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Poverty 'no excuse for failing schools'

SCHOOLS will be barred from using poverty as an excuse for poor teaching under plans to be announced by Labour this week.

BITTER RIVALS IN GOOD NICK NOW

TENNIS: Tsitsipas puts record straight on Kyrgios

Leeds want to take off again with flying Diallo

LEEDS are on the trail of Manchester United winger Amad Diallo as they target a quick return to the Premier League.

New boy Mac is jersey sure

LIVERPOOL: All about respect

Streets are 'Wild West' as 'shoplifting ignored'

ENGLAND'S high streets have been compared to the Wild West, with five in six reported shoplifting offences not prosecuted in the past three years.

My gallstones turned out to be twins!

WHEN Chloe Collantine started suffering from acute stomach pains her doctor thought she had gallstones.

Military homes poison risk for thousands of our heroes

THOUSANDS of Armed Forces personnel and their families have been put at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning because vital gas safety tests were delayed.

All secondary schools given defibrillators

ALL STATE secondary schools in England now have access to a life-saving defibrillator.

Now school allows pupil to identify as a mushroom!

A PUPIL at a top Catholic private school has been allowed to identify as a mushroom

Messi move sees ticket prices soar

HOT SHOT Lionel Messi's pulling power has sent the price of tickets for his first US game soaring.

'I was TYPEcast!'

Nicholas only got big break after BBC secretaries told bosses he was a star

Sporty Kate welcomes Federer to royal court

IT WAS the perfect match as the Princess of Wales teamed up with tennis legend Roger Federer for a game at Wimbledon.

RUSSIA ON THE BRINK

Mutineers halt advance as 'Putin flees Moscow'

Labour's 'force of nature' dies of cancer, aged 61

THE woman who co-ordinated New Labour's landslide election victory in 1997 has died after battling brain cancer.

STUBBORN AUSSIES GRIND IT OUT

Bright start from Stokes' men spoiled by errors and Khawaja ton

Investors look to Asia

EMERGING MARKETS were the big investment story 20 years ago but after much excitable talk about how the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India and China - would overtake the West and dominate the global economy, they have struggled to do so

Grylls wants Wills and Kate on wild TV show

ADVENTURER Bear Grylls is keen to get the Prince and Princess of Wales on his TV series Running Wild

Don't go spare, Harry - it's just a bit of satire...

COMEDIAN AI Murray has urged Prince Harry and other famous faces satirised in the Spitting Image stage show not to be offended by the humour

Met Police 'refused to arrest upmarket thief'

A SHOPLIFTER who stole more than £4,000-worth of goods from a luxury department store was only prosecuted because private detectives launched a case against her

ITV drama to portray hanged murderer Ruth Ellis as victim of abuse

RUTH ELLIS would have escaped her fate as the last woman to be hanged in Britain, had the jury been moved by the abuse she suffered, a new drama argues

MP joins tragic Hugh's parents in funding drive

A CAMPAIGN to ensure parents of hospitalised children do not face financial ruin will reach Parliament this week

Lovely jubbly! £20k for Del's Reliant

THE van used by Del Boy and Rodney in Only Fools and Horses has sold for almost £20,000 at auction - but presumably with no money back, no guarantee

Ex-university student in court charged with murder

A FORMER student accused of stabbing three people to death including two 19-year-old undergraduates - and trying to kill three more with a van has appeared before a crowded courtroom

Harry and Meghan branded 'grifters' by Spotify podcast boss

THE DUKE and Duchess of Sussex have been slammed as \"grifters\" in a scathing attack by one of their former Spotify bosses

Eat, drink, be merry...the rain's on its way!

CHILLED-OUT revellers bask in the sun at the Isle of Wight Festival, though \"intense\" thunderstorms may soon dampen their spirits

At 74, King's a real Trooper

KING CHARLES was back in the saddle yesterday, celebrating his official birthday in style

Monarch hails contribution of the 'pioneers' of Windrush

KING CHARLES has told of the \"profound contribution\" made by the Windrush generation

Under-pressure NHS now 'in chaos all the time'

HEALTH leaders have \"lost control of the NHS\", a consultant said, as he warned winter crises have become a year-round phenomenon

Liberal with the cash...Sir Nick forks out £8m for star Firth's home

SIR NICK Clegg has proved to Boris Johnson there is life after politics, by buying Hollywood actor Colin Firth's home for more than £8million

GET A GRIP! SAVE THE ECONOMY

As row over Boris's Partygate rumbles on, MPs told to stop infighting and focus on huge rise in inflation and mortgage costs