24 h. ago Teaching assistant sent Snapchat message to girl saying 'I want to see that body'

Samuel Davies, who worked at Haverfordwest High sent one message saying: 'Oh hey, I am your teacher. Don't tell anyone, I would get into trouble, but I think you're really attractive'

Politics

34 h. ago Shock rise in online child sexual abuse revealed with half of offenders under 18

Online messaging app Snapchat was used in more than half of all cases recorded by police with six children being targeted every hour in the digital world by offenders often under the age of 18

Events

38 h. ago Teaching assistant banned after he told pupils he was a former military sniper and killed people

Scott Trigg-Turner was working at Bassaleg School in Newport when he made the false claims to students and colleagues

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42 h. ago Teaching assistant asked school child for photos of her body

Former Haverfordwest High teaching assistant, Samuel Davies, was escorted off school premises after two pupils in their mid-teens reported his social media messages

Culture

43 h. ago Black teaching assistant called Miss Moody wins race discrimination case after pupils and staff said they were scared of her because she had an 'angry face'

Sandra Moody was accused by students and staff of having a 'harsh' tone and being 'aggressive' towards the children at Dog Kennel Hill Primary School before she was fired, a tribunal heard.

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47 h. ago Teaching assistant banned from classrooms after telling pupils he had shot dead over 250 people as a military sniper codenamed Kill Switch and still had his gun at home

A professional standards hearing heard that Scott John Trigg-Turner, 44, told students at Bassaleg School in Newport, South Wales, that he served in the US marines under the codename 'Kill Switch'.

Events

61 h. ago UK teaching assistant banned from classrooms after telling students he killed hundreds of people

Scott Trigg-Turner made the inappropriate comments to a group of Year 8 students and made other claims about his background that colleagues became suspicious of

Events

3 d. ago Girl, 16, took own life just days after she was raped – as her brave evidence helped convict attacker

THE body of a teenage girl who took her own life was found in a river two weeks after she accused a man of raping her, an inquest has heard. Leah Bedford, 16, was found eight days after she was reported missing from a hostel in York on September 30, 2023. After Leah's body was...

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9 d. ago Teaching assistant found dead near football fields as teen son charged with 'murder'

Angela Shellis, described as "caring and committed", was found dead near football fields and her son has been charged with her murder.

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9 d. ago School to close after teaching assistant found 'murdered' and son, 18, charged

Rhyl High School is set to close for the funeral of teaching assistant Angela Shellis, 45, who was found dead near football fields in Prestatyn - her son has been charged with her murder

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1 week ago Welsh school to close after death of beloved teaching assistant

Rhyl High School will be closed for the funeral of alleged murder victim Angela Shellis, who has been described as a 'valued member of staff'

Events

2 w. ago Court order prevents LA coroner from releasing details of teen's body found in singer d4vd’s Tesla

The Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office says a court order forbids the coroner from releasing details of the investigation into the death of a teen girl whose body was found in the trunk of a car registered to the singer d4vd

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2 w. ago Brave Ukrainian girl, 6, back dancing despite missile fragments buried in body

Elina Zhukova, 6, was out with her mum when two Russian missiles dropped on her city in Ukraine - the young girl has carried on fighting despite her injuries

Events

2 w. ago Teaching assistant mum left feeling 'very lucky' after third big lottery win

Chantelle Riley, 47, was one of 18 neighbours to share the £1 million jackpot

Politics

2 w. ago Brit teaching assistant mum wins major lottery prize for third time

Teaching assistant and mum-of-four Chantelle Riley, 47, has won a major lottery prize for the third time

Politics

3 w. ago Primary school headteacher is struck off after her secret haul of alcohol was found stashed in the cupboards of her office

Leanne Grove, 44, was rumbled when a teaching assistant spotted an empty gin and tonic can in her handbag at Hazeldene School in Bedford.

Society

3 w. ago Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’

After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaignThe night before Mahmood Mamdani was expelled from Uganda in 1972, a senior professor from the university where he had been employed as a lowly teaching assistant wandered into his family home, looking for spoils. The rest of the family had already left – for the UK, the US and Tanzania – but 26-year-old Mamdani had decided to remain until the final day of the three-month period that Idi Amin, the Ugandan president, had designated for all Asians to leave the country. Passing over the furniture and other remnants of decades of family life, the professor hit upon a carton of Johnnie Walker Red, which Mamdani invited him to take home. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Linda Lusardi, 67, admits she's 'deeply embarrassed' of her iconic glamour model past

Iconic model Linda Lusardi has admitted she is 'deeply embarrassed' of the glamour modelling career that put her on the showbiz map. 

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last month Teaching assistant 'flirted with child, 12, before having sex with teen'

Teaching assistant Stephanie Jensen, 41, is alleged to have text naked photographs of herself to the teenager as well as nude snaps to his other underage friends

Society