64 h. ago Barney took ketamine aged 16 to celebrate the end of GCSEs. A year later he was addicted. At 21 he was dead. Now his despairing mother reveals the true horror of drug so many are taking

When Deborah Casserly's son Barney started primary school, she and several other mums set up a book club.

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3 d. ago ‘Sidmouth became our summer place’: Jeremy Vine on why his family love holidaying in Devon

The broadcaster and author can’t get enough of this stretch of England’s south coast, and has even set his first murder mystery thereMy earliest memory of Devon is being lost, and my mum crying. I was at junior school. I had a friend whose mother was described as “vague” – this was the 1970s, so that could have been code for almost anything. The vague mother had given my normally quite organised mother directions to a remote house where my schoolfriend spent his summers. We were “popping in” (70s code: spending the day there). The instructions to find the place were something like, “Turn left after South Zeal, pass the dirt track and follow the direction the sheep are facing.”After an hour of pretending we were still on the right route, my mum suddenly burst into tears and uttered a rare denunciation of a fellow human being. “That SILLY woman!” she shouted. “We don’t know where we are. Nobody does.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Teachers 'outraged' by new Robinsons squash TV advert they say 'undermines' the profession

The controversial advert shows a boy's mum being called by his school

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8 d. ago I was the smug school gate mum that everyone hated. To this day, other women cross the street to avoid me. I now fear I'm slipping back into my old ways: RACHEL HALLIWELL

You see, as soon as my oldest child started primary school, I morphed into a monster. It was like a switch got flicked the day she brought home her first book bag.

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1 week ago Mum and son locked in school row over headteacher making pupils 'salute him'

The headteacher brought in a new morning rule, forcing pupils to 'salute'.

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1 week ago My son was shot dead just days after celebrating his 23rd birthday... but I blame American parents for normalising a culture of gun violence in schools

Rory Swimm, who was born in Dundee in Scotland, was killed after an altercation with a stranger in Salt Lake City, Utah, just days after his 23rd birthday on October 13, 2023.

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1 week ago Mum and son locked in furious school row over headteacher's 'salute' demand

A mum has threatened to remove her Year 7 son from his secondary school after its headteacher brought in a new rule for the morning session, forcing pupils to 'salute'

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2 w. ago Andrew Hunter Murray: ‘Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I find more jokes’

The author and podcaster on taking inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, welling up to Charles Dickens, and the enduring appeal of Jane AustenMy earliest reading memoryAt a secondhand book sale at school, a kind teacher recommended my mum buy Brian Jacques’s Redwall. Noble monastic mice battle thuggish rats: catnip for a seven-year-old.My favourite book growing upThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The mad robots and two-headed aliens are great for the teenage brain, but beneath all that is the sadness, and the questions about why life has to be like this, all filtered through poor Arthur Dent. I sometimes pull it off the shelf to read half a page, just to remind myself how comedy writing is done. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Aliny Godinho: Horror final moments of mum murdered in front of daughter on school run

A new series of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan delves into the shocking stabbing of a young mother on the school run and reveals heartbreaking details about her final moments

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2 w. ago Mum stabbed to death on school run in front of daughter heard tragic final words

A new series of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan delves into the shocking stabbing of a young mother on the school run and reveals heartbreaking details about her final moments

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2 w. ago Kids 'screamed and pleaded' as dad viciously assaulted their mum on school run

Thomas Dean had previously threatened his estranged girlfriend while still in prison

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3 w. ago Mum SLAMS school uniform policy leaving kids roasting in sunny weather

The parent has accused the school of 'extreme control with no logic'

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3 w. ago 'Tiger mum' and husband accused of defrauding Britain's top A

Yasmin Sarwar, 43, from Cyncoed, opened Cardiff Sixth Form College in 2004 and claims to have 'helped over 800 students' gain admission into the UK's best universities.

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3 w. ago Mum's school uniform fury as daughter, 12 'faints after overheating in blazer'

Debbi Kinder says her 12-year-old daughter was forced to wear a blazer and tights during a heatwave claiming she fainted after 'four teachers refused to let her remove blazer'

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3 w. ago Mum slams school uniform rules saying daughter fainted after overheating

The school says pupils can remove blazers in class, but they must wear tights with skirts, or swap to trousers

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4 w. ago 'Entitled mum blocked my drive during the school run but I got the best revenge'

A man has shared how he got back at a mother who blocked his driveway while waiting to pick up her children from school - but his actions have divided the internet

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last month 'Entitled mum blocked my drive while waiting for school to finish

A man has explained how he got his revenge on a mother who blocked his driveway while she was waiting to pick up her children from school, but the internet is divided

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