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...
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...
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...
Two British soldiers have appeared in court accused of being part of an outlawed neo-Nazi group, with one alleged to have had the manifesto of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik on his computer. Soldiers Mikko Vevhilainen, 32, a lance corporal, and Mark Barrett, 24, a private, are accused of being...
Almost half of adults (49%) aged between 18-75 said they would consider some form of Universal basic income. The poll had been commissioned by IPR for Ipsos-MORI and the support is for surprisingly high for an income that meets every citizen’s basic needs, regardless of social demographic and existing wealth....
As dinosaurs changed into birds millions of years ago their skull and brains moved in tandem, scientists have revealed for the first time. They tracked the link between the brain's development and the roofing bones of the skull. The team from Yale University, led by co-senior author assistant professor of...
Supermodel Joanna Krupa was painted in tiger stripes by the animal charity PETA outside Westminster, Central London, in order to put pressure on wild animals being used in travelling circuses Supermodel Joanna Krupa was painted in tiger stripes by the animal charity PETA outside Westminster, Central London, in order to...
A newlywed bride is lucky to be alive after she was bitten by a venomous spider on her HONEYMOON. Victoria Ross, 32, was just two weeks into her marriage with company manager Brian, 33, when she was nipped on the right leg by a tiny 1 cm-long violin spider on...