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Pupils defy girls uniform ruling at Bedford school with three days of protests

Pupils defy girls uniform ruling at Bedford school with three days of protests Row centres around skorts - a pair of shorts with an overlapping fabric panel made to resemble a skirt Friday, 30th April 2021, 4:52 pm Hundred of pupils at Sharnbrook Academy have refused to go to lessons for three days in protest at a change to the girls uniform policy. Angry parents contacted Bedford Today about the protests which began on Wednesday (April 28) - and vowed their children would continue until there is a U-turn by the school. The row centres around the girl s wearing skorts - a pair of shorts with an overlapping fabric panel made to resemble a skirt.

Obituary: Tom Moore, a hero who gave a nation hope

BBC News Published At times of crisis, a nation needs hope and heroes. Sometimes, they re found in unlikely places - and when Britain first locked down against the coronavirus pandemic, it discovered Captain Sir Tom Moore. In April 2020 the then 99-year-old war veteran accepted a little family challenge: to raise £1,000 for health service charities by walking 100 lengths of his garden before his 100th birthday at the end of that month. One small soul like me won t make much difference, he declared in his first TV interview. He could not have been more wrong. By the time he closed his fundraising page at midnight on his 100th birthday, Captain Sir Tom had raised more than £32m from more than one-and-a-half-million global donors.

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