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Shadowing a police officer in mid Wales - third of 3 videos




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Shadowing a police officer in mid Wales (1/3)
Two days as a teaching assistant - first of 4 videos
Two days as a teaching assistant - first of 4 videos
   

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My stay in Balsall Heath - first of 8 videos
Life with a British Asian family in Birmingham
Two days as a teaching assistant - first of 4 videos
Working as a teaching assistant in Hull
Shadowing a police officer in mid Wales - first of 3 videos
Shadowing a police officer in mid Wales


NHS must be run by the professionals, not the politicians Ministers should stop meddling in the NHS and allow it to be run as an independent body, a new report says. They should have the courage to stand back if the health service is to be efficiently run without constant interference, according to Brian Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Development at the University of Sheffield.
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Fencing prices hit £80 a panel as timber shortage prompts panic-buying on black market A shortage of timber has created a booming black market for fencing, where panels change hands for four times their usual price. Desperate customers are willing to buy an illicit fencing panel for as much as £80 after many DIY stores sold out.

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Schools in 'special measures' category of failure rise by 5% The number of schools judged to be failing increased by 5 per cent during the first three months of the year, figures from the education watchdog showed yesterday. The rise in the number of schools in "special measures", Ofsted's lowest category, comes on top of a dramatic increase last autumn and means that since the end of last August the number of failing schools has risen by 23 per cent to 256.

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How apes swinging through the trees taught us how to walk Walking upright on two legs - a quintessentially human trait - started when our ape ancestors still lived in trees rather than evolving from knuckle-walking on the ground, scientists said yesterday. A study of how wild orang-utans living in the forests of Sumatra "walk" around the treetops has led researchers to conclude that the conventional view of how human ancestors started to walk on two legs is probably wrong.

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29/05/2007 Photos from mid Wales
Here are some photos from my visit to mid Wales, where I was shadowing a police officer. ...

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24/05/2007 Shadowing a police officer in mid Wales
When I saw Jan Berry, Chairman of the Police Federation, in Blackpool last week, she said she was i...

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18/05/2007 My visit to Blackpool & Gordon Brown's non-election campaign
It’s been pretty hectic since my last post from Hull – after finishing there I had to get to Bla...

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David in the news


The row about grammar schools was not some kind of "Clause 4 moment' People have got to understand that we're not trying to copy New Labour - we're trying to learn from their mistakes.

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Fixation with grammar schools is a dead end We are serious about standards; serious about discipline; serious about school reform. And nothing will distract me from those vital priorities.

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The World at One David was interviewed on Radio 4 today, topics included academies and grammar schools - requires RealPlayer.

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