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Jeremy BallEast Midlands social affairs correspondent Bhasker Solanki Bhasker Solanki has just returned to the Rushey Mead School in Gujarat The hopeful, smiling faces in this school photo mean so much to Bhasker Solanki. They are the culmination of a story that began when a natural disaster destroyed hundreds of …

Children aged five and under are being exposed to pornography online, leading to addiction, Sky News has learned. Warning: This article contains details you might find distressing Research carried out and shared by the charity Dignify shows that the age of children seeing sexual content on the internet is getting …

Joe FayTechnology Reporter Getty Images Producing weapons is not a career option for some When Caleb was nearing the end of his computer science degree and looking for his first job, one of few sectors actively recruiting graduates was defence. Salary, career path, and job security all looked good, but …

Getty Images Public Health Scotland has urged those eligible to get the flu vaccine The number of recorded flu cases in Scotland fell by nearly half over the Christmas holidays, latest figures show. Data from Public Health Scotland (PHS) shows there were 751 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza in the seven …

Chris MasonPolitical editor BBC Listen to Chris Mason read this article “It seems to be pretty rife!” So said Sir Keir Starmer before Christmas, when asked about speculation around his future as prime minister. He was appearing in front of senior MPs on parliament’s Liaison Committee at the time and …

Archie MitchellBusiness reporter Getty Images Octopus Energy is set to spin off its Kraken Technologies arm as a standalone company after a deal to sell a stake in the platform valued it at $8.65bn (£6.4bn). The energy giant, Britain’s biggest gas and electricity supplier, has sold a $1bn stake in …

Octopus Energy Group is on the brink of selling a big stake in its software arm, Kraken Technologies, at a valuation that will cement its status as one of Britain’s biggest private companies. Sky News has learnt that Octopus Energy has lined up a syndicate of investors to buy between …

[ Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels Every day, thousands of kids suffer the fear, shame and frustration of being bullied. More than 19% of children aged 12 to 18 say they have been targeted by peers, with a frightening number of cases happening online. A pediatrician explains what every parent …

Getty Images Police Scotland said they responded to reports of domestic abuse once every eight minutes Police Scotland respond to a report of domestic abuse every eight minutes, according to new figures. Domestic abuse crimes rose by 10% in the past 12 months and 66,000 incidents were reported to officers …

Orla GuerinSenior International Correspondent in Gaziantep, Turkey BBC Aya Mustafa wants to return home but not yet The pull of home can be strong – even when it is a place you can’t remember. That is how it is for Ahmed, 18. He emerges from a mosque in the heart …

Anna O’Neill,Londonand Frankie McCamley,London, Edmonton BBC Children at Wilbury Primary School watch a role play about county lines drug dealing In a classroom at Wilbury Primary School in Edmonton, north London, a group of 10-year-old children is being taught not to accept food from strangers. Free food can be appealing …

Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter The last 12 months have delivered a huge number of viral moments – Taylor Swift getting engaged, a raccoon getting drunk, and the 6-7 trend driving teachers everywhere to early retirement. But those weren’t the only moments that kept us entertained throughout the year. Here are 15 …

Charlie BucklandBBC Wales BBC Christmas is often regarded as a time for goodwill, but one young couple’s act of kindness 50 years ago changed their lives forever. On 23 December 1975, Rob Parsons and his wife Dianne were preparing for Christmas at their Cardiff home when they heard a knock …

Families in Nigeria were reunited with more than a hundred schoolchildren and teachers abducted in November. The tearful reunions happened just in time for Christmas. “This Christmas, since we are celebrating Christmas with our children, we are so glad. And this Christmas will be different from the others,” said Yusuf …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In Australia, as this school year ended, kids under 16 also lost access to social media. Some are relieved. Some are furious. Many are quietly wondering: what now? From a digital well-being perspective, there’s no single ‘right’ way to respond. How kids handle this depends …

The biggest school in the Highlands – Inverness Royal Academy – is to become a “no-phone zone” from next February. In a message to pupils and parents, the school said some children were using their phones during lessons and others to record fellow students and sometimes staff without their consent. …

Rumeana JahangirNorth West PA Media Owen Cooper says “it has been a good year” after winning praise for his performance in Adolescence Adolescence star Owen Cooper has said he was “nervous” about what the reaction to the drama would be after reading the script for the Netflix serial, which sparked …

Kate McGoughEducation reporter Dan Nelson / BBC Many children find themselves singing at school in the run up to Christmas – at a nativity play or carol concert, often with parents watching proudly on. But new data suggests singing is a much less common occurrence throughout the rest of the …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sigourney Weaver revealed how her late actress mother Elizabeth Inglis tried to discourage her from following in her footsteps.  Inglis was a British actress who had a successful stage career in the 1930s and appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 thriller “The 39 …

Footballer Karen Carney’s teachers have remembered her as an “inspirational team player” who battled to play football with the boys. The former Lioness turned pundit from Solihull will dance for the Strictly Come Dancing crown on Saturday against fellow contestants George Clarke and Amber Davies. Anna Spencer and Angela Tucker …