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Headteachers have reported an "unreal" surge in applications for education, health and care plans (EHCPs) mandating support for needs or disabilities such as speech and learning difficulties, autism or ADHD. In 2025…
Since then his illness has progressed, affecting his mobility and making ordinary tasks, like walking, increasingly difficult. My dad is softly spoken and endlessly kind but beneath his gentle exterior is a steely…
Think cognitive change not cognitive decline: one way people think about our cognitive function is by comparing it to what it was like when we were in our 20s and it's not a valid comparison. It leads to an assumption…
This is, apparently, what proud American patriots (the kind who describe themselves in those terms on their flag-forward X profiles anyway) are calling us Europeans , mocking us for our low salaries, high taxes and…
The inquiry into the Nottingham attacks is examining the events leading up to , when 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates, were fatally stabbed by Valdo…
Healthy middle-aged people deemed to have a higher risk of developing the condition will be eligible to participate in the trial, which is being run by an NHS trust as part of an international clinical trial aiming to…
Organizers with the youth-led group Protect Trans Futures (PTF) took their hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the lobby of her office building, then occupied the space, refusing to leave without a commitment to protect…
Over on Instagram she has posted dozens of reels with titles like "I turned 22 alone", "Living alone in London" and "Feeling alone this summer is OK", each garnering thousands of views and hundreds of comments, many from…
Not all of his 58 predecessors went to university, but those who did favoured subjects such as history and classics and, more recently, philosophy, politics and economics. Yet reading fiction is a fantastic preparation…
All eyes are on Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, where about 1.7 million people are eligible to vote, followed by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin on 20 September. In all three contests, the far-right, anti-immigrant…