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Giving homework to primary school pupils does not make any difference to their academic achievement, a new study shows.

Researchers say there is little link between how well primary school pupils do in national tests and the amount of homework they are set.

This is in contrast to secondary school pupils who are more likely to get higher grades if they regularly spend time doing extra work at home.

In today’s Britain, where we so often see Politician’s and others more interested in pursuing the solitary goal of unjust personal enrichment instead of representing, asserting and protecting the freedoms and liberties of others, we find a public hero....

A pensioner was jailed for a second time yesterday after refusing to pay her council tax.

Josephine Rooney was sent to prison two years ago after withholding payment because she believed the local authority had failed to prevent her once-elegant street from being overrun by drug dealers and prostitutes.

Hartington Street in Derby had become known to locals as Crack Alley and her constant lobbying of the council had proved fruitless, she said.

For over 5 years I have personally refused to pay any form of Income Tax on the grounds that it is un-Lawful for me to give aid and support to Traitors to the Crown.

By paying Tax I am in breach of the 1848 Treason Felony Act which quite clearly states that I cannot give this government any aid or support for they still continue to act treasonously against our Queen on a daily basis and have done for many years previously.

Still to this day I have not been brought to trial nor is there any trial pending for my refusal to pay. In fact they have just credited money back to me and wiped clean a complete Tax demand without me even paying a single penny.

Bar managers and store owners face large-scale compensation claims if their customers ogle their barmaids, waitresses or check-out staff.

New sex discrimination laws also mean that landlords who allow loud sexist jokes or banter among drinkers could be taken before a tribunal.

By LAURA CLARK - 23rd March 2008

Children under five could lose the freedom to play thanks to a "toddlers' curriculum" that imposes 69 learning goals on pre-school youngsters, teachers warned yesterday.

They fear the regime could become a box-ticking exercise, with nursery staff and childminders under pressure to follow it "to the letter".

Children from a school near Bridgend were set a homework project to plan their own funerals, it was revealed today.

The pupils as young as 12 were asked to decide what music they would like played and what they would want the mourners to wear at their own memorial service.