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• paper leaked new NHS Board says with ? 20bn budget direct health care reforms

• commitments to NHS waiting times in doubt

• Council sends letters of dismissal to all employees

• Council spending cuts: why the potholes aren 't filled

• Cuts to councils warning: don 't ignore homelessness

• Minister to unveil changes to free childcare

• Public-private pay gap is widest in 10 years

• State pensions shakeup of the privatization scheme, warns Labour

• 'first-time home buyers, he has put'

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• The government has pledged ?20m to a scheme helping rough sleepers off the street, reports Inside Housing. Housing minister Grant Shapps unveiled the Homelessness Transition Fund , which will help charities roll out the No Second Night Out pilot nationwide. The project, which is being trialled in London, lets charities identify new rough sleepers and help them off the streets immediately.

• Charities were told they should aim to produce at least 3,000 complaints Fundraising campaigns To achieve more impact, reports of the Third Sector. Fundraising consultant (and former SocietyGuardian.co.uk contributor) Ken Burnett told delegates at the Institute of Fundraising National Convention: .. "The more complaints we have, the more influence care Complainers We should look for 3,000 complaints, or even more."

• Teen binge drinking has reached climax, after the Independent. He says an annual survey of young people's drinking habits, Published by The NHS Information Centre in two weeks, is expected to lead to an increase in the number of teenagers, the show never to drink. The proportion of 11-15 year olds who have never tried alcohol has reportedly by 39% in 2001 to 49% decline last year.

• An official "performing wasn 't' pay was given a ? 100,000, reports the Telegraph. He said Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude stop criticizing the "Crazy" to reward poor performance in Whitehall and says it had to.

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• Shropshire , In which \ the Council's entire workforce was a dismissal letter - and has told workers they will only be reinstated if they agree to a 5.4% pay cut. Our history has been more than 160 comments received. I particularly liked the contribution of zeefor:

"I say let the entire staff call their bluff - 'T sign they should see whether they are capable of recruiting an ENTIRE staff are bloody Shropshire doesn \..' Don \ t have such a large population, and it would be amazing to see them all stand together and refuse to bullied. \ Be "

Commenter SaEzza get to have belonged to those to the letter:

"... Please note: to be dismissed if I do not accept, and under new conditions and a pay cut, my \ reuse" are not reasons for leaving the Council, referred to as redundancy and do not receive severance "Note. also that the 5.4% pay cut to which a salary of ? 13.500, they earn ? 51,000 applies. No word from those who earn more [including the Chief Executive]. I conclude remembers those asking that the Tory council members, who voted for this decision are not optional. They are all paid for sessions in which they participate as decisions are made. No big company here. "

• Primary care trusts have been developing use of geographic information systems, but their dissolution risks a loss of expertise, hears Tracey Caldwell

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School 's out on strikes, two million are children

Yesterday 's \ Teachers' strike - the largest since the 80's - 11 114 affected schools. More than 2 million students missed classes as teachers walked out, in addition to officers and employees of the public sector. So what everyone has to make it?

The Guardian 's Michael White reported that there was a textbook lesson in protest of the parent teacher:

Apparently Miss and Sir couldn 't risk covered by their students on the TV news bus tickets or paper handkerchiefs, and bare knees in the hot weather to see.

As pension projections questioned the need for reform, said Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers,:

"The teachers are the children and young people they teach, dedicated. But they can not stand back and see their pensions under attack, when all the evidence to show that they are affordable and sustainable and can reduce their costs."

Michael Gove, who he was "disappointed" for teachers in action, said one villain was called.

Here 's roundup of the day in pictures. And that's what you had to say.

Kev01 parents said:

I have a day off because of the strike, which means I have child care responsibilities. Nevertheless, I have no sympathy for people that this doctrine is nothing other than the child care to think. The strike made me think a little more about their situation. I know this is not to think the same for everyone, some have simply missed it on the child care.

