Free bus travel for under-16s ends August 31 as summer cost of living scheme closes

Under-16s are currently eligible for free travel across most bus services in England as part of a cost of living scheme

Putin is sweeping ‘Black August’ under the rug  CNN

Over the past few decades, “Black August,” or “the August curse,” has become a sort of journalistic shorthand in Russia for dramatic crises that seem to happen in the last weeks of summer. In some respects, Black August is Russia’s rough equivalent to the “silly season” in British journalism, the late-summer lull when

Ukraine strikes back against Russia as it continues to hit deep behind enemy lines