24 h. ago Fury as school board official shuts down sobbing girl as she reveals terrifying trans locker room encounter

A high school track athlete broke down in tears at a school board meeting when she recalled a 'beyond traumatizing' locker room experience.

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62 h. ago Shoreditch towers plan secures 'support in principle' from City Hall

Development would reach 12 storeys high on a disused patch of land between two busy railway lines

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67 h. ago Sadiq Khan welcomes £27m for 'skills bootcamps' aimed at 'fast

Flexible courses lasting between two weeks and three months will offer training in key sectors like the digital and creative industries

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69 h. ago Inside North Korea hell schools where teachers BEAT kids forced to worship Kim Jong

Bella Seo, 23, has revealed the harsh routine in North Korean schools after fleeing the country, which included "extremely strenuous" physical labour and daily beatings

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3 d. ago EU youth mobility scheme could save Britain from harm of Trump tariffs, Sadiq Khan says

‘If others want to rush to put up trade barriers, London will always be in favour of tearing them down’, the London Mayor wrote in The Independent

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3 d. ago Voices: Sadiq Khan: Here’s one thing I know that’ll get us closer to Europe – and a post

A new youth mobility scheme will bring the UK and the EU some much needed connection – and a shot in the arm for business, too, writes London Mayor Sadiq Khan

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3 d. ago Sadiq Khan urged to identify new allotment sites in London to enable more food

Data shared with the London Assembly reveals significant gap in stock of allotments between inner and outer London

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3 d. ago Over 10,000 London children miss out on first preference primary school amid warning over tumbling birthrate

Overall, 87.9% of pupils in London received an offer from their first choice school, equivalent to 73,481 children, data revealed on Wednesday

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3 d. ago Nationwide announces major 'first' which will benefit its 16million members

The accolade was awarded by the Money And Mental Health Policy Institute, which says the award recognises the steps Nationwide has taken to "support its customers with mental health problems"

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4 d. ago DWP to overhaul major benefit leaving millions of Brits worse off

The DWP is to overhaul how it checks breaches of Carer's Allowance rules - but claimants have been warned the scandal "is not over", despite the DWP moving to clean up Carer's Allowance

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4 d. ago Sadiq Khan confirms plan for almost 300 affordable homes next to North Middlesex University Hospital

All of the homes will be available either for social rent or shared ownership, and “will meet the highest standards of design and energy efficiency”

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4 d. ago HMRC warns millions of parents claiming Child Benefit of major change

Many people who are due benefit payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) or HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) may see their benefits paid early this week

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4 d. ago What Labour and Mayor Sadiq Khan are doing to revive London's nightlife

Ministers want to remove ‘red tape’ they believe is hampering the night-time economy — and say they ‘back the British night out’

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5 d. ago Sadiq Khan reveals which 38 schools will benefit from major eco

Sadiq Khan reveals which 38 schools will benefit from major eco-project  London Evening Standard

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5 d. ago ‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictionsThe early 1960s was, for my generation in Argentina, an age of discovery when, in our mid-teens, we learned about sex, metaphysics, the Beatles, Ezra Pound, Che Guevara, Fellini’s films, and the new literature of Latin America. In the bookstore around the corner from my school, there began to appear novels with black-and-white photographs on the dust jackets whose Spanish-language authors, while acknowledging Borges as the fons et origo of all literary endeavours, attempted to find in the 19th-century European realists new ways to depict the troubled reality of Spain and South America.One of those novels was La Ciudad y los Perros (The City and the Dogs, oddly translated into English as The Time of the Hero) by a young, unknown Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, who, in 1962, had won the recently c...

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5 d. ago The shocking response from Sadiq Khan when I asked if grooming gangs exist in London

The shocking response from Sadiq Khan when I asked if grooming gangs exist in London - Susan Hall  GB News

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6 d. ago Sadiq Khan reveals which London schools will benefit from project to cut carbon and energy bills

City Hall estimates scheme will allow schools to each save an average of almost £15,000 on their energy bills

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6 d. ago Khan reveals which London schools will benefit from project to cut carbon and energy bills

City Hall estimates scheme will allow schools to each save an average of almost £15,000 on their energy bills

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8 d. ago Met Office weather maps reveal the best day to take a trip during the Easter school holidays

There is one day that looks to be the warmest, and another that may require an umbrella

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8 d. ago Michael Gove's son Will reveals he struggled to make friends at school and was REJECTED from multiple jobs due to his high

Hosted by the Reverend Richard Coles, 'The Apple & The Tree' pits parents against their adult children to ask questions about their shared family history they've always wanted answered.

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