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A Met Police officer who stalked his former girlfriend in a six-month campaign has been fired from the force.PC Jonathan Simon, 44, met the woman when he was on duty when called out to a neighbour dispute, and struck up a romantic relationship with her.But after they split up, he refused to leave her alone and repeatedly showed up outside her home.

L ondon schools have missed out on a share of 42million of levelling-up money which is being given to areas with high numbers of poor students.An expert said it was inconceivable that no areas of London would receive the cash, aimed at boosting literacy, numeracy and attendance in schools.A total of 24 areas, including Liverpool, Nottingham and Doncaster, will instead share the Local Needs Funding after being named as priority education investment areas.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley arrive to a hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on March 28, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Following weeks of acrimonious debate in Congress, President Joe Biden signed into law on Friday a bill that suspends the debt ceiling until 2025.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Ryan Reynolds told the chairman of a Wrexham futsal club he is so happy the U12s team were excited by the arrival of brand new kits after the Deadpool star donated 1,600 to the cause.

This was an interesting week for the Miami Marlins and there have been various reports that are important to look at.The Hall of Fame vote is on the way and two former Miami Marlins players are on the ballot.We also learned that The Fish were actually in on José Abreu, before he signed with the Houston Astros.

There's a new twist in the fast-moving housing market with welcome news for renters: After an 18-month period of red-hot rent growth, the apartment market has turned ice cold over the past few months.It's another area of the economy that's in the process of unwinding after experiencing an unsustainable boom in activity and price growth during the pandemic.

Satisfaction with the NHS has plummeted to a record low of just 29% amid intense public frustration with long waits for care, understaffing and lack of government funding.The striking picture of deep and growing disenchantment with the health service is mirrored by a recent spike in dissatisfaction with the NHS overall to 51% double what it was in just 2020 as well as a range of key services including GP care (42%), dentistry (42%) and A&E (40%).

Junior doctors in England have agreed to formal talks with the government after a three-day strike this week in which more than 175,000 appointments and procedures had to be postponed, according to data published by NHS England.The postponements had to be made to protect emergency, critical and urgent care for patients as a result of the industrial action on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

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The global trade in blood plasma takes center stage in Kathleen McLaughlin's book, "Blood Money."NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the author about her experiences with, and reporting on, the industry.SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The U.S. economy gets about as much money from selling blood products overseas as it does from soybeans - more than $24 billion in 2021.

Microsoft is previewing two new Azure general-purpose virtual machines that will give organizations running compute-intensive workloads more options for balancing costs and performance.The Azure Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VMs are addons to the Dv5 and Ev5 VMs, which went live in November.The pitch was to offer better price-performance for general-purpose and memory-intensive jobs by being both scalable (up to 96 virtual CPUs) and running on Intel's Xeon Platinum third-generation (Ice Lake) hyperthreaded processors.

If you're looking for a premium Android tablet, Samsung's Galaxy Tabs are terrific options.Not only do the latest Galaxy Tab S8 models compete head to head with the rival iPad in terms of design and build quality, but Samsung's slate also comes with a few features not available on Apple's tablet, including a desktop DeX mode, various screen sizes and resolutions, and integration into the Samsung and Windows ecosystems.

The threat of strike action still hangs over schools in England after talks between teaching unions and the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, ended with no concrete progress, although the door remains open for further discussions.Union leaders described the meeting as constructive, but with no extra money for teachers on the table, strikes could be just weeks away.

The system for moving lone asylum-seeking children out of hotels and into long-term care placements is overloaded and simply cannot cope, a council leader has warned.Society cannot and should not have such children staying in hotels, said councillor James Jamieson, who called for a better system across the country.

Getting ahead in life can be very hard, especially with how extreme inflation has been since the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.In order to make extra money, some people have begun to engage in polywork, or working more than one full-time job at the same time.The rise in remote work made this more possible, and some people think it's a great way to move up in economic class.

The NHS is treating fewer patients than it was pre-pandemic despite more funding and staff  suggesting a long-term Covid impact on the health service's performance, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.The NHS carried out 14% fewer emergency admissions, 14% fewer outpatient appointments and 11% fewer elective and maternity admissions in the latest month of data than it did in the same period in 2019, according to the IFS.

National Health Service nurses say inadequate pay and staffing shortages put themselves and patients in danger.Demonstrators, holding placards and banners, gather during a strike by NHS nursing staff outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London, United Kingdom, on December 15, 2022.Rasid Necati Aslim / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Tens of thousands of nurses across the United Kingdom are set to walk off the job Thursday in what's been described as the largest-ever strike by National Health Service workers, who said they were forced to act after the government refused to negotiate over pay amid painfully high inflation.

State schools in England will receive a funding boost of 2.3bn a year for the next two years, Jeremy Hunt has announced, with the Treasury saying the extra funds amount to an average cash increase for every pupil of more than 1,000 by 2024-25 compared with last year.The extra cash would see core schools funding rise from 53.8bn this year to 58.8bn by 2025, meeting a previous pledge by the government to restore funding for pupils up to the age of 16 back to 2010 levels in real terms.

Some UC Berkeley College Corps Fellows and staff at the swearing-in ceremony on Oct. 7, 2022.Credit: California Volunteers, Office of the Governor At a ceremony earlier this month, 98 UC Berkeley students were sworn in as the first class volunteers as part of CollegeCorps, a new state program that pays low- and middle-income college students $10,000 to do 450 hours of community service.

Long seen as one of the most popular destinations for English language teachers, Spain offers countless opportunities for those looking to spend a few years abroad sampling the best of what the famed Mediterranean lifestyle offers.But what to expect in terms of living and working in Spain can often be quite different to what budding teachers imagine.