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Britain's strictest school has received its first ever GCSE results after opening five years ago - and they are far above the national average. Is discipline the answer to our education problem?

There is plenty of constitutional outcry on the front pages of the British papers today, which all lead with Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament ahead of the looming Brexit deadline. Front pages from abroad show the international press is transfixed too.

There is “Outrage as Johnson suspends parliament” according to the Guading newspaper. The paper leads with John Bercow’s comments that the decision was a “constitutional outrage” and the paper’s leader says: “Johnson’s move represents a grotesque abuse of the country’s highest office”. Is the the end of democracy in Britain, or something entirely different?

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Just days after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle came under fire over their private jet journey, Prince William and Kate Middleton were spotted taking a commercial flight to Scotland.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge flew from Norwich to Aberdeen on a FlyBe partner aircraft Thursday morning. According to DailyMail.com, the royal couple's kids—Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis—and their nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, were also in tow. William was spotted walking alongside his first two children while carrying the family's bags, and Kate followed closely behind with their baby boy.

"We were delighted to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their family on board one of our flights again, this time when they flew from Norwich to Aberdeen with our franchise partner Eastern Airways," a FlyBe representative told E! News.

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Facial recognition technology, you might think, belongs in a dystopian nightmare. Imagine cameras tracking your every move, knowing exactly who you are, everything you’ve done, what you like and who you meet. But it’s fiction no longer. Married with artificial intelligence (AI), the swarm of cameras perched on buildings and lamp posts the world over can now do all that and much, much more. And it won’t be long before the technology is everywhere.

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In a power grab by the state, there are proposals in England that will replace Marriage Registers and Marriage Certificates (issued at the time of the wedding) with a Marriage Document which will be prepared by the officiating priest before the wedding. At the ceremony, the Marriage Document will be signed by the couple, their witnesses and the officiating priest (in much the same way as the Registers are currently).

The proportion of students achieving the top grades at A-level has fallen to its lowest level for more than a decade, this year's results show. What is ther reason? Is the UK failing at education?

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Seagulls and what to do about them. Madeleine Goumas, a postgraduate researcher at Exeter University, ventured to Falmouth, St Ives, Newquay and other popular seaside spots armed with a sealed bag of chips and a stopwatch. When she arrived, she placed the chips about an arm’s length away and timed when the seagulls swooped. She observed their behaviour and saw an answer at last on how to stop seagull attack. Listen and be convinced. Or not.

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The government has announced an inquiry into the power cut on Friday that left people stuck in trains for up to nine hours and almost a million people in England and Wales without electricity. Is this a sign of Britain losing its power literally and metaphorically? Mark and Pete investigate.

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What name you are given can affect you, yes really and more than you think. What other factors outside of our control set the course for our lives without our knowing?

Owners of a porcelain bowl that sat on their shelf for years were 'shocked and delighted' to find it was a rare 18th century Chinese antique worth more than £200,000.

While clearing out to downsize their home the owners had an auctioneer in Bath, Somerset, look at the piece, uncovering it's regal heritage. Dating from between 1722 to 1735 the rare bowl was found to be from the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yongzheng. Is it even remotely possible that its worth spending hard cash on such an object?

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