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Atkin wins halfpipe bronze for Team GB’s fifth medal

Today at 13:07 PM, via BBC News

Freestyle skier Zoe Atkin wins bronze in the women’s halfpipe to secure Great Britain’s fifth medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics, equalling the team’s record-best haul.

Africa

‘Emotional’ Mourinho should apologise – McCarthy

Friday at 13:43 PM, via BBC News

Benni McCarthy says Jose Mourinho should admit his “mistake” following the Benfica manager’s post-match comments after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr claimed he was racially abused.

Education

Minister says children in England will get support more quickly under Send overhaul

Today at 13:58 PM, via The Guardian

Bridget Phillipson says government is ‘not taking away support’ as she prepares to announce changes

UK politics live – latest updates

Bridget Phillipson has pledged that under the government’s overhaul of the special educational needs system it will take weeks for children to get access to support, not months or years – as she prepares to announce the controversial changes.

Speaking before...

Education

Ministers lay out plans to reduce gap between poorest and most affluent pupils – UK politics live

Today at 11:16 AM, via The Guardian

The government plans to halve the attainment gap in England

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, will be speaking to the BBC and Sky News shortly and will likely be asked about government plans to halve the attainment gap between the poorest pupils in England and their more affluent peers.

The schools white paper, set to be...

Education

Ministers to set out plans to halve attainment gap in England’s schools

Today at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

White paper proposes changing criteria under which schools get funding to support the most disadvantaged students

Plans to halve the attainment gap between the poorest pupils in England and their more affluent peers will be set out by the government on Monday.

The schools white paper will detail proposals to change the criteria under which schools receive funding to support the most...

Science/Tech

Has the AI Disruption Arrived – and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?

Today at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

Programmer/entrepreneur Paul Ford is the co-founder of AI-driven business software platform Aboard. This week he wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled “The AI Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun,” arguing that Anthropic’s Claude Code “was always a helpful coding assistant, but in November it suddenly got much better, and ever since I’ve been knocking off side projects that...

Health

A Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study

Friday at 16:25 PM, via New York Times

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in later stages of the disease.