When a young person volunteers to visit a pensioner, both lives are enhanced, finds Jane Bond .

A man who left a New Year's Eve party with the missing university student Sally Geeson has returned to Cambridge to join the search.

Pupils starting the new term at one secondary school have become the first to face a new test - for drugs.

They were the star pupils who had the power to make you do extra litter-picking duties at school and now they are your bosses. Meet the captains of industry who were always destined to be leaders.

A boy worried about his GCSE exams hanged himself at his home less than a week before he was due to return to boarding school.

John Clare answers your queries on a career in music, university class gap and living with ME.

Manchester University has unveiled plans to increase its intake of overseas students, raising fears of a reduction in home students.

John Clare, our education editor has observed the effect that 10 education secretaries have had on the nation's schools. As Ruth Kelly takes over the position, he tells her, in an open letter, exactly how he feels she could do

Parents have a responsibility to teach their children to value education, love learning, behave well in school and respect their teachers, Ruth Kelly, the new Education Secretary, has said.

A fellowship of All Souls is a privilege granted only to the most dazzling students, says Tom Wainwright.

KEITH Raffan, the MSP who topped the Holyrood expenses table last year with a claim of more than £100,000, dramatically resigned yesterday.

BBC television presenter Kirsty Wark spent two nights at Jack McConnell's official residence at Bute House in Edinburgh, it was revealed last night, further inflaming the row surrounding their close friendship.

THERE are a number of ways to donate money to help those affected by the disaster.

THE Northern Bank is to replace its entire series of paper notes in an effort to thwart the gang which cleared its HQ of £22 million, it was announced yesterday.

THE Ministry of Defence is preparing to order an overhaul of machine guns on the army's main battle tank because of faults that led to the weapons firing at random.

THREE teenagers accused of murdering ten-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor in 2000 were remanded in custody yesterday.

PASSENGER watchdogs have called for urgent improvements to Virgin's new tilting trains after they were found to suffer the most faults. Virgin said the Pendolinos would be Britain's most reliable expresses after teething troubles were solved.

TRACKS legally downloaded from the internet have outsold singles for the first time

A 49-YEAR-OLD man was yesterday charged with the manslaughter of a 13-year-old boy shot during a night-time "lamping" expedition.