• NI Water appreciates upset over ‘shocking’ burst pipe flooding incident

    The company carried out emergency repairs on the burst watermain at Ballyarnett Road on Thursday with the team working into the evening to ensure the repair was successful. An NI Water spokesperson said: “A burst main on such a scale is fortunately a rare occurrence, but when it happens it can be shocking to witness. "The sheer volume of water from a pipe this size means as much as 110 litres of water per second could potentially have been flowing toward the properties at speed, and...

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    N.J. school district closed for day, town hall closed for morning following bomb threat

    Earlier this week, a teacher was removed from a middle school because a

  • Profits over pipes: who should own our water?

    Thames Water owes hundreds of millions of pounds in debt, and the UK government is concerned about its potential collapse. Helena Horton reportsThames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, which services 16 million people across the south of England, is facing criticism over its management.Kemble, the parent company of Thames Water, told its creditors last week that it had defaulted on its debt. Amid fears that the company will collapse, the government is considering options for next steps....

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    Social media threat closes Kamehameha Schools

    HONOLULU (KHON2) -- The Kamehameha Schools is taking action after a threat to the school was circulating on social media. "With an abundance of caution will be canceling school today, Monday, April 15 for all haumāna, staff and faculty at Kalihi-Palama and Kapalama Preschools," the school said in a letter to the KS community. []

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    St. Landry Parish schools closed on Thursday

    Schools around St. Landry Parish are closed on Thursday.

  • As Japan shrinks, schools are closing one by one

    numberLast day of school at Seika Tsuno Elementary School Noos News•Yesterday, at 6:30 p.m Anoma van der Veere Japan correspondent Anoma van der Veere Japan correspondent Kazuyo Oono Elementary School in Japan’s Kochi Prefecture has closed after 150 years. “There used to be six primary schools here, but today there are only two left,” she […]

  • Town of Roxbury Sues Over Budget Vote That Could Close Its School

    The Town of Roxbury is suing Montpelier Roxbury Public Schools in an attempt to prevent a budget revote on April 30 that could close the Roxbury Village School as a cost-saving measure. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in Washington County Superior Court, alleges that the school district failed to hold a state-mandated informational budget meeting 10 days prior to the first budget vote on Town Meeting Day. Instead, the suit alleges, the informational meeting was held online the morning of...

  • Bomb threat closes NJ school district Thursday

    An unspecified bomb threat forced the closure of Marlboro Township Schools in New Jersey Thursday as authorities worked to identify the source and veracity of the threat. The superintendent for Marlboro Township Schools, which enrolls nearly 5,000 students in pre-K-8th grade, initially called for a two-hour delayed opening for schools in the district, citing the emailed bomb threat. “This decision

  • Kamehameha Schools Kapalama closed due to graffiti threat

    Classes at the Kamehameha Schools Kapalama were canceled today in response to a threat of violence shared on social media, officials said.

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    Jennings High School closed Monday due to threat

    Jennings High School will not have school today due to “an external threat on campus this morning,” authorities said.

  • Schools may be forced to close as pupil numbers drop

    Councils will have to consider cost-cutting, merging with other schools and shutting, think tank says

  • North York high school closed due to bomb threat

    A high school in Toronto's Mount Pleasant East neighbourhood is closed Wednesday, as police investigate the validity of a bomb threat.In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Toronto police say Northern Secondary School, a Toronto District School Board school near Mount Pleasant Road and Eglinton Avenue E., received a bomb threat by email.Police attended the school to investigate just after 7 a.m. Wednesday. They say no students were inside at the time.The school remains in lockdown, and...