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Plans to halve the attainment gap between the poorest pupils in England and their more affluent peers will be set out by the government on Monday.The…

Reform-led Worcestershire county council is likely to issue England’s largest council tax rise this April after it was given special permission by the government to increase…

Harvey Hind has just turned five. He can count to a thousand. He can recite the alphabet – forwards and backwards – and he loves Play-Doh…

A row between government departments has broken out after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) proposed cutting all its funding for physical education in…

The privatisation of water in England is not the reason for its failings, the architect of the government’s water plan has said, as he warned there…

At the end of a sorry Ashes loss capped off by news of Harry Brook’s involvement in a late-night incident two months earlier, Brendon McCullum set…

Deep under London’s streets, thousands of miles from Caracas, Nicolás Maduro’s seizure by the US has reopened a multibillion-dollar question: who controls Venezuela’s gold reserves at…

Millions of people are turning to A&E departments in England for minor ailments including coughs, blocked noses and hiccups, according to data that health leaders say…

Brendon McCullum has stressed his desire to stay on as England head coach but acknowledged this is now a question for those higher up.Australia winning this…

Record numbers of sightings of one of the world’s most intelligent invertebrates over the summer have led the Wildlife Trusts to declare 2025 “the year of…