In Today's Papers

Overhaul tax credits or miss key child poverty targets, Brown told
Gordon Brown will miss crucial child poverty targets unless he signals, in his pre-budget report tomorrow, a complete overhaul of the troubled £14bn tax credits system, leading anti-poverty campaigners have warned the chancellor.
Source:- The Guardian, Tuesday 5 December 2006, page 25

Cutting £700m of job adverts ‘would pay for 35,000 nurses’
The Conservatives have criticised as wasteful the almost £800m spent on advertising public sector jobs, and said £700m could be saved, paying for 35,000 nurses.

The report revealed the government spent twice as much on advertising as the private sector, despite making up 20 per cent of the workforce.
Source:- The Daily Telegraph, Tuesday 5 December 2006, page 4

Nurseries call for more cash to fund free places
Private nurseries will call on the government today to give them more money to fund free nursery places for three and four-year-olds or let them charge parents a top-up fee.

Source:- The Guardian, Tuesday 5 December 2006, page 10

Charity hopes to make a real point in virtual game world
Save the Children is the first British charity to rattle a virtual tin in the 3D online world of Second Life.
Source:- The Guardian, Tuesday 5 December 2006, page 4

Scottish news
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Welsh news
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