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Riots may be controlled with chemicals
Police look at firing chemical irritants at rioters in search for 'less lethal' weapons, such as plastic bullets, to deal with civil disorderFuture riots could be quelled by projectiles containing...
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Baton rounds: the injured victim – and the police officer
Photographer Tony Murray still suffers the effects of being hit by a baton round last July, but a senior officer defends their useTony Murray was about to call it a day after yet another 12 July...
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New wave of well-off Pakistani women drawn to conservative Islam
Wealthy, educated women are increasingly embracing the trend for religious inquiry and observanceAll the women working in the information technology division of the Bank of Punjab's headquarters in the...
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Academies: old research is being wrongly used to validate them
The coalition's academy programme is not the same as Labour's, so why is our old research being used to support them, asks Stephen MachinUniversity researchers are under increasing pressure to make...
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Comprehensives, local authorities, autonomy – time to debunk a few myths
Mossbourne academy did not replace a failing comprehensive and local authorities do not run schools … Fiona Millar offers a few facts and figures to aid the fight against misinformationFor too many...
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Why the Titanic always sinks | Jenny Diski
Like children replaying a trauma, we are drawn to the perfect drama of the loss of the great 20th-century cruise linerHow many times does the Titanic have to sink before we've had enough? In the latest...
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Forced marriage: the pupils who vanish in the holidays
Why aren't schools doing more to educate children about forced marriage?When pupils are at imminent risk of forced marriage, schools sometimes have to take desperate measures. For Liz Coffey, principal...
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Dan Evans aims for Wimbledon wild card after heartening Davis Cup
• Good results in challengers may seal place in top 250• British captain hopes Andy Murray will play next seasonDan Evans has set his sights on earning a Wimbledon wild card after giving another...
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Huddersfield Giants 22-4 Hull | Super League match report
• Huddersfield Giants 22-4 HullHuddersfield added credibility to their position at the summit of the Super League table and doubled their lead to two points by grinding down a Hull team who showed that...
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Lots of rain means Grand National conditions will be unusually testing
• 13mm in one day at Aintree with more forecast• Trainer of Le Beau Bai enthused by chance of soft goingSaturday's Grand National is expected to be run in the most testing conditions for more than a...
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Aston Villa 1-1 Stoke City | Premier League match report
Aston Villa continue to edge clear of the bottom three, although in many ways this represented a missed opportunity for Alex McLeish and his players, as Robert Huth's fifth goal of the season denied...
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New scheme succeeds in keeping excluded children in mainstream school
A groundbreaking initiative, that puts money and responsibility in headteachers' hands, is helping to keep children who face exclusion in mainstream educationAt the age of 10, Finley was excluded from...
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Elected city mayors: the delusions and dangers of power freak politics | John...
A comfy consensus has been reached on the merits of elected mayors, despite an absence of any real debate on the issueThe north-south divide, the tyranny of the City, the decline of mainstream...
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NUT urges strikes and mass resistance in opposition to local pay
National Union of Teacher's annual conference closes with call to oppose policies seen as part of agenda to privatise educationSchools face further disruption after teachers voted on Monday to stage a...
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Wellcome Trust joins 'academic spring' to open up science
Wellcome backs campaign to break stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared free online One of the world's largest funders of science is to throw its weight behind a...
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Academic spring: how an angry maths blog sparked a scientific revolution
Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledgeIt began with a frustrated blogpost by a distinguished mathematician. Tim Gowers...
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Rickie Lambert's double at Crystal Palace takes Southampton clear
• Southampton striker took his tally for season to 26• Jon Stead scores at both ends as Bristol City beat CoventryTwo goals from Rickie Lambert were enough for Southampton to win 2-0 at Crystal Palace...
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NHS failings that left babies with brain damage set to cost £235m
NHS Litigation Authority sets aside £235.4m to settle 60 cases in which hospital staff failed to spot hypoglycaemia in newbornsBlunders by hospital staff which leave newborn babies brain-damaged in the...
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Country diary: Stanage, Peak District: Desperately seeking … a ring ouzel
Stanage, Peak District: I find a path in wet, boggy ground. If I was a ring ouzel looking for worms, I think that's where I'd go in dry weatherStanage is the grandest and longest gritstone edge in the...
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Letters: Keep off the grass
If Cardinal O'Brien continues to sound so combative (Senior Catholic tells followers to wear a cross every day, 7 April), he risks incurring the sort of vituperation now regularly dished out to...
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