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Hundreds of thousands more children are set to receive a free breakfast through a Government scheme, Bridget Phillipson has announced..

Guinness World Records is celebrating its 70th anniversary by looking back at the extraordinary feats achieved since its inception – as well as unveiling 70 wacky and unclaimed records..

The King and Queen will have a first meeting with the Pope during a state visit to Vatican City next month..

Education unions have warned that poverty continues to “rip through our communities and schools” as they added to growing calls for the Government to ditch the two-child limit..

A nursery worker who abused 21 babies has been jailed for eight years as parents of her victims condemned her “sickening” crimes and branded her the “worst kind of human”..

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders at the United Nations that his country “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war in Gaza..

The Scottish Conservatives have laid out a plan to cut red tape and end “woke” practices in Scotland’s business agencies..

White children from low-income backgrounds are already the most likely to be disengaged when they start secondary school, a study has found..