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Exclusive: voluntary organisations struggling as grants for local government and NHS contracts fail to cover costs

Sky-rocketing energy prices, increasing staff costs and an ongoing recruitment crisis mean that early years groups have had no respite in the wake of the pandemic. Annette Rawstrone speaks to some chains about these challenges and their strategies

All Creatures Great And Small is returning to Channel 5 on 15 September. The series returns with a modern twist where women are at the centre of action.

WHEN 17-year-old Brad Hickman’s mother was diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of 43 it was devastating news for the family. There had been no warning. The receptionist at Windsor High School, Halesowen, suffered three seizures one day in December 2010. She got her diagnosis in January and was dead within a few months – on May 11, 2011. Ten years on and Brad still remembers the pain, but also the fantastic support that he, and especially his ten-year-old little sister Rebecca, ...