Playground spinner and monkey bars by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Parts of Dutch society are campaigning to bring risky playgrounds back into their cities and towns as concerns about too much time spent indoors, helicopter parenting, and childhood diabetes risk grow. Some are merely advocating playgrounds with potentially dangerous toys, such as a…

Sex Matters Sandie Peggie was suspended after a row over changing rooms A Fife nurse who was suspended after complaining about sharing a changing room with a transgender colleague has begun giving evidence at an employment tribunal. Sandie Peggie claims being made to get changed beside Dr Beth Upton – who is a trans woman…

A 14-year-old girl who stabbed two teachers and a pupil has been found guilty of attempted murder. Fiona Elias, Liz Hopkin and the pupil were hospitalised after the attack at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, Carmarthenshire, in April last year. The 14-year-old girl, who cannot be named due to her age, previously denied three counts of attempted…

Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images US President Donald Trump has sparked a trade war by imposing tariffs on imports from his country’s neighbours Canada and Mexico. Canada has responded in kind, and Mexico has also said it will retaliate. The three countries have deeply integrated economies and supply chains, with an estimated…

Getty Images Offenders convicted of coercive or controlling behaviour now face tougher management from police and probation services in England and Wales, meaning the crime is “on a par” with other domestic abuse offences. From Monday, those convicted of the crime and sentenced to 12 months or more will automatically be managed under multi-agency public…

Credit insung yoon, via Unsplash A clever veterinarian is helping address a shortage of IV fluids for animal care by accepting donations of leftover fluids from blood banks. Though hospital regulations in Australia and likely in most countries dictate that leftover intravenous fluid, also known as saline, should be discarded for sanitary standards, its use…

A teenage boy has been arrested after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed at a school in South Yorkshire. The victim suffered serious injuries in the incident at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield and had been taken to hospital for treatment, according to police. Emergency services were called to the school on Granville Road…

The leader of a pro-Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine has died in hospital after being injured in an explosion in Moscow on Monday morning, Russian media have said. Armen Sargsyan, the leader of the “Arbat” battalion, was severely injured following a blast in the entrance hall of a residential building in north-west Moscow, 12km…

Judith Burns & Nathan Standley BBC News Getty Images The government will step in more quickly to help struggling schools based on the findings of new Ofsted report cards, the education secretary has said. Bridget Phillipson said in a speech on Monday that the old single-word Ofsted judgements, which were scrapped last year, were “too…

A teenage girl has died after being attacked by a shark in Queensland, Australia. Paramedics responded to reports of a “serious shark bite incident” at Woorim Beach, just north of Brisbane, around 16:45 local time (06:45 GMT) on Monday, Queensland Ambulance Service wrote on X. Police confirmed that the girl had suffered life-threatening injuries and…