2 h. ago Teacher acquitted of pressuring teenager into sexual relationship

Jonathan Coombs, 54, a performing arts teacher at Pencoedtre High School in Barry, was found not guilty of seven counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.

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5 h. ago Travellers invade school playing fields forcing furious head teacher to relocate lessons and admit it will be difficult to evict them

Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan headmaster Matt Wildsmith has cordoned off areas of the school site in Abergele, Conwy, to protect pupils and issued a warning over vehicles speeding down a road.

Society

18 h. ago School teacher slit his three sons' throats as they slept after dark secret 'exposed'

WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT: Alan Hawe committed an appalling act in 2016 when he slit the throats of his three young sons after he had brutally murdered his wife in their family sitting room in Ireland

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26 h. ago Primary school teacher sacked by head in 'revenge' for complaining about his plans to monitor lessons wins £370,000 tribunal payout

Award-winning teacher Carmen Wood-Hope has won £370,000 after 'dictatorial' head Michael Earnshaw orchestrated her sacking from The Friars Primary School in Salford.

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29 h. ago Dad stabbed three kids' windpipes so they 'wouldn't scream' after he hid dark secret

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Alan Hawe slaughtered his wife, Clodagh, and their three children, Liam, Niall and Ryan, and in a letter he left behind he spoke about being 'caught red-handed'

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30 h. ago 'People aren't listening' says husband of teacher stabbed at school

Liz Hopkin was one of three people stabbed at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, by a 13-year-old student

Culture

31 h. ago High school English teacher lets rip as she reveals technology has crippled her classroom in unfiltered exit video

A high school teacher has gone viral after announcing she's quitting the profession in a nine-minute video filmed from her empty classroom.

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45 h. ago Mother reveals chilling note she found exposing the fraudster who had been posing as a nanny to her three children

Mother-of-three Layla, who was living in County Offaly revealed she unknowingly hired serial fraudster Samantha Cookes to look after her children before she vanished when they caught onto her lies.

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4 d. ago Cometh the hour, cometh the Mandelson: UK ambassador rides crest of a trade deal | Patrick Wintour

The Labour veteran looked an awkward choice for the court of Trump, but now the president is holding his hand and complimenting his beautiful accentPeter Mandelson, with his elegant suits, smooth patter and high-end lifestyle, has always had a dark secret: an interest in the minutiae of trade deals, left over from his period as EU trade commissioner, a period when he could bore for Europe on the virtues of the Mercosur trade deal. Alongside his networking skills, and political antennae, it was his knowledge of trade that possibly persuaded Keir Starmer to take the political risk of appointing him ambassador to Washington.A pro-European social democrat with a full record of insulting remarks about Donald Trump’s racism, Lord Mandelson might not have been the obvious man to open previously closed doors in the US administration. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Paedophile teacher banned from profession after more than 120,000 child abuse images found on laptop

Matthew Smith, former deputy headteacher at Thomas’s Battersea Primary School, was jailed for 12 years

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5 d. ago Breakthrough made in cold case of California school teacher whose remains were found 100 miles apart

The first break in Kay Adams case occurred when the killer sent police a package containing some of teacher’s skeletal remains

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6 d. ago Coronation Street fans 'work out' Kit’s secret in dark twist and Sarah should be scared

Coronation Street fans are convinced they have worked out what Kit Green is hiding, as he came face to face with thug Mick Michaelis in recent scenes

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7 d. ago Maths teacher arrived at school three times over the limit in wrecked car after

Siobhan Clarke's vehicle had a cracked windscreen and deflated airbags after she crashed into the back of a colleague's vehicle before abruptly leaving the scene, a teacher misconduct panel heard.

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7 d. ago Drunk teacher arrived at school in wrecked car after crashing on way to work

Siobhan Clarke ‘seemed very muddled’ after driving her damaged car onto the school’s site, regulators were told.

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7 d. ago ‘The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under

It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own ‘addiction’?At 3.12pm on a sunny spring afternoon in St Albans, Yasser Afghen reaches for the iPhone in his jeans pocket, hoping to use the three minutes before his son emerges from his year 1 primary class to scroll through his emails. As he lifts the phone to his face, Matthew Tavender, the head teacher of Cunningham Hill school, strides across the playground towards him. Afghen smiles apologetically, puts his phone away, and spends the remaining waiting time listening to the birdsong in the trees behind the school yard.A one-storey 1960s block with 14 classrooms backing on to a playing field, Cunningham Hill primary feels like an unlikely hub for a revolution. But a year ago, Tavender and the school’s executive head, Justine Elbourne-Cload, began coordinating with the heads ...

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1 week ago Female South Carolina high school dance teacher is suspended over 'inappropriate relationship' with student

Victoria Montgomery, who has taught dance at Hilton Head Island High School since 2021, has been suspended and charged following allegations of an 'inappropriate relationship' with a student.

Society

1 week ago IT teacher banned from the classroom after refusing to delete photos of pupil ‘because they made him happy’

Nana Opong, 56, tried to conceal his conversations with the pupil by encouraging her to ‘delete everything’, and threatened to ‘throw eggs at her window’ if she tried to blackmail him

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2 w. ago John Higgins and Mark Williams are masters of snooker 'dark arts' and this is their secret to World Championship magic

With a combined age of almost 100, Higgins and Williams have been delighting fans for more than 30 years

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2 w. ago Government urged to invest £260m in teacher training to boost school standards

All teachers should be given free access to a ‘golden thread’ of core professional qualifications, a think tank and charity has suggested.

Economics

2 w. ago Florida boy, 11, dies by suicide after being bullied by female teacher who called him 'stupid,' lawsuit alleges

Louis Johnson, 11, tragically took his on life after allegedly being bullied by his fifth grade teacher Donna White at Legacy Elementary School in Ocala, Florida, according to a lawsuit.

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