Shocking new analysis shows 75% of TA apprentices are paid just £3.50 an hour GMB, the union for teaching assistants, has warned that apprentices are being used as ‘cheap labour’ and are vulnerable to exploitation as education cuts bite. Analysis of 190 teaching assistant apprenticeship vacancies reveals that 75 per ...
A 52 million year old ankle fossil dug up in France shows the first primates were high flying acrobats... throwing human evolution on its head. The shape and size of the tiny bone suggests our earliest ancestors flexed and sharply extended their ankles - to launch into the air. They ...
Following a parliamentary question by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, the UK government has published its official guest list for Defence & Security Equipment International 2017 (DSEI), one of the biggest arms fairs in the world. (c) CAAT The controversial defence industry get together kicked off today in the Excel ...
By Michael McNulty A beat up car barrels down a dusty road in the remote bad-lands of rural Pakistan, a group of sweaty men, armed to the teeth, sneer as they approach an isolated house. Standing tall, proud and brandishing a Kalashnikov of her own is the young, beautiful Noza ...
A disgruntled hospital visitor has slammed a sandwich company for "ripping off the NHS" with an 'egg salad sandwich' - with hardly any EGG in it. Carl Simpson, 48, was visiting his wife Maria in hospital when she ordered the sandwich through the hospital's catering team. When poorly Maria opened ...
When it comes to getting away for a weekend in the winter most Londoners are looking for three things; a cosy location, scrumptious food and a hassle-free journey. Thankfully, The Miller of Mansfield has all three. Nestled at the heart of Goring-on-Thames around eight miles north-west of Reading The Miller lies at ...
A descendant of an Indian servant who inspired the new Stephen Frears movie with Judi Dench 'Victoria and Abdul' has told how his great-uncle introduced the monarch to curry and the Koran. Abdul Karim was an Indian Muslim who was handpicked to help Queen Victoria learn about her Asian territories ...
One of Britain's youngest graduates has earned a first class honours degree in Maths after studying in his free time - at the age of only 13. Wang Pok Lo is already studying for his Master's degree after achieving the remarkable feat by completing an Open University course. The child ...
A pair of busty best friends frustrated at being unable to find sexy lingerie that fitted their well endowed assets have set up shop to cater for women in a similar predicament. Alice Holden, 25 and 30GG, and Fleurette Mulcahy, 24 and 28FF/G, both struggled to find bras to fit ...