Mortgage aid cut ‘will see disabled people lose homes’

Housing in south London: the benefit is to be reduced from 6.08% to what the government says is the Bank of England average mortgage rate of 3.67%. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Almost 65,000 disabled people, including those with profound mental health problems, are at risk of losing... 

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Exams: changing habits may spell end for pen-and-paper tests

Traditional written exams could be overtaken by on-screen tests to match youngsters’ 21st century skills. Photograph: Rex Features The era of the pen-and-paper exam is drawing to a close because teenagers are more comfortable typing answers on a keyboard than writing them down, the government’s... 

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Unison goes to court to block planned NHS shake-up

The Unison union will go to court to try to block the government’s proposed NHS reforms. Photograph: Cate Gillon/Getty Images The public sector union Unison today said it would go to court to try to block the coalition government’s plans for a radical reorganisation of the NHS. The... 

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Democratic Veteran October Archives

of the other folks who are taking a 'wait and see' atude there are a couple of them in that slimefest mockumentary Leader doesn't cry when confronted with this bad newsDemocratic Veteran October Archives...

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Philip Green is an odd choice for efficiency tsar | Will Straw

Arcadia boss, Sir Philip Green, has just been appointed efficiency tsar. Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage Earlier this week, David Cameron wrote in the Sun: “Cutting benefit fraud is a no-brainer. That’s why benefit fraud is the first and the deepest cut we will make.”... 

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