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1. 51. Parents 'should stay at home with truants'

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 20 July 2005 THE government today defended controversial plans to punish the parents of unruly children by forcing them to stay at home to look after them.

2. 52. Brady backs down in grammar school row

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 18 May 2007 TORY MP Graham Brady has been forced to back down in a row over grammar schools.

3. 53. Lib-Dem £230m teacher pledge

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 27 April 2005 PLANS to spend '230m to train up to 44,000 teachers in English, maths, science and modern languages were unveiled by the Liberal Democrats.

4. 54. Blair: I'll stay to the end if we win

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 September 2004 TONY Blair said today that if he won an historic third term in government he would stay the course.

5. 55. Online checks to beat perverts

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 01 March 2006 PARENTS are to get the power to check the background of nannies and private tutors on their computer to avoid hiring perverts.

6. 56. Tories back school speed curb

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 21 April 2004 TORIES called for 20mph speed limits outside all schools as part of a "safer driving" plan. But they also said there are too many speed cameras and promised to reduce the number, ensuring they are sited only at accident blackspots.

7. 57. Brown tries to be a good sport

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 23 March 2006 PRIME Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown yesterday presented a Budget helping schoolchildren, businesses and sport - but punishing smokers and the owners of gas-guzzling cars.

8. 58. All schools to ban junk food

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 28 September 2005 CHEAP bangers, burgers and fizzy drinks are to be banned from all schools.

9. 59. I've still got a lot to do, says Blair

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 27 September 2005 TONY BLAIR was today setting out ambitious plans for more improvements to public services during the Labour Government's historic third term.

10. 60. Blair's pledge on Metrolink

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 09 March 2005 PLANS to extend the Greater Manchester Metrolink look set to be in Labour's election manifesto, Tony Blair told our political editor Ian Craig in a one-to-one interview at Downing Street.

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