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New analysis of school funding by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies shows the budget per pupil is growing faster than expected, by 9% in real terms between 2025-26 and 2028-29. This is partly because of various government top-ups to the budget and falling pupil numbers in some areas. Economist Luke Sibieta said asking schools to offer more vocational routes would be a “big change” on top of the significant reforms to support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. He said there was a “big question mark” over whether there were enough people to teach technical and vocational…

2025-26: SeventhKey signing: Joe Marchant, centreAdam Lanigan, BBC Sport EnglandLast season was a rude awakening for Sale Sharks as their run of three straight top-four finishes was emphatically ended.The fact that they were out of play-off contention by the January break for the Six Nations was even more damning, eventually finishing 27 points behind fourth spot, leading to the question of whether the Sharks and their physical style of play had been rumbled.To back up some of their local talent, director of rugby Alex Sanderson has recruited a wealth of experience led by ex-Northampton and England second-rower Courtney Lawes, while…

Travellers have destroyed a leafy village in a two-day “military-scale” operation.A group of travellers waited until council offices began to close at 4.45pm on Friday on September 11 to close in on land at the edge of Hillam, North Yorkshire.The patch of land, bought as a grazing paddock for horses, was trampled by a mass of lorries as the grass was stripped and covered with concrete rubble, stones and bricks.Tall fences were erected as neighbours desperately called North Yorskhire County Council to halt the development, but no officials were available over the weekend.Septic tanks were also brought in to handle…

Kemi Badenoch’s newly announced benefits crackdown has received a scathing assessment from Richard Tice. Speaking to GB News, the Deputy Leader of Reform UK declared the move a “modest Lib Dem-style sticking plaster” on an issue which “they created in the first place”.Under the new plans from the Tory leader, long-term jobless benefits claimants could be banned from spending their welfare payments on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling.Mrs Badenoch says the changes would also see Universal Credit payments slashed for those who haven’t made consistent contributions to the system, calling it currently “unfair to workers”.Offering his verdict of the plan, Mr…

Residents previously asked the council to test their blood for the chemical. But according to the UK Health Security Agency, PFAS monitoring is not currently recommended because “tests are unlikely to provide clear information for individuals”.Instead independent tests were offered by Manchester Metropolitan University, paid for by investigative journalists Watershed and Law for Change – which funds cases covering environmental issues.Forty-nine residents volunteered, and they were told their blood test readings on Wednesday.Andrew Molloy found out he was in the highest-risk category.”I was half expecting it to be just normal,” he said. “Because the investigation here has all been focused…

De Zerbi is a very passionate, straight-talking and ambitious manager who demands total commitment and backing from his board.He has definitely had that at Spurs, which has left people wondering why he has made such a slow start.But, before the season started, I thought his biggest challenge with so many different types of players arriving would be to put players together that fit as a team, not as a group of individuals.I’ve been in that situation myself, for example in my early days at Stoke, when I signed Gerry Taggart and Michael Duberry to play together, two centre-halves who were…

Fury has erupted after a beloved Bonfire Night was cancelled for a second year in a row amid a “health and safety” push. Organisers behind Truro’s annual bonfire night and fireworks display have confirmed it will not go ahead following extensive talks over safety plans. Truro City Council said that due to an estimated 5,000 residents planning to attend the event, it is put into the “enhanced tier” under Martyn’s Law legislation. Passed last year, Martyn’s Law forces certain venues and events to bolster security, conduct risk assessments, and prepare emergency plans to shield people from possible terror attacks. Despite…

A seven-year-old girl has won a national competition for her artwork which was inspired by LS Lowry.Mia, of Salford, was picked as the winner from 600 entries to the 2026 Copley Prize, an annual art competition run by the Lowry theatre and gallery.Her artwork, titled A Man Going To Work, is now hanging in the Andrew Law Galleries, alongside the famous paintings by Lowry himself, and will remain on display for the next 12 months.Mia said: “I feel so happy that my work will be in a real art gallery.”Every year primary school-aged children from across the UK are invited…

“We definitely did all we could and I can honestly sleep at night knowing there was nothing I physically could have done any different.”It is 10 years since Nicola Urquhart’s son, Corrie Mckeague, disappeared on 24 September 2016 after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. For the months and years that followed, she embodied a mother’s love and determination to find the truth: to never give up.The RAF gunner’s body has never been found but he was officially declared dead in 2022, when an inquest ruled he had died after climbing into a commercial waste bin before it…