Is it OK if someone wants to live for years on a bench? (BBC News Online)
A large bulky object wrapped in a bright blue tarpaulin. It is sitting in the middle of the pavement. It could be an old piano, maintenance equipment, a delivery waiting to be unpacked. But then the tarpaulin starts to move, an arm appears and the cover is pulled back to reveal a man and a woman, swaddled in blankets sitting on a bench. They have been living on this bench on a busy London street for more than four years. By day they sit there watching the world go by. At night they pull the cover over and sleep. The
50 years of gay rights by the people who lived it (BBC News online)
"They came in and they said: 'Get up, get downstairs, you're under arrest'.†A colleague had told the Royal Navy police that Emma was a lesbian.
How did the pro-paedophile group PIE exist openly for 10 years? (BBC News online)
The Paedophile Information Exchange was affiliated to the National Council for Civil Liberties - now Liberty - in the late 1970s and early 1980s. How did pro-paedophile campaigners operate so openly?
France’s village problem (Financial Times)
In crowded Britain, villages like this would be overrun by city dwellers seeking pretty weekend cottages. But France is littered with beautiful villages – what to do with them all?
Self-build: Should people build their own homes? (BBC News online)
In reality, few Britons follow the Grand Designs model. The show's creator Kevin McCloud argues that Britons buy houses like baked beans - as generic products from a developer's catalogue - rather than creating something that fits their lifestyle.
Back to education (Children & Young People Now)
Alternative education - where kids excluded from school end up - is changing. But will more choice lead to better performance?
The spitting ban (BBC news online)
Spitting in the street may be unpleasant but should we outlaw it, as one councillor is demanding?
The non-job row (BBC news online)
Newspapers have savagely attacked the retention of council "non-jobs" while front line services are axed.
No going back to jail (Children & Young People Now)
Giyon Olua can't remember all the crimes he committed before his 16th birthday.
The new National Service in action (Children & Young People Now)
A sneak preview of what is to become David Cameron's pet project - the National Citizen Service.