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'Hefty school fines' and 'new bellringers sought'
Saturday 26th September 2026A round-up of stories from local newspapers and the BBC from the past week in the West of England...
Harry and Meghan can 'limit chaos' of Cotswolds move on kids with certain steps
Saturday 26th September 2026Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been given expert advice on how to 'minimise the disruption' of their Cotswolds move for their children Archie and Lilibet, who were forced to change schools just two days into termRead full story...
Elms Park: Plans submitted for 4,115 homes on outskirts of Cheltenham
Friday 25th September 2026Elms Park would include thousands of homes, as well as schools and a transport hubRead full story...
Harry and Meghan's 'totally unnecessary order' to school parents about Archie and Lilibet
Wednesday 23rd September 2026Lilibet and Archie have been relocated to a new school after being pulled from the first amid security concernsRead full story...
GPs are prescribing watching football as an antidote to depression
Monday 21st September 2026Football is being used to help people experiencing low mood, loneliness and other mental health challenges...
Football on prescription is boosting mental health
Monday 21st September 2026Football is being used to help people experiencing low mood, loneliness and other mental health challenges...
Football prescribed to tackle mental health issues
Monday 21st September 2026Football is being used to help people experiencing low mood, loneliness and other mental health challenges...
Gloucestershire's 97-year-old wingwalker raises funds for Cheltenham stroke ward
Friday 18th September 2026Former nurse Betty Bromage donates to Cheltenham General, Steve Knibbs reportsRead full story...
Mental health bench will be a 'community effort'
Wednesday 16th September 2026The bench has been created by volunteers in memory of a "well loved" man from Tetbury...
Meghan Markle phone number leaks from school WhatsApp group chat sparking security concern
Wednesday 16th September 2026The Duke and Duchess of Sussex recently moved back to the UKRead full story...
Harry and Meghan to have security review and kids change Cotswold school
Tuesday 15th September 2026It is understood that the couple's private security team had cited concerns about difficulties in making the school run route secure...
Harry and Meghan to have security review and kids change Cotswold school
Monday 14th September 2026The level of police protection they need and potential dangers they face are to be reviewed...
Nurse running 380 miles for critically ill babies
Sunday 13th September 2026Patrick Turton is running from Truro to Bristol, stopping at baby units across the South West...
AD FEATURE: The remarkable rise of Gloucester Academy, one of the country's most improved schools
Saturday 12th September 2026It is delivering year-on-year academic growth, while opening up great experiences for all pupilsRead full story...
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...
Farmers call for food rules update after heatwaves
Sunday 30th August 2026Farmers in Somerset and Gloucestershire say this year's heatwaves have affected the size of their produce...
Aldridge & Carse put Durham in control against Glos
Thursday 27th August 2026Kasey Aldridge's five-wicket haul and two wickets for Brydon Carse put County Championship Division Two leaders Durham in control against Gloucestershire...
Leach five-for sets up Somerset win over Essex
Sunday 23rd August 2026Spinner Jack leach takes 5-81 - and nine wickets in the match - as Somerset beat Essex by eight wickets to regain second place in Championship Division One...
Some parents 'unaware' summer-born children can defer school
Sunday 23rd August 2026Parents say misinformation means many families do not realise summer-born children can delay school...
Dental care offers street sex workers 'a lifeline'
Sunday 23rd August 2026Bristol Dental School is breaking down barriers faced by street sex workers in accessing care...
Police hail 'dramatic' anti-social behaviour drop
Sunday 23rd August 2026Arrests were made and dispersal orders were used which led to alcohol being confiscated...
National news archive
Schoolchildren without smartphones penalised with higher bus fares
Saturday 26th September 2026Despite guidance keeping mobile phones out of England’s schools, cheaper travel may only be available via an appSchoolchildren who do not own smartphones face paying hundreds of pounds extra in annual bus fares as cheaper travel passes are digitised...
‘They accepted the money but didn’t take care of my child’: what Luna Wong’s death reveals about the treatment of international students in the UK
Saturday 26th September 2026When her parents waved her off to study in England they hoped it would be a fresh start the 16-year-old needed after struggling with her mental health in Hong Kong...
We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar
Friday 25th September 2026I suspect nearly all of my students use AI, and I worry about its corrosive effects...
The Guardian view on vocational GCSEs: why now? | Editorial
Thursday 24th September 2026Ministers’ commitment to cutting youth unemployment is admirable, but how new qualifications will help is unclearThe first question that should be asked about plans to launch a batch of vocational GCSEs is: how will these differ from the roughly 50 similar courses that already exist? Is this primarily a rebadging exercise, aimed at boosting the qualifications’ status and name recognition, while signalling how seriously non-academic education is taken by Andy Burnham and his education secretary, Lucy Powell? Or is there something the matter with the existing courses that they want to put right?The independent curriculum review completed last year recommended a moratorium on new technical awards, except where there is an “exceptionally compelling” case for change...
Londoners get £3bn a year subsidy because structure of council tax biased against north, says thinktank – UK politics live
Thursday 24th September 2026Resolution Foundation says households outside London are paying hundreds of pounds a year more in council tax than they would be under a fair systemTim Shipman has written about what will be coming up at the Labour conference next week in his cover story for the Spectator...
