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Almost 6,000 school staff lost their jobs in 2017 as the Conservative Government’s education cuts began to bite, according to GMB Union New figures released today also show nearly 3,000 teaching assistant lost their jobs last year – the first drop since records began. In total 5,800 school support staff posts were cut last year - a reduction of 1.1 per cent of the workforce. And 2,800 teaching assistants lost their jobs. This was the first time that the number...

An influential committee has said that they were sure that the UK were fully aware of the way US detainees were treated after the Twin Tower terror attacks in New York City. The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said it was "beyond doubt" the UK knew of the treatment and still continued to pass over classified information in over 200 more cases. "It is difficult to comprehend how those at the top of the office did not recognise the pattern...

Archaeologists from the University of Glasgow have discovered barley beer in Bronze Age Mesopotamian drinking vessels

An inquest heard a letter from the US Embassy stated intelligence officials did not have evidence of Russian involvement in any plot to kill Alexander Perepilichnyy

Staunch Brexiter Lord Ashcroft has advised UK firms to move to Malta after Brexit. In a blog on Conservative Home the outspoken peer said "as a hard-nosed, self-made businessman, I believe that Malta represents the best destination for ambitious UK firms that must have a post-Brexit presence in the European Union". He said the "diverse, open-market economy" makes it an attractive place to move for UK firms that "have understandably decided, particularly in a period of uncertainty, that they will need...

Nobody bats an eyelid any more when various aquarium and zoo animals develop psychic abilities enabling them to predict World Cup scores. This year The Three Lions Pub in Bristol even has a regular dressed as an octopus predicting scores. But as it’s 2018, things have got a lot more sophisticated. A German team of machine learning researchers simulated 100,000 match eventualities to predict Germany to win the World Cup. But with Germany bowing out at the group stage of...

Researchers believe combination with established treatment could improve outcomes in prostate cancer Clinical trials planned to assess psoriasis drug in men with advanced disease New treatment has potential to work in larger proportion of patients than existing immunotherapies A new form of immunotherapy reactivates the response to hormone treatment in advanced prostate cancer, a study in mice and human prostate cancer cells has found. Hormone therapy is a mainstay of prostate cancer treatment – but tumour cells can grow resistant,...

The Orthodox Jewish all-girls high school was slammed for blanking out pictures of men and women standing together in textbooks - and teachers even crossed out bare ankles in science books.

The blaze has been declared a "major incident" and the army is on standby