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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,… Read more »

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Ceop is set to be subsumed in the proposed National Crime Agency
Child protection chief resigns

By Peter Wozniak The head of the child exploitation and online protection centre (Ceop) has resigned over plans to subsume the organisation into the mooted National Crime Agency. Jim Gamble apparently objected to Home Office plans to merge the quango, arguing that the move would compromise its independence and effectiveness. A statement from Ceop said… Read more »

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Field: Parents need to rediscover 'tough love' approach
Field: Lack of parenting ‘tough love’ to blame for poverty

By politics.co.uk staff Children in poverty are held back by parents’ refusal to adopt an old-fashioned “tough love” approach, Frank Field has said. Mr Field, though a Labour MP, is the coalition’s ‘poverty tsar’ tasked with improving social mobility. In an article in the Telegraph, he stressed that foundation education efforts should be focused earlier,… Read more »