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Artificial intelligence tools will be rolled out in classrooms across England to help reduce teachers’ workloads, the Prime Minister has said. Rishi Sunak has announced a £2 million investment in new classroom technology, including AI-designed lesson plans and quizzes. The funding will be used by online classroom resource Oak National Academy to improve the technologies for use in schools across England, before they are rolled out for teachers. It follows […]

Fawlty Towers star John Cleese has claimed that comedy troupe Monty Python was an early target of “cancel culture”. The comedy actor is presenting a new show called The Dinosaur Hour which will include an episode on cancel culture, a subject of interest to Cleese. The 84-year-old was in Monty Python’s Life Of Brian, which many argued should be banned when it was released in 1979. Speaking about censorship in […]

A fifth celebrity has been eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing after a dance-off which one judge said featured “fighting spirit” from both couples. Former Love Island star Zara McDermott and Graziano Di Prima have lost their chance to lift the Glitterball trophy later this year after their Charleston dance to Jeepers Creepers by Al Donahue and his Orchestra failed to impress judges on Sunday’s pre-recorded BBC One show. McDermott, 26, […]

Patients could be able to access cutting-edge treatments faster under Labour’s plans to set up a watchdog to speed up innovation. The Opposition party said its proposals for a Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) would hold regulators to account for delays in sign-off life-saving medicines and other technological advances in a move it forecast could boost economic growth. Labour said the RIO, which Sir Keir Starmer’s outfit intends to set up […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told his nation that the military has opened a “second stage” in the war against Hamas by sending ground forces into Gaza and expanding attacks from the ground, air and sea. He said these will only increase ahead of a broad ground invasion into the territory. Mr Netanyahu added: “It will be long and difficult. We are ready.” An Israeli bombardment, described by Gaza […]

Jude Bellingham admitted he had done something great after almost single-handedly winning his first El Clasico for Real Madrid. The England midfielder scored a stunning equaliser and dramatic stoppage-time clincher as Real came from behind to beat arch-rivals Barcelona 2-1 at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium on Saturday. It continued Bellingham’s extraordinary start as a Real Madrid player, with the 20-year-old having now scored 13 goals in as many appearances […]

A man has committed to running across the Arctic in memory of his late childhood friend. Dan Day, 27, will take part in the Polar Circle Marathon in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, on October 28. He is running in memory of Alex Bryant, who died in March 2023. Mr Bryant, a lifeguard from Littlehampton in Sussex, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in 2017. In the following five years he had […]

The Government should ensure the Six Nations remains on free-to-air television by placing the tournament in the top bracket of its listed events, a parliamentary committee has said. The annual tournament has to date always been wholly available free to air in the UK, but is not protected from remaining so in the future, in the same way that the Olympic Games and the men’s and women’s football World Cups […]

A company which aims to launch satellites into space from Shetland has received £3.5 million from the UK Space Agency. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) plans to have its first blast-off from SaxaVord Spaceport on Unst – the northernmost tip of the UK – next year. The funding will go to the UK subsidiary of the German company. It had planned to complete its first orbital launch by the end of […]