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The couple were not informed of the warning given to the council's adoption panel

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The couple were not informed of the warning given to the council's adoption panel by a woman who had fostered the children in the past They claim that they should have been fully informed The hearing continues.. A father who stabbed to death a burglar he found in his family's home was today jailed for five years. I thought something was happening to them."I decided to help my family and scare whoever was there off. I never intended to stab anyone."Mr Williams's family left court without commenting, but his cousin John Davies said after the last hearing: "Despite Roger's previous background, he was entitled to a fair trial like Mr Hastings.". Today Peter Hain, the minister for Europe, is hosting a lunch for young people to try to get across the message that membership of the European Union is good for us.

Let's hope the word goes out from beyond the Foreign Office dining room to students around the country that spending time on a Socrates-Erasmus exchange is a smart thing to do. For the fact is that the United Kingdom has a pitiful record when it comes to numbers signing up for the cross-European exchanges. French and German students hasten to the UK to study part of their degree at a British university, but increasingly few make the journey the other way. As our article on page 8 shows, numbers of UK students on these exchanges have fallen again for the academic year 2001-02. But universities should be equipping students with the education and experience they need for life in a world that is multicultural and multilingual. We are living in an era of increasing Europeanisation and globalisation. Yet languages seem to be regarded in Britain as a bit like tatting and embroidery in the 18th century – all right as accomplishments for those who can afford them, but not essential to the nation's future.The French have got the message.

At Sciences Po, the institute for political science in Paris, the dons have instituted a compulsory year abroad for undergraduates Yet in Britain there is a huge cultural complacency. Very few of our universities have formulated an international policy of any kind. A period overseas needs to be built into a degree programme, as the University Council on Modern Languages proposes.It should not be that difficult. Many universities lay on languages as optional extras, which you can take as part of your degree.

We do not favour giving universities more targets for this job. But unless universities wake up to the importance of seeing themselves in a global context, we shall find we have been completely left behind in a little monocultural ghetto in the North Sea talking to one another in English and unable to understand or communicate with our neighbours across the water.. Plans for the most sweeping devolution of power to the regions for 20 years were agreed by the French government yesterday. He said yesterday devolution would "decongest" and "give oxygen" to France Mr Raffarin also hopes, by rearranging the institutional furniture, to discover a painless way to reduce the size of the French state and shrink the country's army of civil servants. The minister for "local freedoms," Patrick Devedjian, describes it as the "mother of all other reforms".In other words, the government hopes, by shifting powers to the provinces, to bypass and eventually break the national power of the public-service unions that have destroyed previous efforts to rationalise the French state.

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