Teacher LondonMix said:

All these people that teaching is easy to think that we are big holiday, doss about and have don 't working very hard with a laugh. Try to criticize it 'sa lot easier than, and research and to understand the reality, I think.

mreagle said:

Far more people around me are on strike than ever before, even those who normally sit on the fence, and while I don 't think that the government is something questionable about their \ do "democratic' policy, I 'm happy that people at least making a stand for a change.

But the strikers drew fierce criticism and support. OReally said:

Public sector employees were treated to tremendous years. Unsackable, unlimited sick pay, sick leave, generous pensions and teachers only work for 35 weeks per year. If they don 't like it why not stop and get a real job?

To hit on the right and wrong, said PaganEyes:

Apparently it 's OK to all schools and run "normal" people problems with their childcare if they' sa Royal Wedding. But it 's not OK to support the "bad" teachers to educate our children, or the "lazy" firefighters, our lives, or those lazy NHS nurses who visit, if you \ save 're sick.

amoamasamat added:

Teachers can go on strike last season, so that they could interfere with the preparations for GCSE and A levels. But they did not.

Monchberter and asked:

What 's more disturbing for parents and children? A few days civil action, or a lifetime to a below-average education?

Violator said on the issue at hand - - pensions:

The reality is my pension contributions are increased, the relative may be paying off a budget deficit, I had no role in creating.

BobbyDIn63 said:

It 's totally unfair that the private sector has poor pensions, but it' s not the fault of the public sector, it 's the fault of the business elite, the shafting them and us all.

Finally, this from Autocord:

I doubt that many of those who criticize the teachers would survive long in the classrooms.

The Guardian 's reporters rounded up the hard words and good humor throughout the country, from Merthyr Tydfil to Heathrow. And Martin Kettle warns that the strikes could the coalition 's Iraq has become now.

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Five- and six-year olds are being taught in pupil referral units, reveals the TES.

Elsewhere, German universities are one by one scrapping tuition fees, reports the Economist.

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Nell Dunn 's partner had wanted a peaceful death at home, but it didn' t turn out that way. Now a patron of Dignity in Dying, the playwright and novelist, talks about the 'number of errors' at the end of his life

It is common things that Nell Dunn misses. ". There is a table and chairs in the garden where we would often eat our breakfast and lunch, but it doesn 't seem any point in my food out there now," they no longer watch certain TV programs: "Funny little things that we both had to laugh about \." She misses is quiet, to think of - "What a luxury that" - in the same room as someone she loves.

Nell Dunn 's partner Dan Oestreicher, died two years ago. He was 77th He wanted to die at home, he wanted a dignified death. He had had lung cancer and the hospital sent him home a year ago, he thought, then die, but he had lived for 18 months. They were a good 18 months. He and Dunn had been together 35 years, and although she had spent every night together separately (they took an empty house to write, he liked "his own place") lived. Now he crossed the street in her bedroom in her bed, with the "terrible" one sent by the hospital as a receptacle for books and clothes. She stopped writing in order to care for him.

They talked, spent afternoons lying next to each other, they laughed a lot. Visiting friends and family. There are things that Dunn wished she had done differently, they did better. She wished she hadn 't said no to a chair ("It will ruin the carpet") that they hadn' t too busy, that was the time to wash his feet, that they are more about would have said how lucky he had brought her great love. But the day of his death is another matter. Dunn, who is 75, is a quiet, soft-spoken women. Your letter, in her groundbreaking novel Up the Junction, we say, or do you play - or steam Cancer Tales - always been to capture the voices of other people. But when she talks about this, it is heated and violent. "\" It shouldn 't happened, "\" have, she says, quoting from one of the doctors on "the series of error" that his death visited, then repeats it: "It shouldn 't happen. It shouldn' t have happened. "

