School children are having their health and happiness neglected because they focus purely on academic achievement, experts have warned. A report published in the BMJ warned focusing solely on achievement could push pupils towards "risky" behaviour.
The UK needs to "nail down rigorous academic standards" in its education system, according to a leading columnist.
Angela Epstein dismissed calls for more to be done to protect children's wellbeing as schools took a tougher academic focus.
She said: "We have poor standards of numeracy and literacy in this country. Children learn by being amongst their peers and by children being children."
19-year-old Angus Mainland took a selfie with his mystery traveler at the weekend. He fell in love. But forgot to ask for her number.
As the world remembers the Holocaust, an Auschwitz survivor says he remains "fearful" following the attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris.
Police are hunting four men who smashed their way into a jewellers in broad daylight and threatened staff with sledgehammers.