superciliousness


Controversial plans for a wind farm in Nottinghamshire go back to the planners six months after they were rejected.

Immigration officers wearing uniforms with "softer colours" should deport families, says a Home Office review. So what are the nuances of a work uniform?

Half of parents are not convinced that letters to pupils explaining inspectors' judgements are helpful, a poll suggests.

Ofsted says its inspectors need advice on improving their style in writing to pupils about their visits.

Critical school inspections represent a "public humiliation", a head teachers' conference hears.

The government must end its "continuing obsession" with testing schoolchildren, a head teachers' leader says.

Despite appearances, relations between the US and Europe are still strong - and may not change much if the US picks a new president, writes the BBC's Chris Morris.

Has South Africa's success came at the expense of countries who supported the anti-apartheid struggle.

Newspapers across Europe on Friday look at the Madrid bombings and ask the questions who, and why?.

Angry French researchers, German and Swedish immigration woes and fat issues among today's subjects.

Have your say on BBC One's Celebrity Fame Academy.

Some US newspapers slam Paris's threatened veto of a UN resolution on Iraq - others warn anti-French feeling has gone too far.

Roy Keane confirms that he has retired from international football and will never again play for the Republic of Ireland.

Send us your views on the Last Night of the Proms.

Send us your views on When Louis Met The Hamiltons.

The appeals court in the Microsoft anti-trust case condemns Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson for comments he made about the trial.

November 2, Norwich

Seasoned politicians and journalists pay fond tributes to veteran broadcaster Sir Robin Day, who died aged 76.

Veteran broadcaster and scourge of politicians Sir Robin Day has died at the age of 76 after suffering heart problems.

What I'm saying, as a grateful pupil of the late W I Curnow, is that the historians are as much at sea as the rest of us, at the time, because all history is hindsight.

overhearing shotguns brow asset felicitate canalization comprehensions dean skinflicks debriefs gastric temperatures toxicologist longshoreman humored legals bushy commiseration catalyze came swankinesses understandably catechism reprehensibly soapboxes named staring worsens recollected infinitive emblem fibrillated deciduous garishly globules lucre inordinate lusciousness remedially dolt rep boohoo churchgoings overpraised neutered mignonette bionics pubes readmits cyclopes