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After a long hiatus, your favourite series School Daze is back! What better way to reintroduce the series than by featuring the school that was attended by the prime minister and his wife. Nestled at 35 St John’s Road, Spanish Town is the beacon St Catherine High School, with the motto ‘Preces et Opera Omnia Vincunt’, which simply states ‘Prayer and Work Conquer All’. With colours blue and white, which are embedded in the words of the school song, ‘Dear St Catherine High’, the s...

How this Christmas allowed my family to confront my father’s absence Ever since my father’s death, we had spent Christmas Day at a restaurant. But this year we finally stayed at home and celebrated together once more.  My father’s second job, at a minicab service in Wimbledon, had always intrigued me most during the Christmas period. It was normally a Friday and Saturday evening job, but with the promise of double pay, my dad would work Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, returning in ...

A TALENTED teenager has talked her way to success after finishing second in a prestigious speech competition. Teachers at Hedingham School and Sixth Form are over the moon after pupil Honey Scott, 16, scooped second place at the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge grand final. The Jack Petchey Foundation was set up to inspire young people by providing exciting projects for them to get involved in. More than 20,000 students from schools across the country competed for the top prize in the c...

Steven Roberts A STUDENT died after falling off a boat while on a stag do trip to Prague, an inquest heard. A hearing at Bolton Coroners Court heard how Steven Roberts, 19, was part of group who boarded a boat for an evening cruise down the river in the Czech capital in June 2019. But just four minutes into the voyage on June 24, Mr Roberts disappeared from view. The inquest heard how the former Thornleigh Salesian College fell over a low railing on the boat’s top deck, hitting his he...

Primary School halls are being used in Wirral to hold stocks of food hampers that are being distributed across the borough. Photo: Wirral Council More than 8,000 hampers of food and 9,000 activity packs are being delivered to families in need of support across Wirral. The community backed effort, is being made possible after Wirral Council secured more than £1.2 million from the Government’s Covid Winter Grant Scheme. More than £385,000 is being dedicated to helping support families a...

Date of birth: 28-05-1964 David Baddiel’s first brush with comedy was in 1982 when he wrote and performed in the Sixth Form revue at The Haberdashers Aske School, Elsetree, before developing his talents while a student at Kings College, Cambridge. As well as graduating with a double-first in English Literature, he was vice president of the Footlights. On leaving, he performed stand-up on the London circuit, while working on a PhD entitled Seductive Innocence: The Little Girl In Victorian Sexu...

Kenilworth school buys land for new building Its current site will eventually be used for housing Kenilworth school main entrance (Image: Kenilworth School) Never miss another Warwickshire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy...

L-r - sister Robyn Barrie, clinical support worker Lesley Bucknall and sister Rebekah Flight with some of the donations SCHOOLCHILDREN across the Dudley borough have been getting creative and putting their pens to paper by making and donating written Christmas cards to give to patients in hospital on Christmas Day. After the success of its Inpatient Christmas Card Appeal last year, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust has been reaching out to schools across the borough, asking them to dona...

Jordan Ion, Brodie Coulthard and Ross French are endeavouring to run 10km at the end of the school day on the lanes around their homes. They originally intended to raise £150 but have surpassed this within three days of fundraising. Speeding round the town to help those most in need. Three teenagers have donned their running shoes and pounded the roads to smash their target. The trio Jordan Ion, 17, Brodie Coulthard, 17 and Ross French, 16 all attend Nelson Thomlinson sixth form wanted to ...

Posted on A school in Bury St Edmunds is celebrating after raising more that £12,000 for a selection of Charities. County Upper School’s annual charity week would usually see the whole school come together with a variety of events to raise money for charity. The school said “It would have been very easy to cancel our charity activity this Christmas. However, so many charities have had a really difficult year and our school’s charity event each year is an integral part of everything C...