The children are encouraged to help in the library or as maths mentors, but to do so, they must fill in application forms and be interviewed. Some of them are unsuccessful and given feedback on how to improve. "It sounds a bit brutal," says the school's deputy headteacher, Vicky Page. …

The new contract is set to run for five years and is estimated at £27m, far more than the value of the contract awarded to Crawford in 2021, but still significantly less than the amount paid to it over the course of its agreement

He reprised the role in 1974's The Godfather Part II, by which time he had collaborated with Foote again in the 1972 film of his play Tomorrow. Network, from 1976, cast him as a venal television producer

"My dad was always massively into Oasis, so I grew up listening to it, and I was always such a big fan of him and how funny he is," he says. "So to get to play him is just a dream

"While [the bone] would not represent one of the mythical specimens Hannibal took across the Alps, it could potentially embody the first known relic − so sought after by European scholars of the Modern Age − of the animals used in the Punic Roman wars for the control of the …

The paper says the link hadn't been possible before because of bureaucracy. It quotes researchers as saying that now NHS England has taken over the legal liability for the data, they will be able to use it to understand what's really causing disease and help them solve major health challenges

Most puffiness isn't a medical issue and will settle on its own but Tina says that "if it's persistent, worsening, painful or associated with other symptoms such as breathlessness or swelling elsewhere in the body, it should be assessed medically"

Austrian ski jumper Daniel Tschofenig said he felt "extremely stupid" after being disqualified from the men's large hill individual event for wearing oversized boots. Tschofenig, 23, had comfortably qualified for Saturday's final but his Winter Olympics medal hopes were dashed due to an error with his kit. The 2025 World …

Dave Ryding can pinpoint the exact moment he first dreamed of competing at a Winter Olympics. "It was actually in a religious education lesson. I'm not sure I was paying enough attention to the teacher. " On Monday, that daydreaming lad from Lancashire raced at his fifth and final Olympics, …

Great Britain's men's curling Winter Olympics medal hopes have been cast into doubt after a shock 8-6 defeat by Norway left them scrambling to make the semi-finals in Cortina. Bruce Mouat's world champions had lost two of their opening six matches, but were expected to beat the Norwegians for their …