it was the favourite who won the day. corach rambler proved a bargain for his owners a scottish syndicate who bought him forjust £17,000. the largest military parade in 70 years more than 6,000 members of britain s armed services will take part in next month s coronation. and the weather, a lot more cart around today compared to yesterday, patchy rain in the west but it will fill wall. all the details and outlook coming up after breakfast. just as she will feel warm. it s sunday, 16th april. our main story: motoring groups have welcomed the government s decision to cancel the construction of new smart motorways, but insisted the announcement does not go far enough. existing stretches of smart motorway in england will remain, but more emergency stopping places will be put in place. the aa has called for the hard shoulder to return on all roads. aru na iyengar reports. it is not quite the end of smart motorways. plans for m will be scrapped, including 11 that had already b
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increase in children being formally taken out of school. in rochdale, before the pandemic, an average of 91 children were being electively home educated. the past year has seen an additional 192. i think some families do not want local authority or agency involvement, and again, we have to kind of respect that, but in the same respect, we ve got to think about those families, where they do need that support. with an increase in the number of families going down the home education route, the government wants to introduce a register and says it will help with safeguarding and monitoring of children who are no longer in the school system. hannah has been home educating for two years and is sceptical about the register. if it becomes where . they are putting us on a register to keep tabs on us, to try and fit. us into those boxes, try l and get us to do a set curriculum i and tell us when we should be home educating, i think that s where problems are going to arise. we are just normal