Reading

2023: The Year in Reading

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The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases this year in order to select the Best Books of 2023. The magazine’s writers also came across many other new favorites—classics they resolved to finally tackle, memoirs and biographies they drew on in their writing, an art book that is a beautiful object in … Read more

Ruth Perry inquest: Ofsted inspection ‘likely’ contributed to headteacher’s death, says coroner

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AN Ofsted inspection “likely contributed” to the death of headteacher Ruth Perry, senior coroner Heidi Connor has told an inquest in Reading. Ruth Perry’s family say she took her own life after a report from the watchdog downgraded her Caversham Primary School in Reading from its highest rating to its lowest over safeguarding concerns. 1 … Read more