[Is this the first step to forced bussing? Can anyone see white parents choosing to send their kids to all black inner city schools? Or can we see black parents sending their children to white flight schools in the countryside?-ed]

Some schools would be able to select pupils by race in order to improve [...]

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The British Government will consider opting out of human rights legislation to crack down on terrorist suspects, the Home Secretary has said.
In the wake of three men going on the run after breaching control orders, John Reid said ministers may choose to suspend parts of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) so it [...]

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The UK’s equality watchdog was accused of hypocrisy tonight for paying its female staff less than the men.
The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) receives £9 million a year from the Government to push for employees to be treated the same regardless of their gender.
However, the average salary for women working at the EOC is £25,128 - [...]

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A barrister provoked outrage yesterday by claiming that the victim of an alleged gang rape was so fat she would have been ‘glad of the attention’.
Sheilagh Davies, defending one of three boys accused of raping two girls, said the 16-year-old girl had ’slimmed down a lot’ since the alleged attack.
She told Inner London [...]

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The UK’s identity cards scheme will cost more than £5.5bn to set up and run over the next 10 years, according to the government.
The cost of providing ePassports and ID cards to UK citizens for the period between April 2007 and April 2017 is estimated to be £5.55bn, according to the government’s Identity Cards Scheme [...]

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A manufacturing firm is saving itself £500,000 by making more than 20 staff redundant - and handing their work to prisoners.
A total of 22 staff will lose their jobs when Coinmechs Ltd closes its factory in Torquay, Devon, in June.
But they have now discovered their work is being contracted out to inmates at [...]

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A 99-year-old great grandma chased a burglar from her home for the second time in a year - days before her 100th birthday.
Feisty Kathleen Slater woke in the night to find the masked intruder inches away from her face, demanding her money.
The incident comes 11 months after a daylight attack in which two [...]

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A businessman from Norfolk has recovered a record £35,987.94 from NatWest after accusing it of charging him unlawful overdraft fees.
The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, had challenged the fees that the bank had levied for bouncing cheques from his company.
NatWest said it was settling the case only because its legal costs were becoming too [...]

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Almost six million children at 17,000 schools could have their fingerprints taken, intensifying fears of the growth of a “surveillance society” where personal information is gathered from cradle to grave.
As soaring numbers of schools require pupils to have biometric checks to register in the morning, buy canteen food or borrow a book, it emerged [...]

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PARK bosses have slapped a ban on children feeding bread to ducks. Generations of families have visited the lake at the heart of Salford’s Clowes Park to share stale loaves with the birds, but no more.
Officials say the ban is designed to save wildlife in the park lake and to deter rats. Yesterday Clowes Park [...]

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A ban on smoking in enclosed public places has come into force across Wales.
Pubs, restaurants, offices and public transport are all covered by the ban, which came into force at 0600 BST.
Those found smoking can face on-the-spot fines of £50, while those in charge of premises could also be fined for allowing smoking.
A similar ban [...]

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LONDON (EJP)—NatWest bank has frozen the accounts of a controversial Palestinian charity after a group of families of Israeli suicide bomb victims launched legal proceedings saying the British bank is supporting a group with links to terrorism.
According to the group who are suing NatWest and its parent group RBS in America, saying the London-based charity [...]

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You decide whether you want this taught to your children. The UK government will make this law on WEDNESDAY 21ST MARCH 2007, unless you make your voice heard. Be at Parliament Square at 12 noon that day for 1 hour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnjpgw91CXQ

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A new attempt is being made to allow Catholic adoption agencies to keep working under new equality laws, the BBC has learned.
The agencies have said they will close rather than act against their faith and handle requests from gay couples.
A cross-party working group has been set up to try to find a compromise [...]

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NHS bosses sparked a storm of criticism last night after abolishing Easter celebrations to avoid offending other religions.
Health chiefs who scrapped the traditional Christian break claimed recognising the festival would insult Muslims and foreign staff.
They say allowing employees at their “multicultural” hospitals to take time off at Easter could upset ethnic minorities and [...]

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Labour’s NHS deny war-hero medication!
One of our Somerset correspondents can reveal that a World War II bomber pilot, now in his 80’s, stands to lose his power of sight because his local NHS trust claims it doesn’t want to spend £4,000 on a drug that could save him from blindness. This despite the obvious [...]

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In an age when childhood innocence is under threat from every direction, the traditional game of tag would seem an unlikely offender.
But headmistress Susan Tuck doesn’t think so. She has banned it – along with all other games which involve physical contact – as “inappropriate behaviour”.
Youngsters aged five to 11 at Bracebridge Heath Primary [...]

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A new type of search engine using facial recognition technology could soon be able to pinpoint images of a person among the billions of photos posted online—even if their name does not appear.
A Swedish company named Polar Rose plans to launch its service for facial searches tied to the photo-sharing site Flickr within a couple [...]

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An Austrian court has ruled that UK historian David Irving - jailed for denying the Holocaust - should be released on probation.
The court had heard calls for both a reduction and increase in the three-year sentence.
Irving was convicted in February in a case that sparked international debate about the limits of freedom of speech.
In 1989 [...]

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CNN cut out the introduction where Mr Blitzer called Mr Duke KKK leader 11 times.
WOLF BLITZER: Joining us now live from Tehran is the former Louisiana state representative, David Duke.
Mr. Duke, thanks very much for coming in. What do you say to those who [...]

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