12 May Schoolgirl said she could ‘batter’ teenage boy before fatal stabbing
The court heard pre-recorded evidence from a friend of 12-year-old Ava White....
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12 May Mother-of-four left in tears at having to choose between food or gas
Phoenix, from south-east London, said her children are being ‘denied the small things in life’ as the cost of living soars....
12 May Education Secretary says school attendance ‘non-negotiable’ in truancy crackdown
Some estimates suggest as many as 100,000 pupils are missing from school rolls....
12 May Tory MP Lee Anderson defends saying food bank users ‘cannot cook properly’
The Ashfield MP said people use food banks because they ‘cannot budget’....
12 May Over half of teachers want to adopt online exams
Exams could go ‘on demand’ rather than whole year groups taking the same paper at once, a major exam board has said....
12 May £7 million funding announced for senior mental health leads in schools
Five anti-bullying charities receive additional funding to continue work until 2023....
11 May Tory MP urged to apologise over claim food bank users ‘cannot cook properly’
Labour branded his remarks ‘beyond belief’, whilst the Liberal Democrats described them as ‘disgraceful’ and the SNP ‘reprehensible’....
11 May Tory MP claims no ‘massive use’ for foodbanks, saying people unable to cook and budget ‘properly’
‘We’ve got generation after generation who cannot cook properly, they can’t cook a meal from scratch’...
11 May Tory MP : People use food banks because they cannot budget or cook properly
Ashfield MP Lee Anderson made the remarks during a debate on the Queen’s Speech in the House of Commons....
11 May Food artist creates Alesha Dixon portrait with chocolate digestives and Hobnobs
Welsh artist Nathan Wyburn was a semi-finalist on Britain’s Got Talent in 2011....