Four district nurses, a doctor - - In his last 24 hours, but none of them seemed trained to deal with a home death Oestreicher was attended by five national health system. When Nell woke in the early morning hours, she realized Dan was dying. His lungs were bubbling, he was in a panic - he felt he drowned - and in pain. You couldn 't-ring for an ambulance, because they take him to the hospital, and he didn' t want you know that had four telephone numbers, including one for a hospice, but as she handed her rang said, was re-ring after 8.30am, when she called back it went straight to voicemail. Your doctor 's operation has been concluded. There was no morphine. A district nurse came chattering into their cell phones inches from Dan 's ear, a doctor, another nurse. Nobody knew where to find an open pharmacy. "I know it was a Sunday, but people die on a Sunday \ for God's sake \." There was confusion by the physician who attended indiscretion: ". I 'M is also paid for" Finally, in late morning, all dispersed and Nell and Dan were alone. She lay beside him on her bed. He came in and out of consciousness and 13.30 clock, Primrose her dog beside him, he died.

The nurse came with the morphine at 4pm. She had been gone for five hours. Was she embarrassed? "I don 't know. I didn' t let them in."

Dunn is intensely private and it's testament to the strength of her feelings that she has used her own experience in the writing of her latest, and last play, Home Death, a series of interlinking voices on the subject of dying at home. In Up the Junction (1963) and Poor Cow (1967), Dunn broke new ground by giving a voice to working-class women, providing an unsentimental and unflinching insight into their lives. In Steaming (1981), her award-winning drama, which was made into a film starring Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles and Diana Dors, her characters talked honestly and openly about men, life and sex. Home Death, which follows seven stories, is equally unflinching. There are good deaths in the play, and bad deaths, people who know what to ask for, and others, such as Nell, who are flailing.

One of the themes in the play follows the last days of the writer and jazz musician George Melly, who died at home of lung cancer and vascular dementia in July 2007. His wife, Diana, is a friend of Dunn 's - they know each other well known since the 60s and go to their dogs on a regular basis. As Dunn is a champion of the dignity Melly in Dying, the campaign to loosen the end of life decisions (including the possibility of euthanasia for mentally competent terminally ill). It was partly luck, Diana said to me, that allows Melly, dying quietly and without pain. They were regularly between Admiral and Marie Curie nurses who are specially trained to visit, and sat with him at the end of the night. "I am very bossy and competent," says Diana, who she knew enough to ask her GP for this service, in contrast to Dunn, who didn 't. meant to check the most recent funding palliative care, the enormous differences in the way health authorities (varies by spending ? 186 a person to ? 6,000) with home deaths has been called for a reform in this area. Diana Melly is firmly behind this, but also believes that we don 't enough to look forward to their death or the death of our loved ones. "It is people think, just as the government about what they want to think. We plan for births and marriages. We don 't plan enough for our old age and death."

In her case, she is not only to ensure there were enough nurses and drugs, and that the bed was in place, they spoke with Melly on what he wanted. One of her favorite memories is an afternoon in the garden, very near the end, "Tom and George and his son there, sitting side by side, to find the right King Lear speech for his funeral." They also invited the House Melly 's many fans - she had an open marriage - including one for which they Greckel (after a screeching Caribbean bird) known hated because they knew that he would like. "And indeed it was good. When someone dies, a lot of crap goes out the window."

She says George wasn't scared, and that made things easier. "He knew if it was necessary, I would put a pillow over his face." They joked a lot. "And in a way his ego shrank so much when he was ill, he was easier to get on with." The nurses had warned her he might be agitated at the end, and that he might cough up a lot of blood – not being told what might happen was one of the things that panicked Dunn, although, in the end, neither of these things happened. It was in the middle of the night. The nurse called her and Diana sat and held his hand and he just stopped breathing. "I don't think I ever thought it would be bad. Imagine not being there. That would be terrible. I was there at the birth of my first grandchild. And this felt the same. It is a privilege to be with someone who is dying."

