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Nurse said dementia patient 'didn't need birthday cake'
Tuesday 8th September 2026Rossita Petkova is struck off after saying the care home resident wouldn't know it was his birthday...
Dozens of rare heritage sites to open up for free
Tuesday 8th September 2026Free events in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire take place from 11 to 20 September...
Harry Potter 'sorting hat' decides students' fate
Monday 7th September 2026Three of the blockbuster Harry Potter films were filmed at the King's School in Gloucester...
Takeover at five Gloucestershire schools as new academic year starts
Monday 7th September 2026All but one will have a new name as part of the rebrandRead full story...
Cotswolds parents 'sent warning letters' over Harry and Meghan’s British move
Wednesday 2nd September 2026Harry and Meghan's two children are reportedly set to start school in the CotswoldsRead full story...
National news
Mail on Sunday ends up funding state school scholarship via payout to MP
Friday 11th September 2026Labour’s Catherine Atkinson says she will give students £5,000 paid to her by paper that falsely accused her of concealing private school educationA new scholarship supporting state-educated students will be inadvertently funded by the Mail on Sunday (MoS), using a payout it made after being threatened with legal action by the Labour MP Catherine Atkinson...
Pupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds
Friday 11th September 2026At least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools closed or finished earlyThe gruelling heatwave that hit the UK in June caused pupils to miss more than 15m hours of lesson time as soaring temperatures forced hundreds of schools to close, according to a study...
Many teachers disagree with hardline attendance policies, report suggests
Wednesday 9th September 2026Staff at schools in England say enforcement is ‘relentless’ and occasional holiday less worrying than disengagementTeachers have so little belief in the importance of pupils’ full school attendance that they would take their own children on term time holidays if they could, staff have told a three-year research programme...
Teachers say holidays in term can be worth more than time in school
Wednesday 9th September 2026School staff tell focus groups they believe school system in England and Wales cannot deal with attendance crisisTeachers have so little belief in the importance of pupils’ full school attendance that they would take their own children on term time holidays if they could, staff have told a three-year research programme...
Babies born to anaemic mothers have smaller brains, study finds
Wednesday 9th September 2026Key regions of the brain linked to movement, learning and emotions were affected and may lead to cognitive problems Babies born to mothers with anaemia have smaller brains, particularly in key regions linked to movement, learning and the regulation of emotion, according to a study...
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