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Controversy over Tory tuition fee promise

Labour politicians are tonight refuting suggestions from the Conservatives that it is possible to pay for the abolition of tuition fees by reversing Government plans to send half of all young people to university. In a speech at the University of London today, Iain Duncan Smith described the introduction of tuition fees in 1997 as… Read more »

‘Mass grave’ found in Iraq

The bodies of 15,000 Iraqis have allegedly been found in a mass grave to the north of Baghdad. The reports come from an opposition group, which claims that the remains belong to Shia Muslims who were killed by Saddam Hussein’s regime. The group Human Rights Watch has claimed that the figure is nearer 1,000 graves… Read more »