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Free schools approved in London

The Department for Education today gave approval for 102 new free schools across the country.

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Music free school backed by Chase and Status producer approved

A music academy in east London backed by a top producer and a school for autistic children in Lambeth are among the free schools which have been approved today.

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Meat back on the menu at Westminster schools

Meat is to be reintroduced in school canteens across Westminster within weeks.

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Joseph Gullifer was jailed for ten months. Picture: BTP

Jail for Harold Hill man who beat Tube passenger on New Year’s Day

A man who viciously assaulted a Tube passenger in the early hours of New Year’s Day has been jailed, following a British Transport Police (BTP) investigation.

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Headteacher Jo Shuter has been issued a formal final written warning. Picture: Jonathan Goldberg.

Top headteacher at Quintin Kynaston Academy allowed to return with final warning

An award-winning Westminster headteacher has been reinstated after an eight-month suspension following allegations of financial irregularities.

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More jobs could be created if skills powers given to London boroughs, says report

London is being failed by the current approach to skills, a new report has said today.

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Warning over London’s huge school place shortage

More than 118,000 primary and secondary school places will be needed in London by 2016/17, a new report has warned.

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Police probe ex-councillor condemned over race comments

Police have said they looking into widely-condemned remarks about immigrant school children made by a former Conservative Party councillor.

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Lucas Rosselli, one, from London, inspects a model landscape of London made from 2,186 sugar cubes. Picture: Geoff Caddick/PA Wire

Sweet! London skyline made out of sugar cubes

It might look sweet, but a sugar cube recreation of London’s skyline is not for eating.

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