Like a lot of people contemplating the anniversary of the autumn of 1989, I look back on it with a mixture of pleasure at the recollections - and puzzlement that it must make me 20 years older. Full Article at BBC News

The number of 16- to 18-year-olds branded as “Neet” – not in education, employment or training – has risen amid growing fears that school-leavers are bearing the brunt of job shortages in the recession. Full Article at The Telegraph

David Cameron lays out plans to save millions in NHS reform "David Cameron promised yesterday to cut the cost of running the NHS by a third while handing day-to-day management of the health service over to an independent body. Full Article at ConservativeHome

David Cameron will seek a "manifesto mandate" to renegotiate Britain's relationship with Europe rather than hold a post-ratification referendum on Lisbon "Last night the influential website ConservativeHome reported that the Tories would not seek a... Full Article at ConservativeHome

When I was five my parents split up, and as neither of them was able to care for us at the time, my three-year-old brother and I went to live with my paternal grandmother. She was in her mid-sixties, a widow with a house full of antique furniture. Full Article at Times Online

Universities have failed to earn the right to charge £3,000 a year in tuition fees, David Willetts, the Shadow Universities Secretary, said yesterday. He told students that if the issue arose now he would probably not vote for higher fees. Full Article at Times Online