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• ‘I just give from my heart’: how Dolly Parton’s philanthropy focused most on helping children August 26, 2026
  Parton put her millions behind causes she believed in – from Covid vaccines to the Imagination Library, which sends children around the world a free book every monthDolly Parton dies aged 80 | Celebrity tributes | A life in picturesParton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside outShare your tributes and memories of Dolly PartonIn […]
  Sian Cain
• Year of after-school care now costs £2,800 a child in parts of UK August 25, 2026
  Bills have jumped 42% in England over the past 10 years – and that excludes the cost of breakfast clubs and extracurricular activities Parents of primary schoolchildren in England will pay 42% more for after-school childcare this year than they did 10 years ago, with annual bills now exceeding more than £2,800 a child in […]
  Donna Ferguson
• How can we stop destroying the prospects of a generation? Scrapping compulsory GCSE resits will be a start | Polly Toynbee August 24, 2026
  Michael Gove calls the axing of his Tory strategy ‘bringing back stupid’. He doesn’t seem to care that it did more harm than good GCSE results day was marked with the usual front pages filled with pictures of beaming students. What you didn’t see was the invisible third of 16-year-olds in England who failed their […]
  Polly Toynbee
• We would like to hear from young people in England who didn’t pass English and/or Maths GCSE August 24, 2026
  How did it affect your plans for either further education or getting a job? Did you go through resits? Tell us The government plans to introduce a new “stepping stone” qualification from 2028 for students in England who do not achieve a pass in GCSE maths or English.The new preparatory level 1 qualifications - one […]
  Guardian community team
• ‘Standard’ velvet hangers? There’s nothing standard about some of the items on John Lewis’s uni essentials list| Emma Beddington August 24, 2026
  It used to be that dorm rooms were chaotically messy. Does this new generation really need an £80 spice rack and velvet clothes hangers?Of all the questions this year’s freshers may be nervously asking themselves as they prepare for this next phase – did I pick the right course? Will I make friends? Is uni […]
  Emma Beddington
• UK graduate job vacancies plunge to lowest in a decade August 24, 2026
  Just 8,383 jobs for people leaving university were advertised in July, says recruitment website AdzunaBusiness live – latest updatesGraduate job vacancies in the UK have sunk to their lowest level since they started being tracked a decade ago, according to a recruiting website.Just 8,383 jobs for people leaving university were advertised in July, Adzuna reported […]
  Alex Daniel
• Labour stalling on Jackdaw and Rosebank because ‘heart’s not really in it’, says Badenoch – as it happened August 21, 2026
  This blog is now closed. See all our UK politics coverage hereAfter Emily Thornberry’s call for the government to ban goods from the occupied West Bank (see post at 11:05), Peter Beaumont and Quique Kierszenbaum report on how Israeli settler attacks in areas designated for a future Palestinian state and currently under direct Palestinian control […]
  Tom Ambrose (now) and Taz Ali (earlier)
• I asked 13 college grads for dorm essentials that stood the test of time August 21, 2026
  I asked 13 people about the things they have carried from college into adulthood –and found their modern day equivalentsThe best Labor Day sales on products from Ninja, Garmin, Our Place and moreSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsOne of the highlights of the summer before college […]
  Megan Reynolds