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1. 1. Schools facing single-sex ban

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 28 June 2006 EDUCATION chiefs in Manchester are considering scrapping single-sex education in state secondary schools. Parents are being asked whether they want to retain the five existing boys' and girls' schools - or change to an entirely co-educational system.

2. 2. Akabusi: How kids can stay in front

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 February 2006 OLYMPIC medallist Kriss Akabusi launched Challenge Manchester by telling schoolchildren: If you want to get ahead, get an education.

3. 3. Super-head Jean is sacked

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 August 2006 A 'SUPER-HEAD' earning é140,000 a year has been sacked over a damning report into her running of a Manchester school.

4. 4. Hands up for the multi-faith schools

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 March 2006 RELIGIOUS leaders across the region have backed calls for faith schools to accept a proportion of pupils with different beliefs.

5. 5. Budget tip for Brown

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 18 March 2006 GORDON Brown has been urged to freeze taxes in next week's Budget. Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said the Chancellor should simplify the tax system, improve public transport and road network and prune back the rapidly-growing number of public sector jobs.

6. 6. 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.

7. 7. Legacy of hope in forgotten £366,000

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 14 February 2006 THEY were the grants from centuries past that helped young men tour the continent, would-be bakers learn their trade, and "sons of widows" to study architecture. Manchester City Council has discovered '366,000 from dozens of obsolete bursaries dating back to 1708 - and wants to use the cash for a new age of philanthropy.

8. 8. Put the Tory leader on the spot...

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 06 April 2006 TORY leaders arrive in the city tonight for their spring conference - and we want you to put leader David Cameron on the spot!

9. 9. Salford reveals 'media capital' centre

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 04 July 2006 SALFORD could become the media training capital of Britain as part of its bid to bring BBC jobs to the north. New details of the planned Media City at Salford Quays can be revealed today and include a cutting-edge training centre.

10. 10. Stringer: Brown damaged by disloyalty

    Manchester Evening News, Monday 11 September 2006 GORDON Brown's "Scottishness" and disloyalty to Tony Blair could hit his chances of becoming prime minister, according to Blackley MP Graham Stringer.

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