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Almost 1 in 10 school staff bring own food in for hungry kids

Staff regularly fork out to feed pupils who don’t get enough to eat at home according to new survey Almost one in 10 school staff brings food in from home to feed kids who would otherwise go hungry, a shocking study has found. They surveyed thousands of classroom based school support staff up and down the country - 8 per cent of whom felt they have to spend their own money on food for hungry children. Staff report children coming to...

Rees-Mogg blasted for “casual racism” comment

Would be Conservative Party leader Jacob Rees-Mogg has found himself in the centre of a racism storm, over comments he made at the Tory Party conference. Mr Rees-Mogg made the controversial comments at a pro-Brexit rally in Birmingham last night. He said: All the countries who are least interested in their people call themselves ‘people's’, don’t they? “So the People’s Republic of China? Oh, that’s communist. “And the People’s Republic of Jam Jar, or something like that, of Libya, was what it...

Actual barrier to opportunity erected outside Tory Party Conference

A barrier outside the Conservative Party Conference has been making the rounds on social media today ahead of the Conservative Party Conference. Delegates convened yesterday for the first day of the annual meeting in Birmingham with several big issues on the agenda. But despite international issues such as Brexit dominating most of the headlines it was opportunities at home that grabbed most attention on social media. A tweet by Channel 4 correspondent Ciaran Jenkins went viral after the reporter spotted...

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