You may think that dolls houses and their contents are child’s play, but you would be mistaken. For the serious miniaturist everything in their Lilliputian homes and shops is made to scale and with painstaking accuracy.

A boy with autism was left without specialist support to help him communicate for more than a year by a Yorkshire council.

A mother-of-three girls says she is ‘flitting between anger and tears’ after finding out her seven-year-old daughter’s school may have to close.