[ad_1] 6 hours agoAlix Hattenstone,BBC EnglandKim/BBCMillie helps her mum Kim run a nature group A BBC investigation has found the number of children moving to home education in the UK is at its highest level since the pandemic.Councils received almost 50,000 notifications in the last academic year from families wanting to take their children out of school. This does not include children already being home educated.The latest government figures suggest
[ad_1] The Conservative Party's latest attempt to appeal to voters makes the front page of many of the papers on Monday. The Times reports that Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch will "accuse "sexual" predators and "activist" campaign groups of abusing Britain's equalities laws" in a speech to be delivered on Monday. Pictured alongside the report is the late rugby league player Rob Burrow, who died on Sunday after suffering from motor
[ad_1] Getty imagesThere's "very real potential for avoidable and serious harm" being caused, the health trust chairs saidCutbacks in Northern Ireland's health service could have "catastrophic impacts", the chairs of the health and social care trusts have warned.In a joint statement, the heads of NI's six trusts said they are "deeply concerned at the financial outlook for the frontline services" their organisations deliver."It is our duty to warn of the
[ad_1] 9 hours agoChris Andrews and Catherine Morrison,BBC News NIBBCAda Chell lost her suitor Robert Nicholson who died during the warThe events of D-Day and the spirit of the war effort are best told by those who lived through it.With each passing year such first-hand accounts become more precious to record as photographs, mementos and stories are passed on for future generations.To mark the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Normandy
[ad_1] 14 hours agoSamantha Noble,BBC News, East MidlandsNottinghamshire PoliceJonathan Blundell broke into a Wetherspoons pub, in NottinghamA man who stole three children's cancer charity collections in a pub break-in and threatened the manager has been sentenced. Police said Jonathan Blundell broke into Lloyds No.1 bar, in Carlton Street, Nottingham, at about 02:30 BST on Wednesday.The manager of the Wetherspoons pub pleaded with him to leave the boxes – but Blundell
[ad_1] Burrow married his childhood sweetheart Lindsey in 2006 and the couple had three children together."He always says, 'find somebody else, you're still young'," Lindsey said in the documentary, discussing the prospect of a future without her husband. "There will never be anyone else. No-one can ever take Rob's place."His parents, Geoff and Irene, would help to feed Burrow.Alongside looking after children Macy, Maya and Jackson and working as a
[ad_1] A 16-year-old boy has died in hospital two days after being seriously injured during a disturbance in the Greenfield area of Glasgow.He has been named by police as Kory McCrimmon from Glasgow.Emergency services were called to Greenfield Park in Eskbank Street at about 20:15 on Friday. The victim was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he died on Sunday afternoon.A 13-year-old boy has been arrested and charged
[ad_1] PA MediaThe UK's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was among attendees at the event on SundayThousands of people have marched through London to ask for hostages being held by Hamas to be brought home.The 'United We Bring Them Home' march on Sunday began at Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn and ended in Whitehall, central London.Families of Israeli hostages who attended on Sunday called for all parties in the ongoing Israel-Palestinian
[ad_1] A service has been held to remember the 29 people killed in an RAF Chinook helicopter crash on the 30th anniversary of the disaster.The helicopter carrying leading security personnel crashed on the Mull of Kintyre peninsula on the west coast of Scotland on 2 June 1994.The aircraft was on its way from RAF Aldergrove near Belfast to a security conference in Inverness when it crashed into a hillside in
[ad_1] A herd of cows on Steart Marshes in Somerset have been fitted with GPS collars which act as a virtual fence.The collars play a tune to redirect the cattle when they come close to a boundary, and then give them a gentle shock if they do not divert.They are used to keep the cows safe from hazards such as rising tides and ravines. The collars also direct the animals
