12 h. ago Disabled child, eight, is barred from summer camp after mother's gender

She had applied for her son, who has several severe physical defects, to go to charity Over The Wall's trip from July 6 to 8 at Strathallan School in Perthshire, Scotland.

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13 h. ago I went to an adult summer camp for women who want to make friends — and it’s worth the $900 price tag

With adult summer camps on the rise, Brittany Miller recounts her experience at Camp Social — the viral, women-only retreat founded by influencer Liv Schreiber

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19 h. ago Days without war: Ukrainian children enjoy time at summer camp – photo essay

While missiles and drones are exploding in Kyiv during the bloodiest attack of the year, a mountain retreat provides a brief, peaceful escape from the chaosOn the last day of July, Russia launched an attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, the bloodiest one this year: 300 drones and eight missiles killed 31 people. On the same day, 700km (435 miles) away in a camp near the city of Svalyava in the Carpathian mountains, 30 children are roasting marshmallows. Most of the children live in Kyiv, but for now, they are at the Zefir summer camp.Sofia, 15, from Uzhhorod, dresses up for a theatre performance. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Pensioner charged with child cruelty offences after boys fell ill at summer camp appears in court

Jon Ruben, 76, appeared at Leicester Crown Court for a brief hearing on Friday

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59 h. ago Retired vet 'will face more charges' after he was accused of lacing summer camp boys' sweets with sedatives

Jon Ruben, 76, has been charged with child cruelty offences relating to three boys, but was not asked to enter any pleas during his brief 15-minute hearing at Leicester Crown Court this morning.

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60 h. ago Pensioner accused of lacing summer camp boys' sweets with sedatives to face January trial on child cruelty charges

Jon Ruben, of Wayte Court in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, is charged with child cruelty offences relating to three boys but was not asked to enter any pleas this morning.

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61 h. ago Trial date set for man, 76, accused of giving children sweets laced with sedatives at summer camp

Jon Ruben, 76, is accused of giving children with sweets laced with sedatives

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61 h. ago Trial date set for man accused over ‘sweets laced with sedatives’ at summer camp

The court heard that Jon Ruben’s trial is expected to last four weeks.

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68 h. ago Man, 76, to face court over ‘sweets laced with sedatives’ at summer camp

Children became unwell at the camp in July

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3 d. ago Pensioner to enter pleas over ‘sweets laced with sedatives’ at summer camp

Eight children and one adult were taken to hospital as a precaution after the incident in Stathern, Leicestershire.

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4 d. ago Clooney summer camp! Amal, George and their twins Ella and Alexander welcome a host of stars to $100m Lake Como villa

George, 64, Amal, 47, and their eight-year-old twins Ella and Alexander joined a mixed group of friends including Happy Gilmore star Adam Sandler on Lake Como

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1 week ago Parents of kids swept away in Texas floods beg lawmakers to protect future campers

Parents of the 27 campers and counselors killed when floodwaters rushed through a girl's summer camp in the Texas Hill Country pleaded with lawmakers Wednesday to pass a bill that would boost camp safety

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2 w. ago Charlie Brown and Snoopy offer an animated 'Peanuts' musical about summer camp

Charlie Brown and Snoopy are heading to sleepaway camp in a new Apple TV+ special

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2 w. ago The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar review – whimsical fantasy in a kingdom long, long ago

In this first adult novel from the acclaimed children’s author, an immortal magician returns to tell the story of a royal court where he cast his spells some 500 years beforeThe American author Louis Sachar’s most celebrated book, 1998’s YA novel Holes, was a huge word-of-mouth success on both sides of the Atlantic. Its short, punchy chapters tell the story of plump, hapless Stanley Yelnats, sent to a summer camp for wayward boys, where a terrifying Warden has peculiar ideas about character reformation. The 5ft-deep holes the boys are required to dig turn out to have a surprising purpose. Shifts of time, register and perspective render a simple premise mesmerisingly intricate. It has peril, love, crime, wickedness, redemption and friendship in, well, spades.A quarter of a century later, Sachar has written his first supposedly adult novel, in which many of the same ingredients reappear. A man “dressed like a typical American tourist”, but with an odd habit of storing cake crumbs in t...

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2 w. ago Welsh villagers abuse charity workers at Scout camp after mistaking them for migrants because they couldn't understand their Scottish accents

Furious Welsh villagers abused a group of charity workers visiting Newbridge online, mistaking them for asylum seekers after being unable to understand their Scottish accents.

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2 w. ago Angry Welsh villagers abuse group of charity workers at Scout summer camp

Furious Welsh villagers abused a group of charity workers visiting Newbridge online, mistaking them for asylum seekers after being unable to understand their Scottish accents.

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3 w. ago British woman is trapped in US after breaking her back in horror fall at a summer camp and insurance firm 'refused to pay for her flight home'

Charlotte Hollins Anderton, from Abergele, north Wales, endured the 'life changing accident' while working her dream job as a summer camp leader in the US.

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4 w. ago At this summer camp run by grandmas, kids learn cooking skills and life advice

At a summer camp in Fullerton, California, grandmas are in charge

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4 w. ago Man in court accused of lacing sweets with sedatives before summer camp children fell ill

Jon Ruben, 76, remanded in custody in connection with the incident at Stathern Lodge in LeicestershireA man has been remanded in custody charged with child cruelty offences after children became unwell at a summer camp in Leicestershire.Jon Ruben, 76, appeared in Leicester magistrates court after being charged with three counts of wilfully assaulting, ill-treating, neglecting, abandoning or exposing children in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or injury to health, where he was told he would be remanded in custody and appear at Leicester crown court on Friday 29 August. Continue reading...

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