Labour’s ‘class war’ on SEND: Ministers vow to strip funding from independent special schools… but appease MPs and unions by delaying curbs to spiralling budgets
[ad_1] Labour is vowing to strip funding from independent special schools today amid fears of a new ‘class war’ in education. Ministers have unveiled a major overhaul of support for SEND and disadvantaged pupils with panic mounting over spiralling costs. A £4billion package over three years will aim to bolster provision in mainstream schools and […]
Sex abuse survivor, 41, who is too terrified to walk to the shops because her ex is still tormenting her from behind bars ‘feels trapped in her home’… and can’t move because ‘she can’t get funding to safeguard a new house’
[ad_1] A sex abuse survivor has lost all access to safeguarding in her home – despite her dangerous former partner’s impending release from prison. Gemma Willis, 41, was subjected to terrifying and degrading assaults from her partner between 2014 and 2017. Richard Ridley sliced her neck with a garden trowel, beat her until she became […]
Ronnie O’Sullivan to make debut at 2026 World Seniors Snooker Championship while still targeting eighth world championship win
[ad_1] Ronnie O’Sullivan will be competing in the 2026 Seniors Snooker Championship and the World Snooker Championship within just weeks of each other; the 50-year-old won his first world title 25 years ago and looks to add another accolade to his name Last Updated: 23/02/26 3:44pm Ronnie O’Sullivan will be going for his eighth world […]
We could use a ‘solar slingshot’ to catch 3I/ATLAS, scientists say
[ad_1] Would make for quite a good amusement park ride (Picture: Getty/Metro) Scientists are considering a rather novel way to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS – a solar slingshot. In the months since the interstellar trespasser was spotted, scientists clashed over whether it was a giant snowball (a comet) or… a UFO. One reason […]
Inside Epstein’s Zorro Ranch ‘where paedophile looked to carry out human experiments and create super-race breeding facility’ and ‘buried girls who were strangled during sex’
[ad_1] Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling Zorro Ranch has long been reported to have served as one of his private playgrounds for sexual abuse and trafficking. From looking to carry out human experiments, create a super-race breeding facility using his DNA, and even allegedly burying the bodies of girls who had been strangled to death during ‘rough, fetish […]
Millionaire Primrose Hill neighbours embroiled in ‘absurd’ £260,000 legal battle over wonky basement wall
[ad_1] Two millionaire couples living in an exclusive London suburb are locked in a £260,000 battle over a three-foot bulge in a basement wall. Safina Haleema and Anthony O’Connor are suing award-winning mental health consultant Amy McKeown and her husband Matthew Dalton over the wonky wall in their £1.5million Primrose Hill home. The complainants say […]
Tables turned on the Pro-Palestine ‘Jew hunters’: Activists planning to go door-to-door asking locals to boycott Israeli products are foiled by counter-protesters making them hide in pub
[ad_1] Activists accused of engaging in a ‘Jew hunt’ as they planned to go door-to-door asking locals to boycott Israeli products were stopped after counter-protesters forced them to hide in a pub. Members the Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone (AFZ) campaign had planned a door-knock encouraging people to boycott Israeli businesses amid the country’s ongoing war with Hamas in […]
Violence erupts across Mexico after drugs kingpin El Mencho assassinated
[ad_1] To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The killing of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader, ‘El Mencho’ has sparked unrest, fires and chaos across tourist hotspots in Mexico. ‘El Mencho’, whose real name is Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, was killed in the […]
MPs will threaten to escalate their scrutiny of the Royal Family amid Andrew saga
[ad_1] Westminster is set to push for greater scrutiny of the Royal Family. MPs will return to Parliament today following a week-long recess with a clamour for answers over the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal. The former prince is under investigation for allegedly leaking confidential information to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and other wealthy contacts while serving as […]
Victim reveals how she was left with flesh-eating disease after GP did not see her face-to-face then fled to India
[ad_1] A woman who had a large part of her stomach removed after a negligent GP failed to see her in person spoke of her ‘rage’ at seeing the doctor had fled to India afterwards. Oriana McDonald had found a lump on her stomach and discovered her temperature was 36.6C, so she went to see […]