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Teachers face sack under new classroom licence plan
Posted on June 30, 2009
Teachers will need a "licence to teach" and must renew it every five years or face being banned from the classroom, Ed Balls announced today in a bid to reform schools before the general election.
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    Alan Johnson: ID cards 'will never be compulsory' for Britons
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    Alan Johnson signalled a major retreat by the Government on identity cards when he ruled out ever making them compulsory for British citizens. The Home Secretary also abandoned plans for a pilot project at two airports which would have required some staff and pilots to carry the cards
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    The fight for Iran’s future is far from over
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    The Islamic Republic is dead. But will it be replaced by a Taleban-style emirate or democracy?
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    Think tank maps out future UK defence
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    A report by defence experts for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called for radical changes in British security and defence policy.
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    Government faces court battle over £400m contract for hi-tech passports
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    A losing bidder is threatening action over the fact that one of Gordon Brown's senior mandarins is a director of the firm which won the contract. Gill Rider, a leading member of the Cabinet Office, not only directs the hiring of senior civil servants, but is also director of De La Rue printers, which last week secured the job of producing biometric passports.
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    Dementia research must treble to prevent 'unmitigated disaster', claim scientists
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    The next generation faces an "unmitigated disaster" unless the government triples spending on dementia to bring it on a par with cancer research, claim scientists.
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    'Deceit over cuts will lead to riots', says David Cameron
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    Britain faces “riots on the streets” if Gordon Brown’s “dishonesty” over public spending enables him to win the next election, David Cameron said.
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    Did leak from a laboratory cause swine flu pandemic?
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    The swine flu pandemic might not have happened had it not been for the accidental release of the same strain of influenza virus from a research laboratory in the late 1970s, according to a new study.
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    Warning: Britain faces new recession
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    The world's central bankers have warned that the British economy faces relapsing into another recession – the much-feared "double dip" downturn.
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    Lord Mandelson is playing fantasy politics with no credibility
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    Labour's refusal to conduct a spending review is a sign of its desperation.
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    Gordon Brown plays the ageing rocker, but can he turn back time?
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    The Prime Minister will live or die by the contents of yesterday's masterplan, suggests Mary Riddell.
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    Monday at Wimbledon
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    Murray fights into the night to reach last eight
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    Schools accused of wasting £1bn every year
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    Billions of pounds pumped into schools by Labour have remained unspent or been wasted on expensive contracts, according to the spending watchdog which accuses ministers of failing to hold headteachers to account for their expenditure
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    Warning: Britain faces new recession
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    The world's central bankers have warned that the British economy faces relapsing into another recession – the much-feared "double dip" downturn.
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    Gordon Brown's pre-election vision undermined by spending plans row
    Posted on June 30, 2009
    PM's manifesto, Building Britain's Future, overshadowed by charges that Labour is hiding funding cuts
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