Diana visited George 's body at the funeral home and prepared to be washed and combed her hair. Nell spent the whole day after Dan 's death, lay beside his body, surrounded by his children and theirs. "In the end, my kids in the garden, but otherwise we were comfortable with him. It was wonderful to be with him. It felt absolutely right. It didn 't be alarming in any way." Your running hands through her hair - she does cupping of the neck. "It seems like yesterday. I'm still in shock. It is quite difficult for me to go to the movies or the theater. It is as if I have to be vigilant all the time." It hasn 't easier? "I don 't think it will be easier. I don' t know. So far it hasn 't"

Diana Melly says: ... "You can prepare for death, but the whole thing is not about someone, one is completely unprepared, I was with George for 45 years, since I was 23, I mean, it 's Extraordinary, is not around. It continues to be terrible. "

Both find solace in friendship. "You need people you love and you feel better by some people you must find love \," says Dunn. Home Death is absolutely their last game - "... I haven 't have the brain is not enough it seems there is no great drama on the set" She loves her children, her grandchildren, and she is " addicted "Richmond Park, where she goes her surviving dog, Iris.

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"Dream Teacher 'advise MPs. Pinch me someone, quick

As I write this, MPs are interviewing "Teacher '\ Jamie Oliver' s TV" School "on student behavior. These include David Starkey calm, which is known to use a fat joke in troubled students.

The education select committee appears to believe that "while dream school had only 20 students, many of the challenges that they find and their teachers over in the UK, and in other schools and colleges as well as".

Marvellous. While the cast of Casualty sorts the NHS, perhaps the residents of the Big Brother house could advise MPs on prisoner voting?

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Rhee (a pseudonym to protect her and her family) is a freshly arrived North Korean defector who only three months ago was struggling to survive in a labour camp.

This was her first time in a shopping mall and she was somewhat overwhelmed.

He did take them in and feed them, but at a price. His wooden house was divided into two. The man lived with his family on one side, and on the other North Korean girls sat at computers in front of webcams, performing for sex chatlines.

"We have food but no money, and we could 't go outside. It was like a prison. There were four of us are there for almost a year. At one point escaped, one of the girls, but they came later on his own a month. She knew that no one know there, and didn 't the language of \. "

After 11 months in prison, Sang-mi and one of the other girls ran away when one of her kidnappers 's friends in office, left. She persuaded him that they were allowed to take a break.

Shortly after she disappeared, the police knocked on the door. Whether you know a relationship between the two events, not Rhee not, or they are reluctant to speculate. She and the other remaining girls were abducted to North Korea and imprisoned in a labor camp outside the city Hoeryong. According to its description, it can North Korea 's infamous Camp 22 have the largest concentration camps in the country.

"We were in huge wooden huts in the mountains. There were about 1,000 women in our cabin and we were so squashed we had to sleep with our legs lock," she said. "Mostly it was people like me who tried to flee and were common criminals. We had to eat rice bowls and had to work cutting down trees and pull the wood back with chains."

"If it was really cold in the winter, five or six women are dying every day and the other prisoners would have to carry the corpses. I still dream of \."

But they are willing to talk, thanks largely to the RLP's British director, Dr Chris Dolan. Dolan first heard of wartime sexual violence against men in the late 1990s while researching his PhD in northern Uganda, and he sensed that the problem might be dramatically underestimated. Keen to gain a fuller grasp of its depth and nature, he put up posters throughout Kampala in June 2009 announcing a "workshop" on the issue in a local school. On the day, 150 men arrived. In a burst of candour, one attendee admitted: "It's happened to all of us here." It soon became known among Uganda's 200,000-strong refugee population that the RLP were helping men who had been raped during conflict. Slowly, more victims began to come forward.

"No. Men

"What about men?"

of them?" I say.

As part of an attempt to correct this, the RLP produced a documentary in 2010 called

It reminds me of a scene described by Eunice Owiny: "There is a married couple," she said. "The man has been raped, the woman has been raped. Disclosure is easy for the woman. She gets the medical treatment, she gets the attention, she's supported by so many organisations. But the man is inside, dying."

As I leave Uganda, there's a detail of a story that I can't forget. Before receiving help from the RLP, one man went to see his local doctor. He told him he had been raped four times, that he was injured and depressed and his wife had threatened to leave him. The doctor gave him a Panadol.