BBC investigation heard accounts from former pupils of physical violence, rape and sexual assault

Cameras worn by cyclists to highlight the daily dangers they face from motorists on Britain's roads are fuelling tensions between car and bike users, a new study argues. Social media sites such as YouTube and Twitter contain hundreds of videos taken by the lightweight devices which are attached to riders' helmets. They can show shocking examples of cyclists being cut up, knocked off and even physically attacked by irate drivers.

Women's earnings play a huge role in the survival of the nation's families

An insightful outsider's view of English public school? Well, almost

Adrift bearing memories of a faraway war

The moderate cleric becomes president of Iran after receiving endorsement from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

More rumours about a movie sequel?

'It's the restaurant equivalent of BBC Four - upmarket but quirky'

The rise of mobile phone and digital technology means traditional school lessons in the English language are effectively pointless, a leading academic has claimed.

All Hail West Texas may be the quintessential Mountain Goats album. An expanded reissue of a 2002 release, it was the last in their classic lo-fi style, featuring just head Goat John Darnielle making one-take recordings onto a broken boombox. The chief virtue is the immediacy that courses through tracks like “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” and “Fall of the Star High School Running Back”. Darnielle's tableaux of Texas characters like the piratical “Jenny” and the drifter of “Distant Stations” are sketched with skill.

He famously reduced the conductor Josef Krips to tears during rehearsals with the LSO

The number of students taking modern languages at university fell by 12 per cent for 2012/13

President-elect also expressed doubts about the possibility of an Israeli-Palestinian peace

In the long summer days Eleanor Doughty has discovered a new way to pass the time. Just don't tell the neighbours