Struggling seaside towns are to receive additional funding to address issues including deprivation, the Independent reports. The Treasury announced that the Coastal Communities Fund will be worth £29m from 2014, an increase of five per cent from last year.
Young people who post pictures of themselves on social media sites such as Facebook risk damaging their self-confidence, a clinical psychologist has warned. Doctor Jessamy Hibberd told the Telegraph the practice of publishing 'selfie' photographs in order to gain online 'likes' or comments could also lead to cyberbullying.
There has been a fall in the number of teenagers not in education, employment or training (Neet) in England. The BBC reports that figures for the second quarter of this year show the proportion of 16- to 18-year-olds who were Neet was 9.1 per cent, down 1.4 percentage points on the same quarter in 2012.
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