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Why the northeast could benefit from the ‘Waitrose Effect’

27 November 2021

9:00 AM

27 November 2021

9:00 AM

A Church of England primary school in Richmond, London, has junked Sir Winston Churchill and J.K. Rowling as names for two of its houses and replaced them with the names of the footballer Marcus Rashford and the lady who helped out in the Crimean war, Mary Seacole. This was done, the school said, in order to be ‘more diverse’.

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