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The Conservatives have confronted a Labour-run London council with “deep concerns” over the signing off of a school forcing female pupils to wear hijabs.Barnet Hill Academy, an independent Islamic faith school, requires girls from the age of seven to wear hijabs and will become state-funded from the beginning of September after the local authority approved its application last month.Voluntary-aided (VA) schools are maintained and funded by local authorities, while their governing bodies retain control over areas including staffing and admissions.The decision prompted concern from Laura Trott, Shadow Secretary of State for Education, and Joy Morrissey, Shadow Minister for Women and…

King Charles appeared to sidestep a potential gender debate with carefully chosen language when discussing the people who embroidered the Bayeux Tapestry.The monarch referred to the individuals who are believed to have created the famous 11th-century work as “English craftspeople” during a speech at the British Museum on Wednesday evening.King Charles was speaking to French President Emmanuel Macron as the historic tapestry went on display in Britain for the first time.The King highlighted the theory that, despite being commissioned in Normandy, the tapestry was “most likely to have been embroidered in Canterbury by English craftspeople”.The wording is notable given the…

The Bank of England has received more than £9billion in gold after the Netherlands’ central bank relocated the vast sum from North America to London amid surging “geopolitical unrest”.De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) said the transfer, completed between March and August, repositioned some 86 tonnes away from the United States and Canada in favour of London’s more liquid trading environment. The gold is just a piece of the Netherlands’ 612.4-tonne gold stock – valued at £62.02billion at the close of last year.DNB President Olaf Sleijpen explained the move would “strengthen its crisis preparedness” amid “increasing geopolitical unrest”. Mr Sleijpen said: “With…

Kirstie Allsopp has revealed she was rushed to hospital and required surgery after suffering a nasty fall while celebrating her birthday.The 55-year-old Location, Location, Location presenter shared a series of pictures from her hospital bed on Wednesday as she detailed the dramatic incident, which occurred during an annual family tradition at Meadowgate.Ms Allsopp explained that she had been enjoying a picnic on the beach at Welcombe Mouth before going for a swim and beginning the walk back to the house for birthday cake.However, the celebrations took a painful turn when she slipped on a muddy section of a steep path.Kirstie…

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has pressed Andy Burnham over UK borrowing and spending at his first Prime Minister’s Questions.Badenoch called on the PM to say where spending would be cut and how he would deal with the UK’s increasing debt, after the cost of borrowing for the UK rose, reaching a new 18-year high on Wednesday.The PM blamed the previous Conservative government saying that the “turbulence on global markets are because of that exposure that they left behind”.Burnham became prime minister in July, having taken over from Sir Keir Starmer just before Parliament’s summer recess, and it was the first…

Olympic long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall says she is “lucky and blessed to be alive” after being involved in a car crash.The 27-year-old American was on her way to training last week when she was involved in a “very scary” head-on collision, leaving her with a “severe” concussion. While not ruling herself out of this month’s inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championships in Budapest, the reigning world champion says she has been unable to train since the accident.”Luckily I walked away without any major injuries,” Davis-Woodhall wrote on social media.”At this point I’m working with my team and doctors to get…

Six serving police officers have been sacked following an internal investigation by Greater Manchester Police into alleged racial discrimination against a fellow officer.GMP said two other former officers who were also investigated would have been fired if they were still on the force. Another officer received written warning.A force disciplinary panel heard the female officer of African heritage (who was not named in the proceedings) complained after her accent was mimicked by a group of officers.She was also compared to a suspect with similar skin colour, while one officer made a derogatory comment about her hair.The panel found six officers…

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