Argyll and Bute council has caved into massive online pressure after banning a nine-year-old blogger from photographing her school meals.
Scientists of the future are being discouraged by over-zealous health and safety concerns at school, a committee of MPs has said.
Prime minister David Cameron has delivered a speech on education in Norwich, in which he suggests that truants could cost parents their benefits.
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