Father: 'Parents Rightly Object' To Councils Dictating School Holidays
Father Jon Platt speaks outside the High Court after winning his fight against a fine for taking his daughter on holiday during term time.
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Yahoo NewsFather Jon Platt speaks outside the High Court after winning his fight against a fine for taking his daughter on holiday during term time.
Letters: Tory plans to use police cells to tackle prison overcrowding will make a crisis even worse, according to Deborah Coles, Joe Sim, Steve Tombs and Martha Spurrier
Tyson Fury laid down the challenge to Oleksandr Usyk as the two heavyweight champions went head-to-head in an intense face-off. Unified WBA ‘Super’, IBF, WBO and IBO title-holder Usyk was at ringside at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday night to watch Fury retain his WBC belt in emphatic fashion in front of 60,000 fans with an utterly dominant 10th-round stoppage of Derek Chisora, also supporting fellow Ukrainian Denys Berinchyk, who won the European lightweight gold after beating Yvan Mendy. Fury called out Usyk after his fourth successive stoppage win and rained down the expletive-ridden insults, provoking his rival to jump up onto the ring apron for a fierce staredown.
Protest groups have taken coordinated action across London on what they have called the Fuel Poverty Day of Action.Campaigners from the Don’t Pay UK and Fuel Poverty Action groups held what they called a “warm up” at the British Museum and Stratford Westfield on Saturday afternoon. The groups held the protest against rising energy bills and “sky-rocketing” levels of fuel poverty.
Asa Bennett told the BBC the ex-prime minister demanded the volume was ‘turned up to 11’ when she arrived
Gloucester picked up a bonus point as they racked up four tries in a 34-19 win over Northampton at Kingsholm
Nuclear fusion robots are being prepared for use in space to remove debris and revive defunct satellites.
A handball from the past haunted the clash between Ghana and Uruguay. Now they're both ghosts as far as the 2022 World Cup is concerned. Uruguayan sense of humourFor many Ghanaians Luis Suarez roams the firmament as the devil incarnate. His resident evil? To have handled the ball on the goal line in the dying seconds of extra-time during the quarter-final between Uruguay and Ghana at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He was sent off for the horror and Asamoah Gyan missed the penalty. And then
Small farmers say reports of ‘shortage’ are driving customers to grab mass-produced poultry from supermarket freezer cabinets
HEREFORD defender Orrin Pendley was racially abused and tried to confront a fan at King’s Lynn who said racially comments towards him.
Police have appealed for witnesses after a pedestrian in his 70s died following a crash in Watford.
Burkina Faso on Saturday ordered the immediate suspension of Radio France Internationale (RFI) broadcasts, accusing it of putting out a "message of intimidation" attributed to a "terrorist chief". It is the second West African country under military rule, after Mali, to take the French broadcaster off the airwaves this year.RFI had contributed to "a desperate manoeuvre of terrorist groups" to dissuade thousands of Burkinabe citizens mobilised for the defence of the country, said Burkinabe govern
ONLY in Britain could you have a sketch like the “Class System”. You know the one, upper class John Cleese looking down on middle class Ronnie Barker, who in turn looks down on working class Ronnie Corbett (“I know my place”).
Footage of so-called ‘warm up’ demonstrations showed activists lying on sofas and beds inside the department store.
Russia has built an army base in Mariupol in a sign that it’s consolidating power in the port city after capturing it earlier this year, according to satellite photos.
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Officials in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson announced on Saturday they would help citizens evacuate from parts of Russian-occupied territory on the east bank of the Dnipro River amid fears of intensified fighting. Yaroslav Yanushevych, the regional governor, said officials were temporarily lifting a ban on crossings to allow Ukrainians living in villages across the river to traverse the Dnipro during daylight hours and to a designated point. "Evacuation is necessary due to the possible intensification of hostilities in this area," he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
‘It was peaceful and perfect,’ recalls Lee’s wife of his death
The Home Office has apologised to a human rights academic fleeing Hong Kong for the “worry and stress” it caused her and her family by wrongly denying her son a visa.
Socceroos fans lit flares and fireworks at Melbourne’s Federation Square ahead of Australia’s early morning game against Argentina in the knockout stage of the FIFA World Cup on December 4.Video posted by Katie Camarena on Sunday shows crowds of fans embracing the 6am kick-off at Fed Square, one of many live sites playing the game for fans around the city.Argentina beat Australia 2-1 to advance to the semifinals. Credit: Katie Camarena via Storyful
Workers for France’s SNCF trains are on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions.