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A teenager who robbed a Penrith petrol station worker at knifepoint and then plotted to rob a woman at a cash machine in the town just weeks later has been jailed for almost a decade. Paul Stuchfield, 19, was branded a “latter day Fagin” by a judge at Carlisle Crown Court for involving younger boys…
Starting salaries for teachers could rise up to £30,000 by 2023, according to news government plans. The Department for Education said the move would make new teachers’ salaries, set to rise to £30,000 by 2022-23, “among the most competitive” in the graduate labour market. Unions say the increase is long overdue, and necessary, to attract…
Thomas Cook has reached a “substantial agreement” on a rescue deal with investors and lenders. Forsun will take a 75% stake in its tour operating business and have a 25% stake in its airline business. Forsun will also put in £450m for the business to help save the airline. Lenders will put another £450m in…
The boy is reported to have initially collapsed by the side of a swimming pool at the holiday chain’s “Subtropical Swimming Paradise” in Longleat, Wiltshire. According to one eyewitness, the boy’s mother was heard “screaming” for her son to wake up whilst people were desperately trying to revive him. Emergency services were called to the…
A study shows that a daily pill containing four medicines can cut the number of heart attacks and strokes by a third. The polypill contains blood-thinning aspirin, a cholesterol-lowering statin and two drugs to lower blood pressure. The researchers said the pill had a huge impact but cost just pennies a day. They suggest giving…
The Prime Minister is ordering urgent action to make sure children and young people in Britain are vaccinated against measles. The UK has lost its measles free status, three years after the virus was cleared from the country. The disease can be stopped through two doses of the MMR vaccine, but immunisation rates have been…
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