to the UK in a small boat after being removed to France under the controversial “one in, one out” scheme on 19 September. He was sent back to Paris for the second time on 5 November. Continue reading...

Economics

1 week ago Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer

PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be liftedUK politics live – latest updatesDecades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.Speaking to the GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...

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