Good morning! And commiserations to any young readers and teachers who have had to set their alarms today for the first time in six weeks. I feel your pain, and hope you at least have a nice new pencil case to soften the blow.
Most pupils in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already back in class, but many English schools are reopening their doors this week. Unless, of course, they are one of the more than 150 suddenly told by the government on Thursday that they would have to find alternative accommodation due to the presence of a particularly crumbly kind of concrete.