Daily roundup 9 March: Football, cancer drugs, and phone obsession

A total of 18 youth football clubs from across Scotland have been suspended from their leagues due to coaches not having full background checks. The BBC reports that hundreds of youth coaches and officials have been debarred for failing to complete regulatory checks. The Scottish Youth Football Association said a backlog of vetting had been completed.


Leading doctors are warning that British children with cancer could suffer if they are no longer able to join Europe-wide trials of innovative new medicines as a result of the Brexit deal. The Guardian reports that the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust say the best hope for some children with cancer is a clinical trial where a new drug is being tested. But because of the small number of children with the same cancers, the trials have to be run in many hospitals, often across Europe.


A primary school has put up signs to warn phone-obsessed parents to greet their children with a smile at the end of the day rather than staring at their screens. The Telegraph reports that St Joseph's Primary School in Middlesbrough has erected the signs at all three entrances to the school in an attempted crackdown.


Children's centres planned for closure in Hillingdon will be shut down at the end of March, it has been announced. Hillingdon Council revealed the centres in Hayes and Northwood will be closing their doors for good on 31 March because of a failure to reach a lease agreement with the landlords, according to getwestlondon.co.uk.


The Dallaglio Foundation, the charity founded in 2009 by the former England rugby captain, Lawrence Dallaglio, has been renamed as Dallaglio RugbyWorks. Through various annual events the charity has raised close to £10m in the last eight years in order to support the programme it runs for disengaged young people.