Following her success in Beijing, Olympic Bronze Medallist Cassie Patten is facing a new challenge. Patten is going to attempt one of the world’s toughest endurance feats; swimming the English Channel.It’s a challenge that has appealed to many adventurous swimmers

Alistair Gray, the new chairman of British Swimming, is due to start his position with the sport’s National Governing Body on 22 November 2008.Gray, a leading strategy consultant, with vast experience of the sporting sector, has led major strategic reviews

This edition of the Club Newsletter features: Re-accreditations, Accreditations and Revalidations - Torquay Leander and Plymouth RN/RM accredit for the 1st time at Teaching and Skill Development. Cinderford and District SC and Taunton Deane re-accredit for another 4 years.Swim 21

The maintenance work of salting and ploughing Aberdeen's roads and pavements has begun with the onslaught of winter. 2008/11/18 00:00:00

The Lord Provost of Aberdeen Peter Stephen will host a civic reception to celebrate the highly successful partnerships between city schools and industry, which is a central theme of the Scottish Government's 'Determined to Succeed' Initiative, at 7pm on Tuesday,

An eclectic selection of CDs, DVDs, language courses and prints will go on sale at 10am on Saturday, 22 November, at Aberdeen's Central Library, Rosemount Viaduct. 2008/11/18 00:00:00

A series of breaches of planning laws regulations have been identified and tackled by Aberdeen City Council's planning officers. 2008/11/18 00:00:00

Councillors have agreed proposals to offer the consortium up to GBP 5m at an Urgent Business Committee on Tuesday November 18. 2008/11/18 00:00:00

Crossness Pumping Station is to have £1.5million pumped into its restoration courtesy of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The grade 1 listed building, created by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, saved London from the historic 'Great Stink' in 1858.

Tamsin Kelly on seeing beyond the gloss of the new school prospectuses

Above) Iron Age hill fort near Fourstones, Northumberland. Courtesy English Heritage. Prehistoric burial mounds, medieval sheep farms and 19th century lead mines are among the 2,700 previously unrecorded historic features revealed by an unprecedented survey of Hadrian's Wall. Based on

James Vaughan introduces the first in an occasional series on adult education. This week: maths

The dramatic two-page document, ordering the execution of Mary Queen Of Scots in 1587, will be on display at Aberdeen's Blairs Museum following an agreement engineered by Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. Initially purchased privately in 1996, it had been

Above) The new edition of Horsham's history covers the history of the town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Labour's flagship diplomas require "significant adjustments" to succeed according to a college leader.

Marking the 90th anniversary of the end of World War One, a new display at the Shetland Museum and Archives highlights the collective sense of loss felt by the island following the First World War.

A teacher had an affair with a 14yearold pupil that was exposed through messages they exchanged on a website a court heard.

Poor performing schools face "lightning" inspections to clamp down on educational failure.

Schoolchildren have always been inventive when it comes to excuses for not handing in their homework - and now they are increasingly blaming technology a new survey has revealed.

In the old days pupils' homework was late because it was eaten by the dog or accidentally stuck in the washing machine but that was before the advent of the internet.