9 h. ago Parents fume as school will hand out detentions for lateness despite roadworks chaos

Streets around The North School in Ashford, Kent, are being plagued by roadworks but any pupils who arrive after 8.40am will still be punished regardless of the circumstances, it's said

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3 d. ago ‘Trump doesn’t understand who the aggressor is’: fatigue and anger in Odesa

Russian attacks on Ukrainian city that was initially spared worst have increased since Washington-Moscow detenteRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesOlena Palash heard a loud buzzing above her flat in the Ukrainian port of Odesa. It was 11pm. First one drone, and another, then more. Soon afterwards, one of the Shaheeds crashed into the children’s clinic where she works. An explosion shredded the building’s facade. The metal covering of a car park was remade into a spaghetti-like jumble. Another drone smashed into a nearby kindergarten.The attack on 18 February knocked out a substation and plunged some of the city into darkness. Four people were injured, including a 10-year-old girl, and 80,000 were left without heat. Russia’s air war in the skies above Ukraine is nothing new. But since negotiations began between the US and Russia – talks from which Kyiv has been excluded – the raids have got dramatically worse. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Dumfries roadworks chaos set to continue as 'operational difficulties' delay completion

SGN hopes to finish the work at the Three Road Ends junction by March 10 - rather than February 23 as originally planned.

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8 d. ago Chaos as roadworks gridlock sees drivers head wrong way down the road

Police had to intervene to deal with the issue residents have described as 'carnage' and 'an accident waiting to happen'

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8 d. ago Pupils at Wishaw school hand out sizeable donation to foodbank

Pupils at Netherton Primary School have donated goods to Food For Thought, based at Motherwell’s Ebenezer Hall.

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1 week ago Horror as 'boy's severed hand' is dropped from sky by bird in primary school playground

The child's hand was found after it dropped on the playground of over Our Lady Immaculate school in Darndale, north Dublin last Friday morning, Irish Police believe.

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1 week ago CCTV shows bird dropped human remains at Dublin school in 'disturbing' investigation

Human remains were found at Our Lady Immaculate Junior School in Darndale, Dublin, today - Gardaí now believe a bird was responsible for dropping the hand in the school premises

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2 w. ago A new start after 60: I got divorced, became a lawyer – and began fighting for other women

After a spell as Isabella Rossellini’s hand model, Elizabeth Barbour went to law school at 54. Now, she is working on 50 domestic violence cases and says her career is a privilege, not a jobElizabeth Barbour didn’t start studying law until she was 54 and had a school-age daughter. “But once I decide to do something, I’m hard to stop,” she says.Law is an atypical later-life career choice. It certainly bore no connection to Barbour’s first and second vocations, as a hand model and then a real-estate developer. “Law school was hard. It was disheartening,” she says. “I was literally everybody’s mother’s age. I didn’t have a cohort of friends. I was like a foreigner. I felt really isolated. But three years of being pummelled with all this information really did expand my bandwidth.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago UK must act more promptly over latest Iran detentions, says Richard Ratcliffe

Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe expresses concern for Craig and Lindsay Foreman who were held in JanuaryThe husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has called on ministers to act “more promptly” than they did to help free his wife, after Iran detained a British couple on a motorcycle trip.Richard Ratcliffe, whose wife was freed in 2022 after five years in a Tehran prison, expressed fears that the couple would now face the “brutal theatre” of court process to “get the government’s attention”. Continue reading...

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