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Police X-ray showing a knife crime victim
Knife crime lessons sought

By politics.co.uk staff The government’s anti-knife crime tsar Brooke Kinsella wants lessons on knife crime and gun crime to be incorporated into the national curriculum. Her report into the issue to be submitted to home secretary Theresa May this week will call on teachers to get past the negative stigma of acknowledging the problem exists…. Read more »

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Andrew Mitchell at the 2010 Tory party conference
Mitchell faces ‘Chocfinger’ questions

By politics.co.uk staff Andrew Mitchell’s personal intervention in a lobbying case involving a rich cocoa magnate triggered concerns among Foreign Office officials, it has emerged. Civil servants reportedly questioned the appropriateness of the international development secretary’s involvement in a bid to improve business conditions in Ghana for businessman Anthony Ward, whose dominance of the global… Read more »