Sunday, 5 December 2010

Boris kicks FIFA chiefs out of The Dorchester:

London Mayor takes revenge for THAT vote

by scuppering £1,000-a-night Olympic junket

Revenge: Boris Johnson, pictured in Zurich with England manager Claudio Capello, has pulled the plug on a FIFA Olympic visit in revenge for the loss of the World Cup vote

FIFA president Mr Blatter and his team had been invited

to stay in exclusive suites at the five-star hotel for more than

a week during the Olympics.





Mandelson's speeches for multi-billion fund run by

Andrew's Kazakh friend

Influential: Lord Mandelson, pictured with fund chief Kairat Kelimbetov in London, is at the centre of fresh controversy over his relationship with the super-rich

The former Business Secretary recently spoke at two events

organised by Samruk-Kazyna, the country’s sovereign wealth

fund. One was in the Kazakhstan capital, Astana, the other in

London.

Anger as schools drop Christian assemblies in favour of

multi-faith sessions or 'moments of reflection'

Prince Charles attends a school assembly

More than 140 primary and secondary schools across Britain

have won the right to opt out of the legal requirement






Now, because of the World Cup, Putin will think he really is God: Murdered Litvinenko's widow speaks out

Marina Litvinenko









Labour's failure on schools exposed: Billions spent, but standards plunge to a new low

Falling standards: Education experts are predicting that the latest snapshot of school standards, which is being published on Tuesday, will fail to show an improvement

A major international study will reveal next week that in less than a decade our schools have nosedived in rankings of teenagers’ performance in reading, maths and science.