When will VAT be added to fees?
Getty Images The government has announced details of how it will change tax on private school fees. Labour says it is removing the current exemption from value added tax (VAT)…
‘I’m an Irish Traveller and I’m too anxious to go to school’
BBC Edee is one of the Traveller children the charity Leeds GATE supports “When I was going to school, the other pupils just didn’t understand our culture. I felt isolated…
My pilgrimage to Scotland’s vanishing snow patch
The Sphinx, a patch of snow believed to be the longest-lasting in the UK, has melted for the fourth consecutive year. Iain Cameron has spent decades surveying the patch, hidden…
US judge orders Google to open app store to competitors
A US federal judge has ruled that Google must allow Android apps made by rival technology firms onto its Google Play app store for three years starting next month. The…
Employers look outside the industry for new staff
Panaseer Dr Leila Powell brought her scientific method from astrophysics to cyber-security How do galaxies form? What happens when they collide? These are the kinds of questions Dr Leila Powell…
Who is the PM’s new chief of staff?
Morgan McSweeney has become the prime minister’s chief of staff, after Sue Gray quit the role saying “intense commentary” around her position “risked becoming a distraction”. It followed weeks of…
We were not treated as parents, Covid inquiry told
Covid Inquiry Tamsin Mullen was giving evidence to the Covid inquiry about the impact on maternity services A mother of premature twins has told the Covid inquiry she did not…
Do homes for $1 schemes work?
BBC Judy Aleksalza bought her terrace house back in the 1970s for just $1 It was a regeneration idea that started half a century ago in the US, and has…
Could ‘Midlands man’ Robert Jenrick be the next Tory leader?
PA Media Robert Jenrick was born and educated in Wolverhampton When Robert Jenrick strode onto the stage at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, he wasted no time in setting…
Immunotherapy project aims to benefit more cancer patients
BBC News Alex Green in now in remission from his cancer Alex Green is clear – without immunotherapy, he would have died in 2019. His advanced melanoma skin cancer was…