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1 week ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
PLAYWRIGHT Samuel Beckett’s semi-autobiographical one-acter has been performed by a whole load of old Krapps over the years — even though the legendary Irish actor Patrick Magee, who the play was written for, was a mere 36 when it was first staged in 1958. The existentialist hour-long play ingeniously adopts the tape recorder as a device to explore themes of love, loss, loneliness, meaning, memory, mortality and regret.
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4 weeks ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
TOXIC social media influencers such as Andrew Tate are fuelling an increase in misogyny and sexism in schools, teachers have warned. Nearly three in five teachers said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils’ behaviour in schools, according to a poll by the NASUWT teaching union.
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1 month ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
LABOUR has been accused of double standards after failing to save the steelworks at Port Talbot in south Wales despite doing so in Scunthorpe. Tata Steel was allowed to shut its blast furnaces at Port Talbot in September with the loss of 2,800 jobs. But Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government passed emergency legislation in a single day on Saturday to save British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant in Lincolnshire.
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1 month ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
Kelly Lee OwensBrighton ChalkWELSH electronic artist Kelly Lee Owens used to be a nurse before pursuing music — a decision encouraged by her own patients, who recognised her talent. They were not wrong.
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1 month ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
LEEDS faces a complete collapse of its care system as 12 of the city’s providers threaten to withdraw their services, GMB union warned today. The care companies, which represent half the city’s providers, have written to Leeds City Council saying they will be forced to stop looking after their 1,500 service users unless the council stumps up more cash. The cost of care provision will rise by an estimated 8.6 per cent due to National Insurance increases and inflation.
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1 month ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
PROTESTERS disrupted proceedings in the House of Lords today to demand the abolition of the unelected chamber. They threw leaflets, shouted and sang from the public gallery during the demonstration at noon. The House was adjourned for a short time as the demonstrators were escorted out. Protester Lucy Porter, 50, a primary school teacher from Leeds, said she was “campaigning for a house of the people.”On the Lords, she said: “It’s a symbol of everything that’s outdated.
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1 month ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
ANOTHER person has died after being pulled from the water while trying to cross the English Channel, the French coastguard said today. A rescue operation was launched after reports that a group of people tried to board a dinghy and got into difficulty in the Equihen-Plage area, in northern France, shortly after 9am today. The boat had set off further south near Hardelot-Plage an hour earlier, according to the authority.
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2 months ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
FLIGHTS need to be taxed to curb the growth in aviation, climate advisers have warned, as the government prepares to decide on airport expansion plans. In its latest advice for how to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the climate change committee is urging the government to commit to an 87 per cent cut on 1990 levels by 2040 overall. Aviation emissions would need to fall by 17 per cent compared with 2023 and the industry must take responsibility for them reaching zero by 2050, it said.
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2 months ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
SCRAPPING the two-child benefit cap is essential for any credible poverty strategy, a think tank has said. The Resolution Foundation projected that a three-child limit on benefits could cut child poverty by 320,000 by the end of this parliament. Labour has been under pressure, including from within the party, to abolish the policy amid record highs rates of child poverty. The government’s child poverty taskforce is due to present a strategy in spring.
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2 months ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Will Stone
SPECIAL schools in England face more severe teaching shortages and have a larger number of unqualified teachers than the average school, research has found. According to the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), special schools face workforce challenges due to the higher staff-to-pupil ratio required. They are also more likely to be affected by teaching assistant shortages, it found.
