BBC Two children have been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a tree fell in a park. Essex Police said they were called to Chalkwell Park in Southend-on-Sea shortly before 15:00 BST on Saturday. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please visit the source link below...
    Before Robby Starbuck became a problem for leftist companies, alerting consumers to stupid woke indoctrination policies, he directed music videos.     He worked with some big names, like Snoop Dogg and Natalie Portman.     In my new video, I remind him that his Snoop Dogg...
Priya Sippy & Anne Okumu BBC News, London & Lilongwe Jack McBrams A chunk of Suzanna Kathumba’s meagre salary goes on school fees, leaving little for other essentials Suzanna Kathumba, a domestic worker in Malawi, spends every day thinking of ways she can economise to make her salary of 80,000 kwacha ($46; £34) a month...
The Biden administration conducted the largest human trafficking operation in modern history, and Trump’s ICE has begun saving the children who were trafficked. Biden administration trafficked illegal immigrant children 🤬 Illegal migrant children smuggled across the border during the Biden administration have been rescued from sex traffickers. https://t.co/7BMxbl0NQ3 — Georgia Log Cabin (@GeorgiaLogCabin) June 27,...
The new members of US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s panel of vaccine advisers will review long-approved immunisation schedules for children and teens. The seven members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) met for the first time on Wednesday, weeks after Kennedy ousted all 17 of their predecessors. The Acip recommends who...
Progress in vaccinating children against a variety of life-threatening diseases has stalled in the past two decades –Â and even gone backwards in some countries – a new global study suggests. The situation has been made worse by the Covid pandemic, leaving millions of children unprotected from diseases such as measles, tuberculosis and polio. The researchers...
“Another appalling attack” on a hospital in Sudan has seen more than 40 people killed, many of them children and medics, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. “We cannot say this louder,” wrote Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on X on Tuesday, “attacks on health must stop everywhere!” Al-Mujlad Hospital was struck on...
Kate McGough Education reporter, BBC News Getty Images Children struggling with their speech and language are at greater risk of developing mental health problems like anxiety and depression, the charity Speech and Language UK has warned in a report seen exclusively by the BBC. The charity says almost half (45%) of all young people referred...
Vanessa Clarke Education reporter Vanessa Clarke / BBC Children with a lazy eye are being increasingly missed for treatment, experts say, in areas where early screenings are not available in schools. Some councils are unable to offer the service due to capacity or budget constraints, according to the Local Government Association (LGA), which is calling...
Peter Hoskins Business reporter, BBC News Pavel Durov/Instagram The multi-billionaire founder of instant messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, says he has fathered more than 100 children. “The clinic, where I started donating sperm 15 years ago to help a friend, told me that more than 100 babies had been conceived this way in 12 countries,”...
Elly Welford I wasn’t expecting to shed a tear while watching hundreds of Bradford schoolchildren performing on stage, with professionals from some of the country’s most prestigious arts institutions. But as they sang and danced about “Five hundred and thirty thousand hearts / Our brilliant city of many parts”, I admit, I welled up. There’s...
Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Homelessness among newborns, infants, and toddlers skyrocketed from 2022 to 2023, impacting 446,996 newborns, infants, and toddlers, according to a new report. SchoolHouse Connection, in partnership with...
Getty Images Young people under the age of 18 are more aware of nicotine pouches, new data suggests. According to a survey commissioned by charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash), the percentage of 11-17 year olds who said they knew of the pouches grew from 38% in 2024 to 43% this year. The survey...
A community project in Exmouth, is aiming to teach more than 1,000 schoolchildren water safety at the seaside. Sideshore Sea Safety was formed in 2022, when it said just one school and a handful of pupils visited the seafront area in East Devon. This year there would be 24 schools and hundreds of children taking...
The Prince and Princess of Wales have shared new photos of Prince William with their three children to mark Father’s Day. One is a portrait shot showing the prince standing with his arms around George and Charlotte while Louis stands in front of him – the other is a landscape image in black and white...