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Conservatives are in denial about the impact of cuts to school budgets and refuse to acknowledge that one of their flagship policies simply isn't working says GMB GMB, the union for school support staff, says new figures showing eight out of 10 academies in deficit show the Government is gambling with our children’s future. A new reports shows academy budgets are in an even worse state than those of council-run schools - with eight out of 10 in deficit. Two...

Troubled Ant McPartlin has been released 'under investigation' after being arrested on suspicion of drink-driving. The TV presenter, 42, was taken to a police station after his Mini was involved in a collision with two other vehicles in south west London on Sunday afternoon. A numbe of people suffered minor injuries in the incident and a child passenger in one of the cars was taken to hospital for a check-up. Police confirmed Ant has since been released and although he...

Eight major household brands including PZ Cussons (makers of Carex soap), Johnson & Johnson (baby lotion) and Kellogg’s (Pop Tarts) have been named and shamed by Greenpeace for refusing to take steps towards eliminating palm oil from Indonesian forest destruction from their supply chains. As members of the powerful Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), the brands promised in 2010 to help protect forests and limit climate change by cleaning up global commodity supply chains by 2020. Yet with less than two...

A 93-year-old former nurse honoured with an MBE for her services to the NHS spent SIX DAYS in a hospital corridor with a spinal fracture due to a bed shortage. After a six-hour wait at A&E, former theatre sister Enid Stevens was left in a cubicle on her own for another five hours - in soaking wet clothes after becoming incontinent. The great-grandmother-of-five was unable to move on the trolley and had no way of alerting nurses so she was...

A new report has revealed shocking insights into the development of South Africa’s controversial captive lion breeding industry. Despite widespread international condemnation, South Africa’s controversial lion breeding industry has grown year-on-year and has links to wildlife trafficking, according to a new report Cash Before Conservation: An Overview of the Breeding of Lions for Hunting and Bone Trade, published today by international wildlife charity Born Free. Born Free’s President and Co-Founder, Will Travers OBE, said: “As many as 8,000 lions languish in...

The victim, Farah Biwi, 25, suffered burns injuries to her face, hands and stomach after her husband Siraj allegedly threw acid over her on March 7

Vladimir Putin is "overwhelmingly likely" to have ordered the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal according to Boris Johnson. The foreign secretary said "our quarrel is with Putin's Kremlin, and with his decision" over the nerve agent attack. Russia denies ordering the attack and has said that the accusations against Putin are "shocking and unforgivable". Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia Skripal, 33, remain critically ill in hospital. Speaking alongside the Polish foreign minister, Mr Johnson said...

Children who have fled persecution, trafficking and torture to come to the UK are one step closer to being reunited with their close families abroad after MPs from across the political spectrum expressed their assent to the second reading of SNP's Angus MacNeil's Refugees (Family Reunion) Bill. The Refugee Council hailed the vote a "huge step forward towards refugees in the UK being able to be reunited with their families." However as this is a Private Member's Bill, without Theresa...

Solicitor said the guilty plea could be challenged and court bent the rules because he was famous