Badenoch says Tories could not form pact with Reform UK because they’re too ‘problematic’ – UK politics live
Thursday 24th September 2026Conservative leader suggests making a deal amid scandals surrounding Farage’s party could derail the reputational clean-up of her own partyTim Shipman has written about what will be coming up at the Labour conference next week in his cover story for the Spectator...
Did you sit vocational qualifications in the past and more recently in England? We would like to hear from you
Thursday 24th September 2026How did you find them? Were they helpful in getting you to the next stage in your education or in securing a job?Teenagers are to be offered new vocational GCSEs in England, marking the biggest changes to the qualification for more than a decade...
Teenagers to be offered new vocational GCSE subjects in school
Thursday 24th September 2026New GCSE subjects could include child development and building and construction as vocational courses are being introduced...
Home Office orders review after two small boats reach Kent without being intercepted – UK politics live
Thursday 24th September 2026Shabana Mahmood says the failure to intercept the two boats was ‘not acceptable’Tim Shipman has written about what will be coming up at the Labour conference next week in his cover story for the Spectator...
UK defence contractors to offer 40,000 apprenticeships, placements and jobs
Wednesday 23rd September 2026Wes Streeting says he leads a ‘ministry for growth’ as Labour seeks to show more defence spending will create UK jobsDefence contractors have promised to create 40,000 apprenticeships, work experience placements and jobs for young people each year, as Wes Streeting claimed to be overseeing a “ministry for growth”...
Teenagers to be offered new vocational GCSE subjects in school
Wednesday 23rd September 2026New GCSE subjects could include child development and building and construction as vocational courses are being introduced...
Pupils to be offered vocational GCSEs in radical shake-up of system in England
Wednesday 23rd September 2026Courses such as finance and construction form part of PM’s push for education ‘that offers a path for everybody’Teenagers are to be offered a range of new vocational GCSEs under a radical shake-up of the school system in England designed to tackle a crisis that has left nearly a million young people out of work or training...
Schools not ready for AI and 'crying out' for government guidance, report warns
Tuesday 22nd September 2026Author Sir Anthony Seldon says AI needs to be addressed with the same urgency as a war or epidemic...
New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say
Monday 21st September 2026School leaders’ union says new system is worse than one it replaced and has left members feeling overwhelmedHeadteachers in England want Ofsted to stop grading their schools, saying its new inspection regime is harming their mental health and creating greater stress than the system it was designed to replace...
Union calls for halt to graded Ofsted inspections over health concerns
Sunday 20th September 2026The National Association of Head Teachers says inspections in England may pose a "risk to life" for school leaders...
Ms Rachel, the controversial queen of toddler TV: ‘My goal isn’t to be the most liked. It’s to help kids and speak the truth’
Sunday 20th September 2026Her catchy videos have racked up billions of views, but Rachel Accurso’s statements on everything from Gaza to LGBTQ rights have caused a stir...
Water your plants and get an eye mask: 48 life rules every student – and adult – needs to know
Sunday 20th September 2026If you’re a fresher, this may be the first time you’ve ever lived away from home...
After 20 years of my school dinners campaign, I’m a happy man. At last, we’re going to feed kids properly | Jamie Oliver
Saturday 19th September 2026This week’s government announcement on school food standards is huge...
European education powerhouses rocked by falling scores in global study
Saturday 19th September 2026France and Germany among countries with low Pisa scores, which show how well 15-year-olds use school learning in lifeFrance’s were its worst ever...
Think it’s time for gen Z to ‘grow up’? You’re even more out of touch than the British state | Gaby Hinsliff
Friday 18th September 2026We can’t expect young people to make a seamless transition from childhood to adulthood in this chilly economic climate...
‘It was a mess. I had to do something’: the personal struggle that inspired rap star Giggs to start a special needs school
Friday 18th September 2026After a battle to get his autistic children properly assessed, the London MC has co-founded a specialist centre in Kent to help neurodivergent kids realise their potentialIt has been a busy few weeks for the London rapper Giggs...
Children and mature adults we know about, but why is society so clueless about young people in between? | Gaby Hinsliff
Friday 18th September 2026While there’s much mocking of gen Z, the idea that the state should do more for those aged 18 to 25 is catching on around Westminster...
Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire
Thursday 17th September 2026Ronan plays a teacher who finds a way to deal with a disruptive pupil in Jonatan Etzler’s implausible film, but it’s not shocking or funny enoughHere is a strange, heavy-handed and unpersuasive black comedy which owes what success it has to the star-power of its lead, Saoirse Ronan, who is incapable of giving an uninteresting performance...
Union claims victory as ministers agree to fully fund pay rise for teachers in England
Wednesday 16th September 2026National Education Union welcomes news that schools will not have to partly fund increase from their own budgetsThe UK’s biggest education union is claiming a major victory after the government bowed to pressure and agreed to fully fund a forthcoming pay increase for teachers in England in a sudden U-turn on previous policy...
Schools in England get extra £500m in bid to avoid teachers' pay strike
Wednesday 16th September 2026The offer of extra money by the government reduces the prospect of strike action by the largest teaching union...
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