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Girl hopes to raise final funds for zebra crossing
Thursday 5th March 2026Amalie hopes to raise the final £7,000 needed for the crossing outside a school in Leckhampton...
Tewkesbury Academy teachers continue to strike after claims pupils 'bully' the staff
Thursday 5th March 2026'There is the feeling that people - staff - are being bullied and intimidated at the school'Read full story...
Schools celebrate World Book Day in costume
Thursday 5th March 2026The annual event aims to "encourage a lifelong love of reading" among children...
Young people share their struggle to work and learn
Tuesday 3rd March 2026We spoke to the latest cohort of a course run by The King's Trust and Young Gloucestershire...
Unlikely Glastonbury star takes Primary School Bangers on UK tour
Saturday 21st February 2026There are several chances to catch his popular tourRead full story...
Kelly Holmes surprises people at town's Parkrun
Saturday 21st February 2026Double Olympic gold medallist walks and jogs 5km course as she recovers from an injury...
Teacher at £25k-a-year private school banned from classroom
Wednesday 18th February 2026He also lied about his education and his ageRead full story...
M5 park-and-ride, 1,700 homes and school planned for Cheltenham outskirts
Wednesday 18th February 2026Developers say it will provide a sustainable new £1bn gateway for Northwest CheltenhamRead full story...
Plans unveiled for 1,700 new homes near the M5
Wednesday 18th February 2026Developers Bloor Homes also plan to build a new primary school and a park and ride...
Schoolgirl's zebra crossing campaign nears goal
Tuesday 17th February 2026Amalie, 12, and her dad Paul got local authorities to agree to fund £68,000 for the crossing...
Tewkesbury teacher speaks out as more strikes confirmed at secondary school
Monday 16th February 2026Some staff feel "bullied and intimidated"Read full story...
Homes approved despite flood and sewage concerns
Monday 16th February 2026Eagle One Homes has been granted outline permission for the new homes in Willersey, Gloucestershire...
Teen who killed two in crash filmed herself speeding on Snapchat
Saturday 14th February 2026Taxi driver Octavian Codreanu and his passenger Moyra Whelan died in a four-vehicle pile-up...
Teacher at Gloucestershire girls' school spent night in former pupil's uni accommodation
Friday 13th February 2026He stayed in her bed just weeks after she started universityRead full story...
Men leave restaurant without paying £329 bill
Thursday 12th February 2026Police say the men each ordered a three-course meal on New Year's Eve but left without paying...
Ex-Gloucester-Hartpury title winner Lake announces retirement at 35
Wednesday 11th February 2026Kerin Lake says it has been an honour to wear the Welsh jersey and thanks her friends and family for their support...
Festival announces line-up amid expansion plans
Tuesday 10th February 2026The festival at Cheltenham Racecourse plans to expand in celebration of its 20th year...
'Anxious' residents prepare for more flooding
Monday 9th February 2026Heavy downpours are set to batter Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire throughout Monday...
Teachers strike over 'abusive' pupil behaviour
Wednesday 4th February 2026The strike has been called "extremely rare" as teachers ask the school to stamp out bad behaviour...
Cotswolds parking scheme given £20k funding
Tuesday 3rd February 2026Three transport projects in an area covering Gloucestershire to Dorset are given a combined £60k...
Penguins named after Only Fools and Horses trio
Monday 26th January 2026Birdland hopes the names of the Humboldt penguins will strike up meaningful conversations...
Private school to close after 106 years
Friday 23rd January 2026The school in the Cotswolds will close this summer due to falling pupil numbers...
100-year-old Rendcomb College announces closure at the end of the school year
Friday 23rd January 2026It says it is no longer financially viableRead full story...
'Patients cleaned in corridors as staff struggle'
Thursday 22nd January 2026A critical care nurse says he worries corridor care is becoming "normalised" in the NHS...
'Drug-user turns life around' and 'school standoff'
Saturday 17th January 2026A round-up of stories from local newspapers and the BBC from the past week in the West of England...
National news archive
‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education
Friday 6th March 2026Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New CollegeIt took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it...
Allergy training to become compulsory in schools in England
Thursday 5th March 2026The plans, due to come into force in September, follow support for Benedict's Law, a campaign to improve allergy safety in schools...
