Margaret Gray was not a woman who wasted time, as witnessed by her alarming speed up to and in between traffic lights Margaret Gray, who has died aged 97, was head of the Godolphin and Latymer school in Hammersmith, west London, from 1963 to 1973. Her ability to listen to and empathise with... 

Free milk in school was to be stopped as part of the planned public sector cuts by the government Coalition plans to remove free school milk were summarily dropped by David Cameron this morning amid fears of that it would remind voters of the iconic “Thatcher milk snatcher” episode... 

Chelsea’s Ashley Cole is being pursued by his former manager Jose Mourinho. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images Carlo Ancelotti watched Ashley Cole play his first minutes of the pre-season for Chelsea and then told José Mourinho, the Real Madrid manager, that the left-back was not... 

Kermode in 2000, the year he published Shakespeare’s Language, which is still a bestselling text. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian When Frank Kermode’s elegant, melancholy, often very funny autobiography, Not Entitled, was published in 1995, many reviewers commented on the...