The Latest Breaking News from England

In today’s newsletter: Poor teacher recruitment and retainment puts children on the back foot before they barely step in the classroom

Institute of Physics says ‘critical’ shortage means 700,000 pupils are deprived of a subject specialist

In the first week of September, the six-stage Tour of Britain runs from east to west across England and Wales

The England centre-back has one year remaining on his contract at Selhurst Park and is now set to join the Premier League champions and compete with Ibrahima Konate for a starting spot

King and Conqueror season 2 could take us back to 11th century England

British fastest-declining mammal has been reintroduced into the River Wey in a two-year programme.

Between 1945 and 1974, Scotland lost a proportionally higher number of country houses than England — 175 of these stately formerly aristocratic homes (think Downton Abbey) were demolished, according to Country Life magazine in August 1979.

Follow all the action from Headingley

The reign of Æthelstan (924 to 939) has excited a significant amount of study in recent years. In 2004 there was The Age of Athelstan, by Paul Hill. In 2011, Sarah Foot published Æthelstan: The First King of England, and in 2018, Tom Holland released Athelstan: The Making of England.…