Children all over the country are returning to school today and risk being turned away at the gates if they or their teachers test positive for the virus as commuters returned for the first time since Christmas.

The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils across England, said crews have been badly impacted by the spread of the Omicron variant and called for workers be prioritised for Covid tests.

ASOS made adjusted pretax profit of 22 million pounds ($24.9 million) in the year to Aug.

31, 2022, in line with guidance that was lowered last month and down from the pandemic boosted 193.6 million pounds made in 2020-21.

Caroline Derbyshire, head of Saffron Walden County High School in Essex, said: 'Staff shortages will be a factor and there will be schools in particular parts of the country where rates have been extremely high.

LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Britain's ASOS, the one-time poster child for the shift to online fashion, vowed on Wednesday to overhaul its business model after the economic crunch combined with a string of operational problems to hammer its profits.

Although Smit accepts concerns that shares in many technology companies are overpriced, he believes his approach means the fund steers clear of those businesses where share prices have got ahead of themselves.

Smit's response was to offload the fund's holding in Tencent. 'The risk premium was too high,' he says. The proceeds were invested in Dutch company ASML, a provider of equipment to the semiconductor industry.

Police themselves were unsure if meeting was still on. Mobs opposed to some LGBTQ books took over the meeting as various factions jostled for power. Meeting of Dearborn Schools has descended into chaos and confusion as board members walked out. "Vote them out," crowd chants.

Several of the books parents have asked to be banned from the Dearborn, Michigan public school system. Each of them depicts rape, homosexuality and sex and local parents have taken issue with their children's access to the texts

Poland last week said it would send Ukraine four MiG-29 fighter jets in coming days, making it the first of Kyiv's allies to provide such aircraft and possibly creating a need to ramp up Poland's air defense equipment.

BERLIN, March 20 (Reuters) - Britain is ready to help Poland fill its air defense gaps caused by Warsaw sending some of its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine but Poland has not yet made such requests, British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey was quoted as saying on Monday.

Chelmsford City Council confirmed 23 members of staff were absent and cancelled three days' worth of food waste collections, while North Somerset Council said they had been unable to pick up 1,000 recycling bins on New Year's Eve as crews remain 'stretched due to staff sickness'.

'I think you'll find these are people with deeply held religious beliefs. We have to stand up for the First Amendment and people's religious beliefs and I think you're probably seeing a shift in the Republican Party,' he said.

Prior to the school board meeting, the district released a new policy that allows parents to block their school-aged children from checking certain items out of the library or prevent them entirely from using the district's library.

Councils across the UK are having to redistribute staff between essential services to keep everything running, and the public sector has been asked to prepare for a worst-case scenario of up to a quarter of staff off work.

Heads fear up to a quarter of their staff could be struck down in January and have been told to merge classes where necessary but teaching unions insist a return to online teaching at home will be inevitable for some this term despite Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi insisting face-to-face teaching will be the norm.

They can stagger starting days but all pupils should be back by Monday next week. Masks have been reintroduced in secondary school classrooms, while all secondaries have been asked to provide on-site testing for students ahead of their return.

Gloucester meanwhile has been hit with 'terrible problems' as bin collectors work in close-knit teams and quickly pass the virus onto one another, multiplying the number of staff off sick at one time, Liberal Democrat councillor Declan Wilson said.