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Leaflet will be distributed in pharmacies from next month as part of an initiative led by Labour's.  

PARENTS should avoid trying to convince their teenage children of the difference between right and wrong when talking to them about sex, a new government leaflet is to advise. Instead, any discussion of values should be kept “light” to encourage teenagers to form their own views, according to the brochure, which one critic has called “amoral”.

curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming....
The government's green adviser has warned that couples who have more than two children are being irresponsible

Almost 30 girls have been removed from Grey Coat Hospital School in Westminster after creating defamatory web pages about a teacher

Paul Simons and Will Pavia
Small flurries of Christmas cards are falling on doormats across the land today, bearing pictures that combine idyllic village scenes with the snow conditions of northern Greenland. The Met Office, which tends to be less romantic in its outlook, provided an entirely different forecast for Christmas Day in Britain yesterday: it will be cloudy, mostly dry and rather mild. Some will blame climate change for the discrepancy, and imagine snow-bound Christmas Days from distant childhood — yet the truly snowy Christmas of Christmas cards has occurred only seven times since 1900.

Student loans hit an all-time high as graduate recruitment is put on hold for this summer's crop of university leavers.
Students who graduated from university this summer have apparently never have had it so bad. Many borrowed tens of thousands of pounds in student loans on the assumption that they would walk into well-paid employment.

Up to 5,000 new private schools funded by the taxpayer are to be created under Tory plans to revolutionise teaching. David Cameron will this week reveal the scale of the party’s ambitions to transform the education system, detailing proposals to replace failing comprehensives and primaries with new “free” schools run by parents, charities and private firms.

Children are being held back at school because they are forced to memorise irregular spellings and learn how to use the apostrophe, a leading academic will claim this week. John Wells, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at University College London and president of the Spelling Society, will use the society’s centenary dinner this week to call for a “freeing up” of English spelling.

The schools minister has signalled a huge expansion of the government’s academies programme beyond the target of 400, with the aim of transferring the values of independent schools to the state sector.

Julie Burchill can't stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don't want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.

Sarika Watkins-Singh, 14, who took fight for religious bangle to the High Court has won a landmark discrimination claim