A poster designed by 18-year-old Maruf Khan from Oldham is to be used to front Rathbone’s national healthy eating campaign. Maruf’s poster was chosen by young people as the winning entry to the youth charity’s nationwide design competition. It will now be displayed in all 47 of Rathbone’s centres in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The number of parental fines in England for children's missing school has risen sharply since the government ban on term-time holidays was introduced, BBC research suggests. Almost 64,000 fines have been issued since the law changed in September 2013, a rise of about 70 per cent, according to local authority data. The ban has drawn opposition from parents, with hundreds of thousands signing petitions against the new rules and calling for the government to take action against holiday companies who raise their prices at peak times.
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