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1. 21. Inmates to get email access

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 02 January 2007 PRISONERS are to be given access to email for the first time in a bid to cut reoffending. The Home Office is drawing up plans for a pilot scheme in a single jail to give inmates internet use - despite previous fears that it could be a security risk.

2. 22. Bury primary enters special measures

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 January 2007 A PRIMARY school in Bury has been placed in special measures, following a damning Ofsted report. But teachers are determined to bounce back.

3. 23. Head hits at delays in schools revamp

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 January 2007 A HEAD teacher from Manchester has expressed his frustration at delays to the government's school refurbishment programme. In 2004, the government vowed to spend é45bn rebuilding or refurbishing all of Britain's 3,500 secondary schools. But now it has emerged that initial forecasts were `too optimistic'.

4. 24. Background: Why schools must do better

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 January 2007 GCSE performance tables published this month showed results at Manchester schools were improving faster than the national average. But for many parents the bottom line was that the city still ranked 145th out of 150 council areas up and down the country.

5. 25. Capita founder is new chairman at The Lowry

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 23 January 2007 NEW chairman of The Lowry, the arts centre on Salford Quays, is Rodney Aldridge, OBE, the man behind the development of Capita Group and a former chairman of the CBI's Public Services Strategy Board.

6. 26. Police question 'school drugs gangs' claim

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 25 January 2007 POLICE and council bosses today questioned the Government's claim that criminal gangs were infiltrating schools in Manchester and using children as drug mules.

7. 27. The sad truth about city's truancy

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 11 January 2007 TODAY'S league tables give a definitive picture of absence at individual schools and average attendances for each local authority. They show that Manchester had the worst truancy rate in the country and the second worst authorised absence rate.

8. 28. War hero breaks his silence

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 19 January 2007 A SOLDIER captured and held at Auschwitz during the Second World War has been persuaded by school children to speak publicly about his experiences for the first time.

9. 29. Pressure grows for English parliament

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 18 January 2007 THE celebration of the 300-year union between England and Scotland has fuelled debate over whether there should be a separate assembly south of the border.

10. 30. Half of Manchester's children 'live in poverty'

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 17 January 2007 POVERTY is "scarring" British cities, new figures have indicated. Inner city areas top the list - which was compiled using data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - with more than half of children in Manchester Central described as living in poverty.

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