of the UK’s most influential black people. The Powerlist Black Excellence Awards was launched in

The BBC is formally requesting that its Russian customers do not play out the remainder of hit programmes including Dancing With The Stars and The Green Planet, the PA news agency understands. BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the broadcaster, announced on Tuesday that it was halting all content licensing with its Russian customers over the invasion of Ukraine.A statement said: “ In common with other media organisations, we have been monitoring events closely. Sir David Attenborough, right, fil

The proportion of families getting their top choice of secondary school place has seen a boost this year, a survey suggests. Early figures indicate that in nearly two thirds of council areas – 64% – there has been a rise in the proportion of Year Six pupils heading to their preferred secondary school in September.On what is commonly known as National Offer Day, hundreds of thousands of families across England found out on Tuesday which secondary school they will be joining next academic year. Fi