A man reportedly turned up unannounced and laid a wreath at the town’s war memorial during a service A 64-year-old man has been arrested following reports that an individual allegedly posed as a highly decorated naval officer at a town’s Remembrance Sunday event in Clwyd. The man reportedly turned up unannounced at the war memorial … Read more
Sensitive information relates to more than 100 individuals and their referees Personal details submitted by applicants for a job at Tate art galleries have been leaked online, exposing their addresses, salaries and the phone numbers of their referees, the Guardian has learned. The records, running to hundreds of pages, appeared on a website unrelated to … Read more
Radio 2 DJ covers 135 miles in five days carrying a Pudsey Bear backpack from Kielder Forest to Leeds The BBC presenter Sara Cox has completed her challenge to run 135 miles in five days, raising more than £9.5m for the Children in Need charity. The 50-year-old, who presents Radio 2’s Teatime show on weekdays, … Read more
Two senior figures have been suspended at site in Kent that has been plagued by failings in past few years Two of the most senior staff running Manston, the controversial processing centre in Kent for small boat arrivals, have been suspended and are under investigation for misconduct, the Guardian has learned. Witnesses said they were … Read more
‘If you wouldn’t mind,’ the instructor says, handing out legal documents to all those who enter, ‘signing your life away’ In the backblocks of the Lockyer Valley, more than an hour’s drive west of Brisbane, is a dead end track thick with scrubby eucalypt regrowth. It is a Saturday morning in late spring and, in … Read more
Senator accuses the government of not treating reform with ‘urgency it deserves’ – with no modelling done on the cost of reversing or replacing the JRG scheme Reversing the program that has left Australia’s arts students paying $50,000 degrees is facing more delay, as the body tasked with reforming the controversial job ready graduates scheme … Read more
Since late 2024, registrations of 11 VET organisations have been cancelled, voiding diplomas, certificates and statements of attainment At least 30,000 people have lost their qualifications in the past year as the regulator cracks down on Australia’s shonky vocational education and training providers. Since late 2024, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has cancelled the … Read more
The $C56bn plan focused on investing in a resource economy falls short of changing Canadians’ day-to-day lives Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, likes to say that when he was young, “we used to build big things in this country, and we used to build them quickly.” That idea – of sprawling projects that transform nations, … Read more
Passengers held on runway for 12 hours after landing in Johannesburg without travel documents South Africa will investigate the “mysterious” arrival of scores of Palestinians who were kept on a charter plane at Johannesburg for 12 hours by border police because they did not have travel papers, the president has said. A group of 153 … Read more
Minister rejects claims Māori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to the Treaty of Waitangi As cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local Māori elder cried. She was standing at the site of the massacre at Rangiaowhia, where Māori were deliberately burnt to … Read more