22 h. ago ‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age

They are debilitating afflictions that people don’t know about, don’t understand and struggle to pronounce. Now health workers fear they will surge in Africa as USAID-funded drug distribution programmes are cutSince 2013, for around two weeks each year, Sulaiman Tarawallie has pulled on his community drug distributor (CDD) uniform and gone from household to household in his remote farming community to hand out medication to fight river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. Once he has completed the rounds of his village, he heads further out to take the drugs to even more remote homes – keeping the diseases that had plagued generations at bay with a handful of pills.But this year, Tarawallie, who works as a community health worker and primary school teacher in Sierra Leone’s northern Bombali district, will not be making his annual trip. Continue reading...

Politics

68 h. ago 'I quit my stressful job as a teacher and now work half the hours but earn twice as much'

Harriet Bermingham, 31, from Worsley, Salford, left her role as a primary school teacher and now has 85 children on her books, earning twice what she did before for half the amount of hours

Society

9 d. ago Primary school teacher posed as girl to trick boys into sending him naked pics

Daniel Fuge threw himself towards a train after being found to have incited boys to send naked pictures and video

Politics

1 week ago Driver, 50, killed in 'road rage attack' was 'kind and inspirational' primary school teacher who asked pupils to help him propose to his wife

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Bowles, 50, died after police were called to reports of two motorists fighting close to a roundabout, in Oldham, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday evening.

Events

1 week ago Primary school teacher who sued after colleague imitated famous Lilt catchphrase in Caribbean accent loses race discrimination claim

The tribunal in south London heard a case brought by Ikhals Yousif after her dismissal from Ashley Church of England Primary School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

Sport

2 w. ago Drunk primary school teacher didn't know which child she was giving class award to

'I felt [children] weren't safe with her'

Society

2 w. ago Teacher who downed bottle of wine and turned up to primary school assembly drunk is banned from classroom

Ashley Atkin came to Horn’s Mill Primary School in Cheshire with a ‘pungent’ smell of alcohol on her

Events

2 w. ago Primary teacher downed bottle of wine and showed up to school assembly drunk

Primary school teacher Ashley Atkin, 38, was so intoxicated that she was unable to present an award to a pupil during an assembly.

Culture

2 w. ago Primary school teacher who turned up to class so drunk she struggled to walk and forgot who won star prize is banned from classroom

Ashley Atkin (pictured), 38, was just weeks into a new job at Horn's Mill primary school in Helsby, Cheshire, when colleagues noticed that she smelled of alcohol.

Events

2 w. ago Primary school teacher banned from classroom after sick chats with '14

The PSHE teacher was snared by undercover cops posing as a teenager.

Events

2 w. ago Primary school teacher barred for life after sick sex chats with children

Alan Harbottle has been barred from teaching for life after being caught in a police sting operation

Society

3 w. ago I moved to Texas to be with a world famous musician I'd only met twice: Here's how my surreal life came crashing down

It sounds like a far-fetched Hollywood romcom. Impoverished primary school teacher from Hampshire, England, marries a handsome-yet-humble, world-famous musician...

Events

3 w. ago Primary school teacher who tried to smuggle £17k of drugs into prison stashed inside legal letters is banned for life

Wembley primary school teacher Vivienne Williams posted a number of fake packages soaked in the Class B drug Spice, that were destined for prisons in Nottingham, Cardiff and Wandsworth.

Events