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8 October 2024

  • Young children painting during an art lesson in a reception class

    School starters born during pandemic lack communication skills, Ofsted says

    English primary schools having to help infants catch up on speech and language to cope with lessons
  • Baby

    Deaths outstrip births in UK for first time in nearly 50 years

    Excluding the Covid pandemic, ONS figures show 16,300 fewer births than deaths, not seen since 1970s ‘baby bust’

    • Picnicking on Dartmoor is trespassing, landowner’s lawyers tell court

    • Special needs funding claims in English schools ‘increasingly being refused’

    • Building HS2 to Euston and Crewe could pay for itself, analysis finds

7 October 2024

  • David Carrick.

    Former Met police officer David Carrick charged with rape and indecent assault

  • A woman surrounded by photographers

    Rebekah Vardy challenges Coleen Rooney’s £1.8m legal costs for libel trial

  • A Post Office letter box in a stone wall

    Woman has stunt rider job application returned 48 years later

  • Stephen Cox was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault

    Berkshire GP jailed over indecent assaults against seven female patients

  • GP admits attempted murder of mother’s partner with fake Covid jab

  • How the excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre has changed stage history

  • Address ‘non-existent’ severe ME care or risk further deaths, UK health minister told

  • Warnings of thunderstorms and heavy rain in southern England and Wales

  • Salmon numbers in England and Wales last year were lowest on record

6 October 2024

  • The shadow of a child playing on a swing.

    English council may ask parents of children taken into care to pay half of costs

    Derbyshire authority proposes asking for up to £113 a week for children in care under voluntary arrangements
  • A blue van on the set of Anemone is seen with a parking ticket on its windscreen.

    Traffic wardens issue tickets for vehicles on Daniel Day-Lewis film set

    Tickets placed on 1980s prop vehicles after Chester council refused to close road for filming of actor’s comeback movie
  • Researchers found that 48 out of 53 children’s homes closed by Ofsted between 2014 and 2023 were run for profit.

    Private firms ran almost all care homes forced to shut for breaches in England

    Study finds more than 90% of facilities for children and 98% of those for adults that were closed down were run for profit

5 October 2024

  • An XL bully dog.

    Lancashire police apologise after XL bully put down due to ‘administration error’

    Police apologise after seized dog, named Bruno, euthanised while owners were applying for exemption to keep him
  • A person in a hospital bed

    ‘Prognosis is not an exact science’: NHS doctors consider practicalities of assisted dying

    Questions raised over potential eligibility, while body representing palliative care staff opposes law change
  • A dentist looking at a patient’s teeth.

    Residential school students in England to get free dental, eyesight and hearing checks

    NHS checks are expected to reach about 18,000 students with disabilities and additional needs
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