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A new OECD Education report shows SNP continuing to fail Scotland’s children.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) rankings for 2022, which showed Scotland’s performance in maths, reading and science has declined since 2018. Scotland’s average reading score was 493 – higher than the OECD average but a fall of 11 points from the 2018 score of 504. […]

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Dementia sufferer, 91, dies because of carers’ language barrier.

Language is a system used by a nation, people, or other distinct community to communicate information, thoughts, and feelings. In other words, it is essential to any functional society and human existence. It shouldn’t be too challenging to imagine the problems arising when a society doesn’t share a common language. On the more trivial side

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Nottinghamshire sex offender jailed.

A dangerous sex offender has been jailed after sending explicit messages and arranging to meet a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Naveed Sultan, 38, had been sending the girl sexually explicit messages, unaware that the person he was texting was an adult posing as a teenager. After arranging a meeting place, the

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Solar farms

Earlier this month, we reported on proposals to build two major solar farms in Nottinghamshire: a 76-hectare solar farm between Caunton and Kelham and the four-mile-wide Great North Road Solar Park, west of Newark. Over the past couple of weeks, there have been several developments which we can happily report on. More parish councils are

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