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Women are calling out ‘rape culture’ in UK schools By Megan Specia New York Times,Updated April 1, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend A general view of the prestigious Hampstead School on March 28, 2021 in London, England. Students at the school walked out of classes on Thursday to protest against what they believe is a cover up of 'rape culture'.Hollie Adams/Getty LONDON — For weeks, the harrowing anonymous testimonies have poured in, one after another. Accusations of sexual assault of girls as young as 9. Girls shamed by classmates after intimate photos were circulated witho...

Murray Walker Credit: Gray Mortimore/ Getty Images Murray Walker, who has died aged 97, was for more than half a century the high-octane voice of British motor sport and a consummate exponent of – and, indeed, with a strong claim to have invented – the “pants-on-fire” school of broadcast commentary. At full throttle at the television microphone for a Formula 1 grand prix, Walker would typically let rip with what he called his “crash, bang, wallop” approach, developed during years of commentating on low-budget motocross and rallycross competitions. “I reacted excitedly and enthu...

The battle had been long and bloody, and the street was littered with bodies, but the enemy was not beaten yet. As a 21-year-old British officer leapt from his Sherman tank, he was confronted by a young German soldier. Pale and bespectacled, the officer drew his pistol and waited to discover whether the German, still desperately clutching his weapon, was prepared to stake everything on one last stand. But the man was dying, and no shots were exchanged. Murray Walker would never forget that intense moment in what he called 'a bloody time', as he joined the Allied spearhead into Germany in 1945...

Kathleen Molnar Published: 12:22 PM March 1, 2021    Updated: 12:24 PM March 1, 2021 Highgate Festival pink plaques. Organisers Alicia Pivaro and Catharine Wells with two of the 2020 plaques, commemorating Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, and Harriet Mellon. - Credit: Archant There may be no Chelsea Flower Show or Glastonbury this year, but The Highgate Festival, now in its 4th year, will happen and is something to look forward to. Running from June 19-27, it will be primarily virtual with several physical events if the circumstances permit. It is a unique community festival inside out c...

Published: 1:53 PM February 23, 2021    Updated: 2:13 PM February 23, 2021 Haverstock School headteacher James Hadley (left) and Highgate School head Adam Pettitt (right) - Credit: Haverstock School/Highgate School Local headteachers have welcomed the government’s decision to allow schools to reopen on March 8.   On Monday the prime minister Boris Johnson announced that the return of pupils would form part of the first step of easing lockdown restrictions, amid falling Covid infections.   All primary school children will return on March 8 and they will not need to take a coronavirus te...