Click here to create your personal news page. The news that appears on Willetts will appear there and be constantly updated. You can then modify the page, share it with your friends, or export it and have it appear elsewhere.
You can also create a personal news page and follow the news that interests you by clicking on the tab labelled 'New page'.
David Willetts is looking unusually pink, well-scrubbed and excited – and for good reason. He has cycled into work and had a quick shower. And he has just learnt that Gordon Brown made a big boo-boo when he increased student grants last year. The government simply hadn't done its sums properly and is having now to cut grants to balance the books.
In his forthcoming book, Teenage Flicks, Paul Willetts tracks down some of Britain's best-known football professionals, pundits, enthusiasts and comics to gather their reminiscences of teenage Subbuteo fandom. In these extracts from the book, Graham Taylor and David Baddiel share their childhood memories of flicking fun
In the years BC (Before Computers) of the 1970s and '80s, the football game Subbuteo was played by more than 30 million people. Digital dexterity was the order of the day even then; one world champion, Andrea Piccaluga, had his flicking finger insured for £150,000.
Caroline Lucas, the leader of the Green Party, will be on "Any Questions" on BBC Radio 4, at 8pm on Friday night. Her fellow guests will be Geoff Hoon, Vincent Cable, and David Willetts.
Colleges will get greater freedom to choose what they teach if the Conservatives get back into government, they were promised today. The government should give further education the sort of leeway universities get, and trust it to respond to local needs, said David Willetts, shadow secretary for skills. He promised college principals an end to the frequent policy switches that Labour had forced...
ExclusiveBarkley’s blade CD cover rowBy ALEX WEST and DAVE WILLETTS ANTI-knife campaigners have branded a sick image on the front of pop duo GNARLS BARKLEY’s new single “utterly irresponsible”. The Who’s Gonna Save My Soul CD cover shows a bloodstained knife. It is taken from a disturbing video for the track by the US band – CEE-LO GREEN and DANGER MOUSE – where a man stabs himself. The Association...
The government's approach to university expansion is like "trying to drive a car with the accelerator and brake both pressed to the floor", the Tory universities secretary will say today. The shadow universities secretary, David Willetts, will argue that is "absurd" to set a target of 50% of the population participating in higher education by 2010 while "prohibiting universities from meeting...
Google News Alert for: Compiled Teenage Flicks, compiled by Paul Willetts Independent - London,England,UK By Simon Redfern In the years BC (Before Computers) of the 1970s and '80s, the football game Subbuteo was played by more than 30 million people. ... See all stories on this topic Compiled from news dispatches Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA The convicted felon suspected in the killings of the...
By DAVID WILLETTS Published: TodayTHE childminder of tortured Baby P revealed yesterday that she repeatedly warned Social Services about his pitiful condition — but they failed to act. Gazing at the tragic 17-month-old’s teddy — by grim irony bearing the words “I love you” — Ann Walker said: “He was dying. I told them about his state. I said things were not right. But nothing was done.” The...
COLCHESTER councillors should “hang their heads in shame” at the neglect of the town's Roman heritage, it has been claimed. The accusation comes from Dennis Willetts, himself a borough councillor, who is furious about what he says is the continued lack of funds being spent on the “exceptional” historic sites. He has now demanded to know why Colchester Borough Council does not have a financial...
More he, vicar?By DAVID WILLETTS A FEMALE vicar who went on swingers’ holidays and rolled up drunk to services was yesterday banned from the clergy for 12 years. Church bosses branded the behaviour of Teresa Davies “scandalous”. The motorbike-riding mum, 37, boasted of her sordid exploits to two colleagues after a boozy Christmas lunch. The team vicar at Daventry Ministry, Northants, said she...
This is a picture from Paul Willetts's new book Teenage Flicks: Memories of the Sub-Beautiful Game, a collection of soccer anecdotes interspersed with photographs of Subbuteo, the infinitely customizable soccer board game popular in the mid-to-late 20th century. The Guardian has a terrific gallery of pictures from the book up today. From their introduction: If you [...] No related posts.
The school, established in 1895, is now in administration. Owner Margaret Willetts, who ran the school for 15 years, said: "My own son came here and I liked it so much I bought it. Since then it has been my life, but because of a lack of pupil numbers, it have been left with no option but to close."
... at the neglect of the town’s Roman heritage, it has been claimed. The accusation comes from Dennis Willetts, himself a borough councillor, who is furious about what he says is the continued lack of funds being spent on the “exceptional” historic sites. He has now demanded to know why Colchester Borough Council does not have a financial plan for preserving its Roman heritage which includes...
