SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
GOING back into education at 35 years of age to do an access course was never going to be easy, especially when I have two small children to look after.
So, when I was accepted as a mature student at Durham University last year, I was ecstatic and very proud of my achievements.
Of course, I had heard that Durham was one of the more elitist universities and was often asked by friends if I — a mature student from a working-class background — was sure that I’d fit in.

MOLLIE BROWN reports on this year’s festival in honour of the ‘seven men of Jarrow’ deported to Australia for union activity 193 years ago


