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Boston school improving since ‘inadequate’ rating, but more needs to be done to remove it from special measures, says Ofsted

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A secondary school in Boston has improved since being judged as ‘inadequate’ in 2024, but more needs to be done to remove it from special measures, Ofsted has said.

October 17, 2025 |

Drag acts, detractors and true-blue diehards: my weird weekend at a Margaret Thatcher festival

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For some, she was a hero. For others, quite the opposite. On 13 October, the prime minister who looms large over British politics would have turned 100 – and a gathering in Grantham celebrated her days in power

The bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher by the sculptor Douglas Jennings has a rating of 2.8 out of five on Google Maps. Although curiously, none of the reviewers seems to have overly preoccupied themselves with the quality of the craftsmanship or the fidelity of the likeness. “One of the most important PMs this country ever had,” writes one. “It’s a public toilet but there’s nowhere to wash your hands,” writes another.

The statue was originally commissioned more than a decade ago, and was intended to stand in front of the Houses of Parliament, but Westminster city council rejected it on the grounds that it might become a target for vandalism. Instead, it was offered to her birthplace of Grantham, a town she left at the age of 18 and rarely visited again. Within hours of its installation, someone threw an egg at it. Shortly after that, it was defaced with red paint. And now, on a grey October afternoon, Margaret Thatcher herself is gazing upon it, bearing a look of pure disgust.

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October 16, 2025 |

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

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Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

Ed Miliband has approved the UK’s biggest solar farm, which will be built in a county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has won rising support.

The energy secretary on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the Tillbridge solar farm to be developed near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. Once built, it will generate enough electricity to power 300,000 UK homes.

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October 14, 2025 |