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1. 21. Manchester wins Ofsted jobs boom

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 24 November 2004 THE national schools watchdog is planning to create hundreds of more jobs - in Manchester. Ofsted currently employs 2,800 staff at a network of offices around the country. But by 2008 it wants to concentrate 2,000 around three regions, Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester.

2. 22. University targets under fire

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 02 November 2004 MINISTERS are considering scrapping the controversial new targets that sparked a major row over getting more state school students into top universities.

3. 23. Full transcript of the text session

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 25 November 2004 This is the transcript of Prime Minister Tony Blair's text-chat as it went out to mobile phone-users today, supplied by mobile phone operators O2. Mr Blair's contributions are not verbatim transcripts of what he actually said, but summaries compiled by moderators as the chat took place.

4. 24. The £800,000 win a mum threw away

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 November 2004 A BETTING syndicate scooped more than '800,000 on the horses - then went into a panic after their winning ticket was thrown away into a wastepaper bin.

5. 25. How Dame Jean changed Whalley High

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 November 2004 DAME Jean took over the running of Whalley Range High School for Girls nine years ago when there were only 766 pupils on the register, with 23 in the sixth form.

6. 26. Compass maps out new strategy for school meals

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 November 2004 CATERING giant Compass today said it had become more selective about school lunch contracts after the division contributed to a fall in full-year profits.

7. 27. School brawl boy dies

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 November 2004 A BOY of 15 died today after a fight with another teenager at school. Police were called to Broadoak Comprehensive in Warburton Lane, Partington, at 12.30pm following reports of an "altercation".

8. 28. Gary leads from the the back

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 06 November 2004 REDS and England defender Gary Neville is on the attack. His backing of an Oxfam project to provide schooling for children in Africa has got his fellow professionals lining up to donate a day's pay this Christmas.

9. 29. Fernanda is a great draw

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 12 November 2004 BALLET star Fernanda Oliveira took time off from her title role in Romeo and Juliet at Manchester's Palace Theatre - to play Juliet for boys at Manchester Grammar School.

10. 30. Building costs set to soar

    Manchester Evening News, Monday 08 November 2004 THE cost of building is set to go up. International construction consultancy EC Harris reports that record prices for oil, and a 38 per cent increase in reinforcement prices, have pushed up construction tender prices by 5.3 per cent across the country over the past year.

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