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Parent Power 2024: The Times releases its list of Best UK schools & league table

The Sunday Times releases Parent Power 2024 UK guide

A pub customer has been caught on CCTV placing their own hair into their food in an attempt to get a refund for their meal. (Credit: Tom Croft / SWNS)

Watch: pub customer puts their own hair into their food to get refund

Boy, 14, dies at school following ‘isolated incident’

Love Island 2023: I’m a Celeb winner Carl Fogarty’s daughter Claudia enters villa - and has her eye on Tom

Love Island 2023: Meet Blackburn babe Claudia

Mullberry Homes received a series of Improvement and Prohibition Notices because of their unsafe work standards, but repeatedly failed to comply.

House builder fined £117,000 for multiple safety failings

Wooler’s Laurie Blackburn, whose knock of 120 not out was the highest league score achieved by a player for the Glendale side.

Wooler's Blackburn hits record breaking cricket club score

Alnwick Rugby Club.

Second successive loss for Alnwick rugby

A police vehicle sits outside of the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, some 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Dallas (Photo by Andy JACOBSOHN / AFP) (Photo by ANDY JACOBSOHN/AFP via Getty Images)

Two teenagers arrested in UK over 10-hour Texas synagogue siege

Alnwick RFC.

Alnwick lose at home to impressive Blackburn

Alnwick Rugby Club.

Alnwick rugby lose at Blackburn

Testicular cancer tends to mostly affect men between 15 and 49 years of age (Photo: Shutterstock)

Testicular cancer symptoms and treatment explained - as Lincoln manager Michael ...

13 English councils breach WHO 5% threshold for positive Covid tests ahead of pl...

The government will wait for the latest data on 14 June before deciding if lockdown measures can be lifted (Photo: Getty Images)

Ministers warn some lockdown measures may still be needed after 21 June

Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick are among those MPs whose constituencies have avoided lockdown despite seeing high rates of infection (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Local coronavirus restrictions seem to target poorer areas - but is it fair?

Blackburn with Darwen currently has the highest coronavirus infection rates in England (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the 15 areas in England with the worst coronavirus infection rates rig...

(Photo: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Oldham in Greater Manchester is the latest UK area to impose a local lockdown

Alnwick Rugby Club.

Alnwick defeat in last rugby game before ban

The damaged caused to the Thrum Mill Bridge following an incident last month.

Call for action after damage to Rothbury bridges

The closures will take place between March and April this year (Photo: Shutterstock)

Virgin Media announces closure of 25 UK stores - here’s the full list of locatio...