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Volunteers rehearse life-saving disaster response
Sunday 31st May 2026A simulated building collapse helps volunteers to prepare for global search and rescue missions...
Lake 'plagued by drinking youths' and 'drivers speeding outside school'
Saturday 30th May 2026A round-up of stories from local newspapers and the BBC from the past week in the West of England...
'Surreal' to reach 20 years says festival founder
Friday 29th May 2026Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse has grown every year since its launch in 2005...
Friday night's T20 Blast round-up
Friday 29th May 2026Kiran Carlson hits a century for Glamorgan as they ease past reigning T20 Blast champions Somerset with more than six overs to spare...
Nurse's plea to end 'impersonal' property bags
Wednesday 27th May 2026Debbie Williams says she had to bring her mother's possessions home in a plastic bag after she died...
National news
How a borough in Merseyside is bucking the UK's youth unemployment trend
Saturday 30th May 2026A major review has declared that Britain faces a "lost generation" - could personalised early intervention help prevent under-16s falling into the Neet trap?Read full story...
What does Neet stand for and why does the UK have so many?
Friday 29th May 2026Ministers want to tackle the high number of young people not in education, employment or training...
Sunak is right that our students need financial literacy – but that shouldn’t mean yet more maths | Simon Jenkins
Friday 29th May 2026Education should prepare young people for dealing not only with practical things such as insurance, pensions and taxes but also with tech and mental healthWhat is it about ex-ministers that they suddenly know how to run the country? Tony Blair hurls thunderbolts at his successor, Keir Starmer...
Hacking claims, mismatched answer-sheets: Controversies rock school exam in India
Thursday 28th May 2026Students blame the CBSE's newly-launched digital evaluation system used for marking this year's Grade 12 exams...
‘Standing up for our children’: parents divided over London teachers’ strikes
Thursday 28th May 2026Waltham Forest in the east of the capital has seen a wave of industrial action in schools, with more to come The gates to South Grove primary school in Walthamstow were closed to pupils last week...
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