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New education project focuses on multilingualism in the UK - A new research project, launched last week through our Department of Education , will assess the changes in attitude towards multilingualism and ...

The situation is critical': Schools will lose teaching talent without 5% pay hike, unions claim - A group of unions including the Association of School and College Leaders and the National Education Union said teachers' pay levels have fallen ...

Most stressful jobs in the UK are in welfare, health and education , report reveals - Teaching and nursing are among the most stressful jobs in the UK , a new study has revealed. Almost of half of sick days taken across Britain are as a ...

Young people's charity calls on UK employers to give care leavers more opportunities - The statistics on looked-after children, released last month by the Department for Education , showed 31 per cent of 18-year-old care leavers were ...

British banks can make profit at the same time as fighting poverty - The World Bank yesterday delivered a timely reminder of the importance of the financial sector in promoting the growth necessary to lift people the ...

The Brexit roadblock is causing a laissez-faire crisis of government - Meanwhile, in real world UK , inequality grows, the population ages, and ... General pensioner poverty has been eliminated, although many in ...

Let's not kid ourselves, capitalism is too diseased to save - Wages have also failed to keep step with the rise in the cost of living, meaning that the poverty gap in the UK – one of the largest in the developed ...

The Mum Who's Afraid She'll Pass Her Anxiety Onto Her Kids - But even in light of an objectively hard year, it's important to not place blame for your own (or your child's ) mental health issues. Talk about them, sure.

LGBT Asians turning to marriages of convenience - Several websites help gay British Muslims advertise for marital partners. The BBC spoke to a gay man from Leeds who had a marriage of convenience ...

Rape hell' of football boss in Dubai jail - A FORMER Leeds United football director has claimed he was raped and tortured in a United Arab Emirates jail after being outed as gay . David Haigh ...

Nicola Sturgeon was right to apologise to gay men - Sturgeon was an early and enduring friend of what was then called gay ... When Tony Blair expressed 'our deep sorrow' for Britain's role in the slave ...

Robbie Rogers retires and former Leeds ace admits he regrets not coming out as gay earlier - He said in an interview with The Guardian: "Are people coming to see you because you're gay ? "Would I want to do interviews every day, where ...

Hundreds' of LGBT Asians seeking marriages of convenience - Hundreds of LGBT people from South Asian communities in Britain are going online to find gay partners of the opposite sex for sham marriages, the ...

Unearthed pictures see Kevin Spacey cuddling male model 17 years before coming out as gay - Pictures have resurfaced of Kevin Spacey looking intimate with a male model – 17 years before he came out as gay . The pictures were taken the day ...

How gay men and women met before the internet - The campaign for Homosexual Equality was the largest gay organisation in the UK , peaking in membership in 1979. It provided a network of safe ...

HIV diagnoses in English gay men have been falling since 2014 - One of the big stories in HIV prevention this year has been the dramatic drop in HIV diagnoses being seen among gay men in HIV clinics in London.

Why Supreme Court must tell anti- gay baker his cakes aren´t art - The case, in which a conservative Christian bakery owner seeks the right to discriminate against gay couples, is the latest attempt by conservatives to ...

New jewellery trends from the same-sex marriage industry - Civil partnerships in the UK have declined by 85% since 2013 following the legalisation of same-sex marriage. It was legalised in March 2014 and in ...

Disney Channel pulls Andi Mack from airing in Africa over gay storyline - Disney Channel show Andi Mack recently made history when it featured the network's first ever gay storyline – but not all countries are happy about it.

Scotland to pardon gay men with historical convictions - Stonewall UK , the gay rights campaign group, said UK ministers needed to follow the Scottish government's lead by expanding the kinds of offences ...

Father allegedly shot and killed his 14-year-old son for being gay - I'm sure that inside of his mind, he would rather have a dead son than a gay son,” she said after the 2 November shooting at their home in Henderson, ...

You're all going to die soon': A same-sex marriage supporter's vile remarks to 'No' case ... - A woman was caught on camera telling opponents of same-sex marriage they were going to die soon. In a bizarre exchange, she confronts the 'No' ...

First openly gay lawmaker Ed Flanagan elected to statewide office has died age 66 - The first openly gay man elected to statewide office in the United States has died. Former Vermont state senator Ed Flanagan made history when he ...

You saved me in every way possible': This gay dad's amazing letter to his son has gone viral - Deberth Araujo, who adopted William with his partner Guilherme Gatto in the same year that his father died, thanked the child for “saving him”.