Jon Snow
Our sexual watershed
The aftermath of the Jimmy Savile affair has seen sexual allegations fly around the corridors of almost every institution in Britain. This is a dramatic moment that will test us all.
Search results for ‘schools’
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Baby boom triggers school places crisis
Tens of thousands of extra school places are needed in England, despite more than 80,000 extra primary spaces created in the past two years.
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Heavy snow hits Spain
Central and northern parts of Spain were hit by heavy snow on Wednesday, causing traffic chaos and closing schools. More than 40 provinces were put on alert as temperatures fell to -10C.
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Massive rise in on-the-spot fines for petty offences
Eric Pickles warns councils against using residents as “cash cows” by doling out penalties for petty offences after a sixteen-fold increase in such fines.
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Syria conflict takes its toll on two million children
A leading charity warns two million Syrian children have had their lives torn apart, as the Prince of Wales, on a visit to a Jordanian refugee camp, describes their plight as “heartbreaking”.
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Freeze public spending, cut taxes – Liam Fox’s economic plan
As Liam Fox becomes the latest senior figure to offer his solution to reviving the lacklustre economy, Channel 4 News looks at some of the other suggestions for curing Britain’s woes.
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Nick Clegg: Tories are like a ‘broken shopping trolley’
Nick Clegg tells the Lib Dem Spring Conference that the option to pull UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights “won’t be on the cabinet table so long as I’m sitting round it”.
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Cost of nursery places like ‘second mortgage’
The cost of nurseries has almost doubled over the last decade, with a full-time place setting back families an average of £11,000 a year, according to a report.
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FactCheck: does the pupil premium make the grade?
Lib Dem Schools Minister David Laws says we are spending billions ‘more’ on poorer schoolchildren. But does the party’s flagship ‘pupil premium’ just plug other holes in the schools budget?
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Apprentice winner: I was an overpaid lackey
The 2010 winner of BBC TV show The Apprentice described the £100,000-a-year job she was given by Lord Sugar as that of an “overpaid lackey”, an employment tribunal hears.
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Living on a pound a day: global poverty challenge
Could you live on just a pound a day? 1.4 billion people subsist below the poverty line around the world. Now leading chefs are joining a global challenge to raise awareness – and cash.
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Drone attacks ‘traumatising a generation of children’
Drone attacks are causing serious psychological harm to children in Yemen, an expert reports, and may also be pushing young men into the arms of al-Qaeda.
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Thai teachers risking their lives to do their job
Life as a teacher in southern Thailand is becoming increasingly perilous. Asia Correspondent John Sparks has spent time with some of the brave women risking their lives.
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Topless feminists protest at Berlusconi – as Italy votes
He’s been convicted of tax fraud and is charged with paying for sex. But despite the protests Silvio Berlusconi could lead his conservative coalition back into power, writes Felicity Spector.
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Birds Eye withdraws products after horsemeat scare
Birds Eye is withdrawing three beef ready meals from sale in the UK and Ireland after tests showed 2 per cent of horse DNA in a chilli con carne dish on sale in Belgium.
