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Cash-strapped councils are running out of money to deal with rising numbers of people without permanent homes

Nearly 16,000 children in England learn in state-funded alternative provision (AP). These are educational settings for school-aged pupils who are unable to attend mainstream school. These pupils may have been excluded from their previous school, have a medical condition or find themselves without a school place.

Bath attack coach Lee Blackett will join Steve Borthwick’s coaching group in the same role, while Byron McGuigan comes on board as assistant defence coach

Ben Stokes’ plea for changes to the punitive system of over-rate penalties has been rejected by the International Cricket Council

"This assertion is totally inappropriate and is part of an attempt to further stigmatise and delegitimise trans people and their identities and…

When someone is taken into police custody, they don’t lose their basic rights, including access to healthcare. But new research suggests that, for many people detained by police in England, getting the care they need can be anything but straightforward.

The 58-year-old, a truck driver originally from Leicester in England, is charged with the murder of his wife Tina in Youghal in Co Cork in 2017.

Sources say pay increases will not be covered by borrowing and must come from existing budgets, creating possibility of strikes