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"It will entrench lasting fear and loathing for sport amongst children and young people"

Michael Gove

Michael Gove slammed for punishing children with sport

Michael Gove urges teachers to "get tough" on pupils

Thousands of people sign a petition against Michael Gove's decision to punish children with exercise, after leading athletes, head teachers and even Conservative supporters spoke out against the plans.

No migrant surge

Airlines report no surge in migrants from Romania and Bulgaria

Bulgarians board a bus to Berlin, soon after the country joined the EU.

Fears that Bulgarians and Romanians would flood into the UK when work restrictions were lifted at the start of the year prove unfounded, after airlines and coach companies find no increase in traffic from the two countries.

Scottish Independence

War for oil: Cameron and Salmond trade blows over the North Sea

Offshore: Westminster needs to dispel arguments over North Sea oil to make its case against independence

David Cameron and Alex Salmond hold Cabinet meetings just seven miles from each other, as the prime minister tries to neutralise arguments about oil income

Scottish independence debate: North Sea oil is next battleground

North Sea oil: Which government will benefit?

Both the London and Edinburgh governments prepare to decamp to Aberdeen on Monday

Week in Review: Alex Salmond is born slippy

Salmond: Born Slippy

Salmond sings from the same old hymn sheet, while Clegg gets down-and-dirty.

In other news...

Miliband pessimistic over PMQs reform prospects

Ed Miliband in the "cauldron" of PMQs he wants to see reformed

Ed Miliband refuses to rule out attempting to reform prime minister's questions – but admitted doing so would be "incredibly hard"

An appeal for help: Funding cuts pushing GPs 'into crisis'

34 million will miss out on a GP appointment in 2014, Royal College predicts

General practices pushed into "crisis" which will see 34 million patients fail to get an appointment in 2014

'Another stitch-up': Snooping state makes half a million private data requests every year

Over 500,000 requests for private data made by the state every year, it's emerged

Britain's intelligence agencies could receive a rebuke from the snooping watchdog after it emerged there were over half a million requests for access to private data in 2012.

Comment and Analysis

WATCH: The five greatest Bill Hicks moments

Photo credit: American: The Bill Hicks Story

As the 20th anniversary of his death approaches we look back on Bill Hicks' five greatest moments

Comment: The EU-US treaty which enforces privatisation

Ian Dunt: 'Provisions for investor-state dispute settlements are embedded in a number of pre-existing bilateral investment treaties'

Without a squeak from parliament or the press, a treaty is being negotiated which would make it almost impossible to reverse privatisation

Charity calls for better crisis care in response to new suicide statistics

New figures show suicide rates are still worryingly high.

NHS IT scheme: “let’s hope Government has learnt from previous mistakes”

New NHS data-sharing scheme involving medical records is being delayed by six months. The IET comments here.

Proposed amendments to VAT online filing will not cure human rights breach

CIOT: “Failing to cure the breach will result in more litigation, incurring more costs for the Exchequer."

NASUWT calls on Secretary of State to recognise damage inflicted on teachers

NASUW remains deeply concerned about the adverse impact of the Coalition Government’s policies on teachers.

Latest ONS Figures Highlight Continuing Construction Recovery

According to figures from the Office for National Statistics published today, construction output in Q4 rose by 0.2% compared with Q3 and was 4.4% higher than a year earlier.

CIHT welcome targeted review of transport network resilience

CIHT welcome David Cameron's plan for targeted review of the resilience of the transport network to extreme weather events.

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