Gemma Tumelty is, by her own admission, exhausted. Her fatigue is hardly surprising: It is the end of another long day of debating and voting at the National Union of Students' (NUS) annual conference in Blackpool, which will be Tumelty's
South African police must shoot to kill and ignore regulations in the battle against one of the worst rates of violent crime in the world, a government minister said.
No wonder Simon Ambrose was hired by Alan Sugar in The Apprentice, now into its fourth series on BBC1. He has been in business - or, at least, on business premises - since he was three, the age when his
The Serious Fraud Office's decision to drop its investigation into alleged bribery and corruption involving arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia was overturned by the High Court today.
Seven years ago this week, Labour unveiled its vision for further education. By putting the Learning and Skills Council in charge of colleges, sixth forms and private training firms, ministers promised higher post-16 standards - regardless of where young people
The Conservative blueprint for dealing with disruptive pupils, called Giving Power Back To the Teachers, contains a series of populist measures designed to give the impression of a crackdown on poor classroom behaviour. It paints a bleak picture of what
GMTV presenter Kate Garraway accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages today over allegations that she betrayed her husband by having an affair with Strictly Come Dancing partner Anton Du Beke.
John Denham's decision to force every university to adopt a policy for admissions, and to make that public, is a sensible attempt to try to reassure people that their children are not losing out by reason of their background. Although
The National Union of Teachers is threatening to strike unless the Government introduces a legal maximum class size of 20. Meanwhile, schools minister Jim Knight was booed at another teaching union conference when he suggested that larger classes might sometimes
Steve Sinnott, the general secretary of the NUT who died last weekend at 56, was widely praised for his advocacy of comprehensive education in Britain. Less well known were his efforts overseas. He worked tirelessly to stop the Ethiopian government
Manufacturers should voluntarily remove six artificial food colourings from their products, the board of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) recommended today.
The corruption probe which led to the arrest of two Birmingham City Football Club executives is focusing on payments to a football agent and two players, the club said today.
We may be the subject of European culinary ridicule, but nobody - not even Charles de Gaulle - could accuse the British of not being good at making cheese. With British Cheese Board putting the number of varieties in the
Laws on flexible working for parents weren't designed around the welfare of horses, but Debbie Esslemont, a keen rider whose children are now adults, was keen to seize the chance of a better work-life balance two years ago. She had
Beirut - Members of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon on Thursday began erecting a barbed-wire fence along the Lebanon-Israel border to prevent violations of the 'Blue Line' that could jeopardize the region's fragile ceasefire.
Damascus - The United States is using the ongoing investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as a means to pressure Damascus politically, a foreign ministry official said Thursday.
Beirut / Washington - The top two U.S. officials in Iraq accused Iran, Syria and Lebanon's Hezbollah on Tuesday of fueling recent fighting in Baghdad, saying Tehran and Damascus were pursuing a "Lebanization strategy" in Iraq.
