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1. 581. Time is of the essence

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 18 February 2004 HE came to England as a five-year-old refugee - now he sits proudly as the boss of a £36m-turnover empire which distributes perfumes, toiletries and cosmetics.&  But Sanjay Vadera has fading memories of the time his frightened family fled their native Uganda in 1972.

2. 582. School in drugs stop and search

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 13 February 2004 TEACHERS at a Manchester secondary school will search pupils suspected of carrying drugs. It follows an incident on a bus last week, in which two 14-year-old boys were caught smoking cannabis on their way to school.

3. 583. Recipe for a successful career

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 18 February 2004 WHAT'S the recipe for a successful career? Take one young person. Add expert teaching, a touch of guidance and a light sprinkling of encouragement.

4. 584. Pupils to face random drug tests

   Manchester Evening News, Sunday 22 February 2004 TONY Blair says schools heads will get new powers to order pupils to have random drugs tests. In an interview with a national newspaper, the Prime Minister said headteachers will be issued with guidance on how to deal with pupils they suspect are taking drugs.

5. 585. No sleep 'til we're millionaires

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 03 February 2004 TWO friends who set up an e-learning business in a tiny front bedroom five years ago, are set to set out and become millionaires.

6. 586. Unskilled dogged by job threat warns Digby

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 09 February 2004 A STARK warning that British workers who don't have a skill soon won't have a job has come from top business chief Digby Jones.

7. 587. Teachers won't strike over 'non qualified' staff

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 11 February 2004 AN Oldham secondary school is to continue using unqualified staff to cover classes, after a ballot for strike action failed. The Radclyffe School appointed four 'learning managers' to cover classes whenever teachers were absent.

8. 588. ML still selling

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 09 February 2004 WARRINGTON-based biotech firm ML Laboratories today continued its policy of selling non-core assets by disposing of an educational training subsidiary.

9. 589. Stopping the dental rot

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 12 February 2004 ENTIRE families are living without a toothbrush as the shocking state of Manchester's dental health emerged today. A report revealed that 60 per cent of Mancunian five-year-olds already had some decay, compared to a national average of just under 40 per cent.

10. 590. 'Cheats robbed my son of place'

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 05 February 2004 SUSAN Davis blames parents who lie about their addresses for the failure of her honest efforts to get her 14-year-old son into a popular south Manchester school. The 53-year-old tried in vain for nearly two years to secure a place at Parrs Wood High School for Adam.

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