Trainee cemetery workers mistakenly dig practice plot at beauty spot 

That’s a grave insult! Trainee cemetery workers mistakenly dig practice plot at beauty spot Contractors dug a hole in the middle of a field of ‘irreplaceable ecological value’  Easthill Field, in Frome, Somerset is home to wildlife and endangered dormice Activists fighting to protect the field from developers were ‘intensely upset’   By Gregory Kirby For … Read more

Trainee lawyer, 25, praises ‘gentlemen’ Chris Eubank and David Haye for coming to her rescue

Trainee lawyer, 25, praises ‘gentlemen’ Chris Eubank and David Haye for coming to her rescue when she was hit by a Mercedes as BOTH boxing champions happened to be passing by Armandine Pohecoula, 25, was struck by the car on Albert Embankment, London Eubank, 54, and Haye, 39, happened to both be in the area … Read more

Trainee teachers ‘see Black children as more angry’ than white youngsters, study claims

Trainee teachers are more likely to see Black children as being ‘more angry’ than white youngsters, regardless of their actual emotional state, a study has concluded.  US researchers showed prospective teachers clips of young child actors performing different emotions — and asked them to identify the expressions that they saw. The participants were found to … Read more

Trainee KPMG accountant sacked after dress code row with boss

A trainee accountant at one of the world’s biggest firms was sacked after accusing her boss of ‘mansplaining’ when he asked her to wear smarter clothes to work. Zhihui Lu joined KPMG as an audit assistant in 2015 after graduating from Durham with a degree in accounting and finance – but within two years bosses were raising … Read more

Black trainee vicar denied position by Church of England because area population ‘monochrome white’

A Black trainee vicar has been denied a position by the Church of England because the demographic of the parishioners in the area he had applied to work was ‘monochrome white working class’ and it might make him feel ‘uncomfortable’. Augustine Tanner-Ihm has hit out at the ‘institutional racism’ in the church after the the … Read more

NHS trainee nurses to work on wards to help tackle coronavirus

Thousands of trainee nurses in their final year will be ‘invited’ to start their careers before they qualify so they can help to tackle coronavirus NHS England chief executive said some of the 18,000 students in final year of training would be ‘invited’ into clinical practice They are in their last 12 months of three-year … Read more

‘Is my brain out?’: Trainee Army medic, 20, jokes with doctors as he has brain surgery WIDE AWAKE

A team of neurosurgeons is on the hunt for a ping-pong-ball-sized tumour, lodged in the left side of Cameron Ray’s brain. Not that you’d know it. Chuckling, the 20-year-old patient gives a thumbs-up to the surgical assistant and cheekily asks the assembled doctors and nurses: ‘Is my brain out?’ It sounds astonishing but Cameron is … Read more