WHAT THEY SAY
A quality school meal helps improve children’s concentration and behaviour during lessons. We witness, first-hand, the effect they can have on improving school attendance, on children’s health, and academic performance. However, the intensifying cost-of-living crisis means many more are now struggling to afford school lunches - Teaching unions in a letter to ministers asking for the free school meals scheme to be expanded.
She has been in my dining room in various stages of dress. The first night she was out I felt like I had to go down and say goodnight to her because I’d got into the routine of doing it! - Anita Armitt, 66, on a mannequin used by the Holmes Chapel Community Yarn Bombers, a group of knitters, to create a life-size woollen replica of the monarch.
Millions of drivers will now be faced with a bill of £100 or more to fill up their cars. While many drivers will sensibly be seeking to maximise their miles per gallon by going easy on the throttle, the risk now is that some might misjudge the difference between running low and running out in the hope that tomorrow’s prices will be lower - RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding, speaking as petrol prices rose by nearly 3p per litre over the last week.
Upon learning about Sir Henry and Jim for the first time, I couldn’t help but run amok with ideas about what it must have been like for this unlikely pet to be living in such an amazing museum - Dame Emma Thompson on how the real-life tale of the founder of the V&A Museum and his Yorkshire Terrier inspired her to write a children’s book.