September 2023

The hot weather in the southern part of Britain looks set to continue for the rest of the week, according to the Met Office. With Thursday starting off warm and humid – with some fog in the east – the Met Office said temperatures across the UK will rise under largely sunny skies as the […]

Here is a full list of schools with confirmed Raac (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete) as of August 30, according to the Department for Education. The list is arranged alphabetically and reads, from left to right: name of school; type of action taken; primary or secondary school; type of school. There are 147 schools where Raac

One of the last surviving female Bletchley Park codebreakers, who worked helping to decipher enemy communications during the Second World War, has died aged 99. Margaret Betts, of Ipswich, Suffolk was 19 years old when she was headhunted by “men from the ministry”, having performed well at school, her son Jonathan Betts, 68, said. He

Two Kent schools have reopened after being forced to shut for a day amid concerns over the risk of collapsing concrete. Palmarsh Primary in Hythe was closed completely on Tuesday and St James’ Church of England Primary in Tunbridge Wells was partially closed, due to the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac). The schools

The mother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif has spoken of the grief she felt when she went to identify her daughter’s body in the mortuary. Sara’s body was found at a property in Hammond Road, Woking, after police were called from Pakistan by her father on August 10. A post-mortem examination found she had suffered “multiple

Joe Jonas has filed for divorce from Sophie Turner after four years of marriage and two children. The 34-year-old Jonas Brothers singer filed to end his marriage with the 27-year-old star of Game Of Thrones and X-Men actress in Florida’s Miami-Dade County Court. The filing said “the marriage between the parties is irretrievably broken”. Turner

The technical glitch which caused widespread disruption to flights last week was a “one in 15 million” occurrence, an air traffic control (ATC) boss said. National Air Traffic Services (Nats) chief executive Martin Rolfe said one of its systems failed after it “didn’t process (a) flight plan properly”. The plan submitted by the airline –

Administrators for Wilko have announced 1,332 further job cuts at the stricken high street retailer. The GMB union, which represents more than 3,000 Wilko workers, said it has been informed that 1,016 jobs will be axed across 52 Wilko stores. It added that 24 of these sites will close on Tuesday September 12, and the

Spain’s Women’s World Cup-winning coach Jorge Vilda has been sacked amid the fallout from the scandal involving the Spanish federation president Luis Rubiales. Vilda was the only member of the women’s national team coaching set-up not to resign in protest at the behaviour of Rubiales at the end of the World Cup final, but the

Formula One’s governing body has announced that all of the grid’s 10 teams have been awarded compliance certificates after sticking to last season’s budget cap. Despite murmurings in the paddock that some teams might have breached the 135 millions US dollars (£108m) limit, the FIA said on Tuesday that no team was found in breach. Red Bull