4 h. ago If we want kids to get off screens, adults have to do the same

As a group of schools tells parents to limit their smartphone usage, Helen Coffey argues that our behaviour is just as important when it comes to helping the next generation get off their devices and into the real world

Politics

4 h. ago Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill is built on falsehoods about low

Republicans portray those in poverty as lazy people who make poor decisions. They’re using that trope to justify huge cuts to the social safety netAs they race to deliver Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill, Republicans in Congress are using familiar tropes to justify massive cuts to the safety net that will leave millions of low-income children and families without healthcare or sufficient food. The programs, they argue, are rife with waste, fraud and abuse, and the people who use them just aren’t working hard enough. So work requirements are necessary to force the obviously lazy “able-bodied” people to get to work.Here’s the reality check: a majority of those receiving this aid who can work are already working. More than 70% of working-age people who receive nutrition benefits or Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income children and adults that covers one in five Americans, are already working, according to the Government Accountability Office. Those who aren’t w...

Politics

12 h. ago Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John

Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biographyA young woman sits reading, a pot of tea to hand, her blue dress almost the only colour in a still, sandy room. Gwen John’s painting The Convalescent shows a subdued yet happy moment, for this woman is free to think and feel. That, we see in Judith Mackrell’s outstanding double biography of Gwen and her brother, was her ideal for living: to be at liberty even if that meant existing in deepest solitude.The quietness of a life spent largely alone in single rooms, reading, drawing, painting and occasionally having wild sex with the sculptor Rodin, is counterpointed in this epic narrative by the crowded, relentless, almost insanely overstimulated life of Augustus John. Lion of the arts in early 20th-century Britain, he was a bigamist, adulterer, father of so many children you lose track (so did he), and an utterly forgettable painter. Continue reading...

Politics

19 h. ago Finance experts suggest ways to teach children good money habits over the summer

The skills and knowledge gained will carry children into adulthood, experts said.

Society

3 d. ago Nurse struck off after scalding patient with boiling water and not reporting it

Mark Gavienas failed to provide adequate personal care to the patient, including by giving them the wrong amount of food and leaving them unattended in a bath, a panel found

Science

4 d. ago Hero couple walk past burning boat and save four children and two adults

Josh Hobbs and Hannah Lloyd-Hobbs both leapt in the water to save six while walking their dog near Lechlade while on holiday on the Wiltshire border

Events

5 d. ago Pregnant woman claims she was 'humiliated' after wetting herself when supermarket refused her access to the toilet

A pregnant mother, believed to be from the UK, has revealed how she was  left 'humiliated' by supermarket staff after they refused to allow her to use the toilet.

Politics

6 d. ago 'Evil' gangsters who force kids to hide drugs inside their bodies face jail

New laws will see criminals face up to 10 years behind bars if they are found to have forced children and vulnerable adults to swallow or conceal items like drugs and SIM cards in their bodies

Events

7 d. ago He had 'a duty' to provide a decent place for people to live, and he 'failed'

Adults and children were removed from 'sub-standard' and leaky housing owned by Councillor Kamran Ghafoor

Events

9 d. ago Family and two dogs saved from Edinburgh beauty spot by RNLI after being 'trapped'

Lifeboat crews from receiving a report that one adult, two children and two dogs were cut off by the tide.

Politics

9 d. ago Voices: I’m gay – I don’t want to be surrounded by children on holiday

As France is told that their adult-only hotels and restaurants are ‘violence against children’, Gary Nunn says that’s another country off his bucket-and-spade list

Politics

1 week ago NHS accused of ‘abject failure’ on ADHD as 550,000 await assessment in England

Campaigners say failings have ‘ruined lives’ after figures show up to 2.5m people in country could have conditionADHD campaigners have accused the NHS of presiding over a “widely failing system” as it emerged that as many as 2.5 million people in England could have the condition, with more than one in five waiting for an assessment.According to the first figures of their kind published by the health service, 3-4% of adults, and 5% of children and young people, in the country have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago 'Dishonest' nurse is struck off after catalogue of failings across two Ayrshire care homes

Ramani Sreekumar was subject to a disciplinary investigation at Fullarton Care Home in Irvine - but she failed to disclose this when she applied for a post at Kilmarnock-based Crossgate Care Home.

Events

1 week ago Haribo recalls sweets 'after they were found to contain CANNABIS and caused multiple adults and children to fall ill'

The substance was reportedly found after several members of the same family, both children and adults, felt unwell after eating Happy Cola F!ZZ.

Politics

1 week ago Darling review – Julie Christie’s romantic satire of swinging 60s has a terrific punch

Christie won an Oscar for her role in John Schlesinger’s film as an insouciant model caught between two lovers at the height of London’s fashion sceneSome of it feels a bit dated now, and that brittle, sophisticated chatter in the cocktail party scenes has a fingernails-down-the-blackboard screechiness that can’t have been intended at the time. But John Schlesinger’s winsome adventure from 1965 still has verve and ambition, a romantic satire of swinging London now on rerelease for its 60th anniversary.Julie Christie plays Diana Scott, a model and actor who enjoys an insouciantly upward rake’s progress in smart-set London: an innocent, almost childlike Becky Sharp-type character, for all her dissolute encounters, and abortion and divorce are notably presented without sorrowing dismay and disapproval. The wry, Oscar-winning screenplay from Frederic Raphael imports and anglicises the influence of Godard, Resnais, Varda and the French New Wave; fashion models and advertising are vitally...

Events

1 week ago Relax guidance for meat three times a week in English schools, says charity

Report finds children eat proportionally more processed meat than adults, and calls for eating of more fruit and vegetablesGuidance urging schools in England to serve children meat at least three times a week should be overhauled in order to increase the eating of vegetables and legumes, a leading charity has said.A report published by the Food Foundation has found that children eat proportionally more processed meat than adults, with more than a third (36%) of meat eaten by children coming from processed meat such as bacon, ham, and sausages, compared with 29% of adults. Continue reading...

Culture

1 week ago Pornhub and three other adult websites face EU child safety investigation

European Commission alleges the verification systems are ineffective to prevent under-18s from watchingThe EU executive has launched an investigation into four pornographic websites over alleged failure to prevent children from seeing adult content.After analysis of company policies, the European Commission accused Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos of failing to have effective age verification measures to stop minors accessing their content. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Nurse who filmed Asda customers urinating through peephole in toilets struck off

Pheddie Delos Reyes was convicted of two counts of voyeurism and one count of making an indecent image of a child after being arrested at a Wiltshire Asda supermarket

Economics

1 week ago Nurse struck off after being caught filming adults and children in supermarket toilet

Pheddie Delos Reyes spent nearly three hours inside the store's toilets.

Events

1 week ago Nurse struck off after ASDA customer makes horrifying realisation in the toilet

Pheddie Delos Reyes, a nurse who had been working for the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was caught filming around 50 people who used an Asda toilet in Swindon

Economics