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Fathers 4 Justice stage a demonstration
Fathers give up campaign
The radical campaign group, Fathers 4 Justice, created for men involved in child custody battles, has been disbanded after allegations that extremist elements ploted to kidnap Tony Blair's five-year-old son Leo.
Leader: Fathers break up
Crusaders zapped by extremists
Plot thickens over 'world exclusive'


Ruth Kelly
Kelly faces critical day
Ruth Kelly, the Education Secretary, will try to salvage her career by outlining to MPs new safeguards on vetting and barring convicted or cautioned sex offenders in schools.
Boris Johnson: The real scandal
Kelly omits maths and English data
Truancy rises despite investment


School league tables
Making sense of it
League tables have few friends among the education establishment but the Government has resisted pressure to scrap them, saying parents have a right to know how their local schools perform.
education.telegraph

League tables

Wichai SomKhaoyai and Bualoi Posit
Katherine's killers sentenced to death
Seventeen days after the backpacker Katherine Horton was attacked on a beach in Thailand, her killers have been sentenced to death.
'I was raped by a polite local'


Three held over lawyer's murder
Three men have been arrested by police investigating the murder of the lawyer Tom ap Rhys Pryce.


Baby pool
Pools may increase asthma danger
Taking a baby to swimming classes before the age of two may double the risk of a child developing asthma and chronic lung problems, a European expert on toxic substances has claimed.
The risk factor
health.telegraph


Prisoner diets way to freedom
A prisoner has escaped by squeezing out of a narrow gap he had chiselled in his cell wall after deliberately losing more than 3st.


 INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Hillary Clinton
Hillary in 'slave' jibe
Hillary Clinton has made an eye-catching pitch to re-establish her populist credentials with an assault on her Republican opponents in which she compared her foes in Congress with slaveowners.
Alec Russell's Washington DC blog


Poster of President Bashar al-Assad
Assad releases rebels
President Bashar al-Assad has freed five of Syria's most prominent dissidents, raising hopes of an imminent large release of political prisoners.
Assad disappoints West
Syria factfile


Poster for Paradise Now
Suicide bombers film splits Israelis
An award-winning film sympathetic to Palestinian suicide bombers has divided opinion in Israel where Jewish film-goers were largely supportive but a newspaper accused it of being an apologia for terrorism.
Middle East factfile
film.telegraph


Drought drives out elephants
The worst drought for 22 years in Kenya's lowlands is forcing wild animals out of game parks and on to farmland, where they risk being shot to protect scant crops.
Forest clearance blamed for damage


Man swimming in icy water
Good for the soul
A Siberian weather front brought temperatures of -22F (-33 C) to Moscow but Orthodox believers observed Epiphany at frozen rivers and lakes all the same.


Mouthwash saved face transplant
A steamy Italian saga
Pop star Hallyday cleared of 2001 rape
A mate for head of state
Duke of Cleveland's guilty secret
Holly Hunter has twins at 47

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 UK NEWS

Someone smoking
Soft policy cannabis stays
Cannabis is to remain a Class C drug but there is to be a greater focus on the mental health dangers it poses, Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, is expected to announce.
health.telegraph


Cameron against ID cards
David Cameron has launched an all-out attack on the Government's plans for a national identity card scheme, telling Tony Blair it would become a "monument to the failure of big government".
Leader: Policies postponed
Commons sketch
Tories now 'party for social justice'


David Cochrane
Arson attack 'part of bullying war'
An arson attack that left a couple dead and their 16-year-old daughter fighting for her life was the culmination of a long-running bullying campaign, the girl's family has claimed.


Bailiffs to pursue absent parents
Absent parents who refuse to pay maintenance for their children will be pursued by private debt collectors under radical plans to reform the Child Support Agency.


Nick Griffin
BNP leader predicted London bombs
The leader of the British National Party predicted attacks by Islamic terrorists living in England more than 12 months before the bombings in London last year, a jury has heard.


'Tosh' worth £100,000
James Joyce's Ulysses has baffled readers for a century with its dense prose and Virginia Woolf declared that she had never read such "tosh". But in the world of 20th century rare books, nothing is rarer than an original Ulysses.
'I threw away Potter first edition'
Valuable C20th fiction first editions
arts.telegraph/books


Children playing
Nursery fees can be £15k
Private nursery costs in some parts of Britain are now so high that they match or even exceed fees for private schools.
Nursery installs fingerprint ID system


Grade II* to be axed
The Government is to abolish the Grade II* listing for historic English buildings in a move designed to make the listing system easier for the public to understand.
property.telegraph
How the system works


A dog with a docked tail
Fury over move to ban docking of dogs' tails
Countryside groups and dog breeders were in uproar after the Government announced in a U-turn that it would now support a full ban on docking dogs tails.
Dogs of the docked breed variety


Haircut ruined nurse's life
A dental nurse whose ponytail became the subject of High Court deliberation after it was cut off by her boyfriend has said that he destroyed her "pride and joy".


Germany 2006 World Cup logo
£14,000 World Cup packages to sell out
Top-price corporate packages for this summer's World Cup are expected to sell out over the next few days, as football fans protest about the number of tickets given to companies.


Patients' phone costs reviewed
Relatives and friends are being forced to pay exorbitant prices if they want to telephone patients in hospital, an inquiry by the telecoms regulator has found.


A scan of a brain
Men hungrier for revenge
Men appear to get greater satisfaction than women from witnessing painful retribution, according to a new brain scanner study.


New shops sell your junk for you
A chain of shops that will sell customers' unwanted items on eBay could revolutionise Britain's market for second-hand products.


Scales of Justice
Time for a display of conviction politics
Ministers must ensure that offenders offered a 'prosecutor's penalty' to cut court appearances do not also receive a record , writes our legal editor Joshua Rozenberg.
Law reports
Brief encounters


'Big Brother' Blair attacked on tapping
Diplomat's air rage blamed on trauma
Gay weddings for priests 'unbiblical'
Student blackmailed over $1m website
'Wrong-way' woman faces jail
U-turn on cancer drug