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Plans to give parents and pupils a list of legal rights at school came under angry attack last night. Head teachers warned that they would create a 'whingers' charter' and open the floodgates to legal action.

Oxford and Cambridge should 'explicitly discriminate' against middle-class applicants with top grades to ensure a diverse student intake, researchers claim today.

Despite trying to shed 465 jobs in an effort to save cash, Derby City Council still managed to find £28,000 so 85 headteachers could have a get-together at a luxurious health spa.

They were the making of your grandmother - and they didn't do those young girls in Little House on the Prairie any harm either.

The research adds to growing evidence that hormone-disrupting chemicals in thousands of household-products are interfering with the development of children.

Every new father in the country will be given a pocket guide to being a good parent and how to get the maximum State benefits under a taxpayer-supported scheme.

Elizabeth Hitch was so incensed by comments on the social networking site that she threatened dozens of other students at Beaumont School, St Albans, with disciplinary action.