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A group of parents claims local admission policy boosts Black and Latino students while constraining Asian applicants.
A group of parents claims local admission policy boosts Black and Latino students while constraining Asian applicants.
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<p>Transport hub will offer through trains between Leeds and Manchester with ‘turn-up-and-go’ service</p><p>A new railway station will be built in Bradford to “transform how people travel across the north”, the government has announced.</p><p>The station will be at the heart of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/13/northern-powerhouse-rail-project-pledge-funds">Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) scheme</a>, built on the current Bradford Interchange site but allowing through trains between Leeds and Manchester.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/20/bradford-railway-station-transform-travel-north">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Rise in economic hardship and changes in attitudes towards migration could explain drop in support, experts say</p><p>Public support for the NHS’s founding principles – that it is free to use, available to everyone and tax-funded – has fallen over the last five years, research has shown.</p><p>Backing for all three pillars dropped between 2021 and 2025 across the UK population, except for a small rise in millennials’ support for the NHS being funded from taxation.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/20/public-support-founding-principles-nhs-falling-across-uk-population">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Selina Cartmell announces season including Stockport-set version of Phaedra myth by Simon Stephens</p><p>A theatre boss has promised to channel the “pioneering spirit of Manchester” and be “brave and fearless” as she unveiled a new season of work, two years after a deeply damaging censorship row.</p><p>Selina Cartmell, the artistic director of the <a href="https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/">Royal Exchange in Manchester</a>, revealed details of 2027-28 productions that include a retelling of the Munich air disaster and a modern Stockport-set version of the ancient Greek myth Phaedra.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/20/royal-exchange-theatre-boss-selina-cartmell-new-plays-censorship-row">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Critics said images of detained former leader were a stunt by the military to end country’s diplomatic isolation</p><p>Myanmar has delivered presents from Britain’s King Charles to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/aung-san-suu-kyi">Aung San Suu Kyi</a>, releasing rare photos of the imprisoned former leader in what critics said was a stunt by the country’s military to end diplomatic isolation.</p><p>A presidential spokesperson said <a href="https://www.facebook.com/61590345011686/posts/122143435659344833/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=87EGEjBYeLatGeUb#">on social media</a> that home ministry officials handed over two gardening books on soil, “along with one sealed envelope and a sealed diplomatic pouch”, from King Charles, who is known to have an interest in planting and the environment.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/20/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-rare-photos-gift-king-charles">Continue reading...</a>