Poorer children disproportionately affected by austerity measures, says UN
UN committee calls on ministers to act as it says benefit cap and tax credit cuts are undermining children’s rights to adequate standard of living
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Minister tells schools to ignore high court ruling on term-time holidays
Nick Gibb says headteachers should continue applying rules that allow parents to be fined over unauthorised absences
Read moreStop HS2 and share the billions across the rail network instead
Letters: HS2 is not just a huge white elephant. It is the biggest threat to the public and private investment upgrades the rail network urgently needs to increase capacity and reduce overcrowding
Read moreEE has given my pay-as-you-go number to someone else
The network passes me from pillar to post every time I call to get to the bottom of the issue
Read moreLuton councillor Mohammed Ashraf has been found guilty of falsifying a document
A serving Luton councillor has been found guilty of falsifying a document in an attempt to trick a trading standards officer from his OWN authority. Mohammed Ashraf, 59, fabricated the document to give the impression that his firm, Luton Travel Services, was covered by Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (ATOL). Cllr Ashraf, who was previously Luton Borough Council’s portfolio holder for
Read moreRoy Hodgson rejects call for England to be cynical as team head for France
• Wayne Rooney has said England need to develop nastiness
• Hodgson: ‘I won’t be spending time teaching players to feign injury’
‘We had a dragon on top of the car’: readers on the 1975 Europe referendum
From heckling Shirley Williams to driving around Luton with a wooden dragon, Guardian readers share their memories
Read moreElliott Johnson searched internet for ways to kill himself, inquest hears
Political activist found dead on rail tracks also left three letters, one of which accuses former Tory aide Mark Clarke of bullying
Read moreAirlines call for EU-wide air traffic control to stop French strike disruption
Ryanair, easyJet and IAG will push EU to let controllers from neighbouring countries manage French skies during strikes
Read moreWhat drugs are on the rise in Britain?
After annual survey finds MDMA is making a comeback, we ask drug counsellors about other substances – and what can be done
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