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Steiner school dilemma in Cambridge
With our education system failing so many of our young people, an excellent and affordable alternative is the more personal approach offered by Rudolph Steiner schools. Steiner believed that education should be designed to meet the changing needs of a child as they...
Killer on loose in Cambridge after day trip to city
Can John Reid please tell me why a dangerous killer is on the loose in Cambridge? He slipped the net in Debenham's yesterday while on a day trip to the city from nearby Haverhill Prison. We have been warned not to approach Mark Ryder . He killed a man after escaping...
Our face to face with Andrew Lansley
It's not every day you get the chance to be part of a small group discussing hot topics of the day with a Shadow Minister. Especially when the subject is health, an issue causing great concern up and down the country as our hospital's struggle to survive and staff...
James’ transatlantic race for Mid-Norfolk
Distance was no object for barrister James Tumbridge, who is now on the latest shortlist of 10 for the next round of Conservative candidates contesting the plum Mid-Norfolk seat tomorrow. He had flown to Canada for the weekend when the message came to say there was...
Surely now is the time for Patricia Hewitt to resign
With our NHS limping from one catastrophe to another, our primary care trusts struggling to balance their books after being millions in debt, forcing staff cuts and bed closures on an essential front-line service, surely this is the time for Patricia Hewitt to resign....
Now Annunziata wants Mid-Norfolk
There's been some chopping and changing on the Mid-Norfolk shortlist after the glamorous Louise Bagshawe found success in Corby and Maria Hutchings, who lashed out at Blair on live TV last year over special school closures, wants to concentrate on Stevenage. Two very...
Is the UK prepared for TB threat?
While the UK gears itself in its usual haphazard way for influenza and bird flu, what thought is it giving to the threat of a TB outbreak? Health officials raised the alert yesterday over a new drug-resistant and more deadly form of tuberculosis, saying the...
Why isn’t £2.50 a day value for money for Alzheimer sufferers?
I don't understand the reasons for NICE's refusal to allow Alzheimer sufferers access to drugs costing £2.50 a day at the early stage of this terrible, soul destroying illness. There was enough evidence on the news this morning from sufferers who described the...
Defra drowns in its inefficiency
I was hoping someone from Defra with a nuance of intelligence would have picked up on some of excellent points raised in this Sunday Times article on freeing our congested roads by using our rivers and sea more. Each barge can carry the equivalent of more than 20...