9 h. ago Second private school in Wales faces closure as pupil numbers fall

Oakleigh House School in Swansea proposed to shut its doors after more than a century

Politics

52 h. ago Three pupils left needing surgery after being electrocuted at private Millfield School

Three schoolboys were rushed to hospital after they were electrocuted at private boarding school, Millfield School in Somerset, as other kids were offered counselling

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4 d. ago Danny Dyer was so skint when BBC offered him EastEnders role that he 'couldn't even afford to buy the execs a lager'

Things got so bad for the actor, 47, that he couldn't even afford to buy BBC execs a lager when they met him to offer him a role in their flagship soap in 2013.

Politics

5 d. ago Drivers warned of road and lane closures in Wales over bank holiday weekend

There are a number of potential disruptions you should try to avoid this weekend

Events

6 d. ago ‘A natural storyteller’: Jane Gardam remembered by Tessa Hadley

The author of Late in the Day pays tribute to the exuberantly inventive Yorkshire-born novelist who has died aged 96Jane Gardam, who has died aged 96, was such an exuberant, inventive writer. It’s the sheer energy of the voice you notice first, picking up one of her books from the shelf; she had the easy authority of a natural storyteller. Her first book, A Long Way from Verona, was written for children and published in 1971, when she was in her early 40s. “I ought to tell you at the beginning,” announces Jessica Vye in the first sentence, “that I am not quite normal, having had a violent experience at the age of nine.” In the book, clever bookish girls, at a private school in wartime, are hungry for adventures and also for tea with cress sandwiches and chocolate eclairs; they belong to that class beloved of British fiction in the old days, educated people fallen on hard times. Jessica’s father has left his job as a schoolmaster to follow his vocation as a poor curate. The Summer Af...

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1 week ago M4 closures set to cause misery as warning issued to drivers

Several spots on the network could be affected this week with scheduled repair works

Events

1 week ago Class act: can Harrow sell an elitist British boarding school fantasy to New Yorkers?

The private school will open its first US campus in Long Island. Will it assimilate Americans into the upper crust – or is it more about branding?This fall, the British boarding school Harrow will open its first offshoot in the US: a lush 170-acre waterfront campus in Long Island. For $75,000 a year, parents can wave away their children to the prestigiously named school, renowned for its centuries-old traditions (such as calling teachers “beaks” and bad behaviour “skew”). Classes will take place in the Bourne mansion, the opulent former home of a wealthy American businessman, around which modern facilities will be built.A shiny teaser video paints an idyllic picture of an anglophile life at Harrow New York. “The school is like an oasis,” says Nick Page, former deputy head of Harrow UK, as drone footage pans out over pristine lawns and lakes, where ducklings and deer roam wild. “Yet so close to this huge metropolis of New York.” (The new school is almost equidistant from New York Cit...

Culture

1 week ago Teacher who sent 'inherently sexual' selfies to pupil banned from classroom

Megan Lanning, 36, has been banned from teaching for life after sending nude selfies to a pupil she confessed having 'inappropriate feelings' for at a £45,000 private school

Society

2 w. ago French PM calls for crackdown on knife crime after fatal high school stabbing

Boy, 15, arrested after at least one child killed and three injured at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school in NantesThe French prime minister, François Bayrou, has called for a crackdown on teenage knife crime after a high-school student stabbed four other children at his school, killing at least one and injuring the others before being arrested.The 15-year-old reportedly attacked fellow students with a knife during lunch break on Thursday at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides secondary school in the city of Nantes on the Atlantic coast. The attack took place at around 12.30pm (11.30am BST), before teachers overpowered the boy. One female student was killed. At least one other student is in a critical condition in hospital. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago School knife rampage in France leaves one girl dead and three other children fighting for life

A student armed with a knife launched the attack at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Doulon area of Nantes on Thursday afternoon.

Events

2 w. ago One person dead in France school stabbing with at least three others injured

The horror unfolded at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides private school in Nantes before the alleged attacker was restrained by a member of staff until police arrived.

Events

2 w. ago Student killed and three injured in stabbing attack at French high school

Fifteen-year-old student arrested after incident at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school near NantesA student at a French high school stabbed four other students at his school on Thursday, killing at least one and injuring three others before being arrested, police said.The circumstances of the attack were not immediately clear. A national police official said it had taken place at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Nantes on the Atlantic coast. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago School knife rampage in France leaves one student dead and multiple children seriously injured

A student armed with a knife launched the attack at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Doulon area of Nantes on Thursday afternoon.

Events

2 w. ago Ayrshire school claims VAT on private school fees is a 'disincentive' to parents

Wellington School in Ayr, Ayrshire's only private school, returned to "a relatively small" profit the year before VAT was introduced on school fees.

Politics

2 w. ago Nantes school stabbing: One dead and at least three reported injured in France attack

The attack took place at the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides private school in Nantes, France this morning saw several people reportedly stabbed by a fellow pupil and one has died

Events

2 w. ago Danny Dyer says despite him being 'proudly working class' his kids have NEVER travelled on a bus and always go 'door to door' in a £200K Bentley

The actor, 47, gets a grilling about claims he sent his son to private school in ITV 's new show The Assembly.

Economics

2 w. ago French PM’s daughter says she was brutally beaten at scandal

François Bayrou faces questions over what he knew about school at centre of allegations of decades of abuseThe daughter of the French prime minister, François Bayrou, has said she was brutally beaten at a private Catholic school at the centre of a growing sexual abuse scandal that has shocked France.Hélène Perlant, 53, told Paris Match that a senior priest at Notre-Dame de Bétharram beat her in front of her peers during a summer camp in the 1980s, when she was 14, but said she had never told Bayrou. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Fashion high street store to shut as other retailers close across the UK

One British clothing brand is closing down a city centre store that opened in 2012

Politics

3 w. ago The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian ArgentinaHere is a well-meaning, awkward tonal jumble of a movie, based on the bestselling memoir by former teacher Tom Michell; it is a quirky true-story heart warmer, in which an adorable penguin is apparently supposed to redeem not merely the human hero’s personal heartbreak but maybe even the agony of Argentina during the 70s junta. It stars Steve Coogan, who has often in the past shown brilliant technique as a straight actor, and in Philomena with Judi Dench proved he is perfectly capable of carrying an un-ironised emotional story. But his performance here is bafflingly underpowered and opaque, as if he is slightly perplexed by the script he’s been given.Coogan plays Tom, who takes a job in Peronist Argentina in 1976, teaching English at a stuffy private school for the sons of wealthy expatriates, and is wary of the overbearing headte...

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3 w. ago Mobile phone ban helps top private school become first in Scotland to win prestigious status

Famous boarding school now drawing up plans to become a ‘research hub’

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