RFK Jr urges medical schools to increase nutrition education training
Thursday 5th March 2026As part of his Maha agenda, health secretary wants schools to incorporate 40 hours of instructionSign up to the Breaking News US newsletter emailHealth secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr unveiled a new effort on Thursday aimed at increasing the amount of nutrition education taught in medical schools...
Extra stress or a bit of fun? Teachers and parents discuss World Book Day
Thursday 5th March 2026As children dress up in UK and Ireland on Thursday, not everyone is on the same page over event’s pros and consThursday is World Book Day in the UK and Ireland, with many primary schools encouraging children to take part...
Pupils told to remove blazers to prevent disorder
Wednesday 4th March 2026Posts encouraging fights between different schools are emerging on social media...
What does Neet stand for and how many are there in the UK?
Wednesday 4th March 2026Ministers want to tackle the high number of young people not in education, employment or training...
Pupils told to remove blazers to prevent violence
Wednesday 4th March 2026Posts encouraging fights between different schools are emerging on social media...
Schools in England sidelining dressing-up for World Book Day, MPs hear
Tuesday 3rd March 2026Literacy experts say move comes over cost concerns and fears costumes can detract from reading for pleasureSchools in England are moving away from pupils dressing up as their favourite literary characters for World Book Day, with experts telling MPs they feared the cost of costumes undermined efforts to increase reading for pleasure...
Telegraph censured for story of fictional family’s struggle to pay school fees
Tuesday 3rd March 2026Watchdog upholds complaint it breached code with article about impact of VAT on banker who did not existThe Telegraph has been reprimanded by a press standards watchdog after it published an entirely fabricated story about a wealthy banker complaining of the impact of school fee increases...
Schools are using AI counselors to track students’ mental health. Is it safe?
Tuesday 3rd March 2026As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to chatbots ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human• Produced in partnership with EdSurgeThe alert came around 7pm...
Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI
Tuesday 3rd March 2026I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time...
'Deeply misleading' school talks compared student loans to £30 phone contracts
Tuesday 3rd March 2026Graduates hired to deliver the presentations a decade ago were told to avoid using words like "debt"...
Cheating machine or powerful assistant? The AI anxieties of a trainee teacher
Tuesday 3rd March 2026I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time...
Parents of nursery abuse victims to meet minister
Tuesday 3rd March 2026Parents of Vincent Chan's victims will meet the education secretary to press her on safeguarding...
The Guardian view on schools: Send reforms aside, the government’s white paper lacks focus | Editorial
Monday 2nd March 2026Plans to resurrect the children’s services decimated by austerity are appealing...
Learn With Ms Rachel review – undoubtedly the TV event of the year for millions of us
Monday 2nd March 2026The queen of children’s edutainment is back after four very long months, with her most extraordinary, envelope-pushing and moving special yet...
Nine in 10 pupils offered first-choice school
Monday 2nd March 2026Pupils across the country are finding out which secondary school they have been allocated...
Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones
Monday 2nd March 2026The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’...
‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda
Monday 2nd March 2026Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework...
UK teachers and parents urged to talk to children about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes
Sunday 1st March 2026Experts say trusted adults must be brave and discuss issue or risk children looking for answers from unsafe sourcesTeachers and parents in the UK need to be brave and discuss Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes with children and young people or risk them looking for answers from dubious or dangerous sources, according to experts who will host the first public seminar for schools on the issue...
ICE has detained this high schooler for 10 months. Here’s what he and his classmates want you to know
Sunday 1st March 2026Dylan Lopez Contreras, a senior at Ellis Prep academy, was taken by ICE in May...
The National Year of Reading celebrates the ‘joy’ of books. But let’s not forget they can also be deeply troubling, too | Charlotte Higgins
Saturday 28th February 2026Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful...
Private schools lose legal challenge over VAT changes
Friday 27th February 2026A group of low-fee paying private schools have challenged the government's removal of the VAT exemption...
Appeal court rejects latest challenge to adding VAT to UK private school fees
Friday 27th February 2026Parents opposing plans told they can home school their children if they object to sending them to state schoolsThe court of appeal has rejected the latest challenge to the addition of VAT to private school fees, telling parents they have the option to home school their children if they object to sending them to state schools...
TikTok and Snapchat posts urge London pupils to join ‘school wars’ fights
Thursday 26th February 2026Met urges pupils not to get involved and asks platforms to ban accounts promoting ‘fights’ with images of weaponsPupils as young as 11 are being encouraged to join in school fights in posts on TikTok and Snapchat, prompting police to urge children not to get involved...
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