Families criticise leaders at Our Lady’s Abingdon after closure
Chris McHugh BBC News, Oxfordshire BBC A teaching union said the school’s former staff had been left in a “desperate” situation A parent of two children who attended a private…
Moment fireball lights up night sky in Japan
A fireball lit up the sky across many parts of southern Japan on Tuesday evening. Live cameras at locations across parts of Kyushu and Shikoku captured the white fireball as…
Do rewards boost exam grades?
Vanessa Clarke Education reporter Imogen Farmer Imogen Farmer was taken shopping in London as a reward for her A-level grades last year Hundreds of thousands of GCSE students are nervously…
Leaked report shows 10,000 gap in probation staff
There is a shortage of around 10,000 probation staff to manage offenders serving sentences in the community, documents seen by the BBC show. Probation staff supervise offenders after they are…
How eight seconds of scratchy audio from a VHS tape gave a mum back her voice
Hear the difference between Sarah’s old robotic voice and her new AI-generated one “After such a long time, I couldn’t really remember my voice,” Sarah Ezekiel tells BBC Access All.…
Man in US gets 8 years in prison for sending weapons to N Korea
A Chinese national has been sentenced to eight years in prison for smuggling firearms and other military items to North Korea, the US justice department has said. Shenghua Wen, 42,…
Councils consider legal action over asylum hotels
PA Media Councils across England are considering taking legal action to remove asylum seekers from hotels in their areas. It follows the High Court granting a district council a temporary…
Competitors walk slackline 400m above Chinese gorge
Elite slackliners took part in a contest 400m above a Chinese gorge. The eighth edition of the competition in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park saw participants walk between two peaks more…
Six severed heads found on road
Six severed heads have been found on a road in central Mexico, in an area not normally associated with cartel violence. Local authorities made the discovery early on Tuesday morning…
Final £1 coins bearing face of late Queen Elizabeth II enter circulation
The last batch of £1 coins bearing the face of the late Queen Elizabeth II is entering circulation, with more than 23 million of them destined for tills and people’s…