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1. 1. Truancy shock for minister

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 November 2005

   TRUANCY figures in the constituency of Education Secretary Ruth Kelly are among the worst in the country, it has emerged.

   Just over half of all secondary school pupils in Bolton West skipped lessons in the past year, the official statistics show.

2. 2. Police probe threats to United bosses

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 09 June 2005 POLICE have launched an investigation into threats issued by extremist Manchester United fans against the club and its directors following the takeover by US tycoon Malcolm Glazer. The Greater Manchester force has revealed it has drawn up contingency plans to deal with "all manner of demonstrations and disturbances" relating to the '790m buyout.

3. 3. Kelly's curbs on unruly children

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 21 October 2005

   MINISTERS were today promising to bring in new laws setting out the rights of teachers to discipline and restrain unruly pupils.

4. 4. NHS agrees to pay life-saving bill

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 28 November 2005 A CANCER patient has won a second battle to get the NHS to pay for life-saving treatment.

5. 5. Sir sent home in check delay

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 September 2005 A HEADTEACHER who turns up each day at school has to leave when his pupils arrive because of a delay over paperwork.

6. 6. Drugs war 'being won' as addicts seek help

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 15 March 2005 THE war against drugs is being won in Greater Manchester, say experts charged with tackling addiction in the region.

7. 7. Thugs stone bus of 'posh pupils'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 20 October 2005 THUGS who attacked a bus carrying private school pupils may have deliberately targeted it because it is used by "posh kids".

8. 8. Men `smarter than women'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 25 August 2005 HELL hath no fury like a woman scorned. But psychologists have risked the wrath of half the world's population with a dangerously simple pronouncement: men are smarter than women.

9. 9. Gun teacher 'should not get job back'

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 09 May 2005 LEADING anti-gun campaigners say that Linda Walker should not keep her teaching job. The mother-of-three, who fired a pellet gun near youths she claimed had vandalised her family home, was freed by the Court of Appeal in London last week.

10. 10. Oldham boy dances for joy

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 29 December 2005 A 12-YEAR-OLD boy from Oldham has landed the lead role in a hit West End musical. Travis Yates has been selected from thousands of hopefuls to play the title role in Billy Elliot The Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre.

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