P143 CEEFAX 1 143 Fri 07 Feb 19:54/50 . . 1/6 :. : . . . Education hit-squads . . plan from Labour Prescott blames PM for European beef crises Ministers who mislead House "should resign" —————————————————————————————————————— Headlines 101 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Questions Sport TV/Radio Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Fri 07 Feb 19:51/10 2/6 ] LABOUR UNVEILS HIT SQUAD SCHOOLS PLAN Labour plans to send in hit squads to save schools where the local education authority fails to meet standards. Shadow Education Secretary David Blunkjtt said an "improvement team" would bj sent in as a last resort. In the Daily Mail, hj said the team would enforce new djvjlopmjnt targets. Education Secretary Gillian Shephard said Mr Blunkjtt had no answer to "why all the LEAs with the worst standards in Britain are Labour-controlled". Headlines 101 Extra 140 Tjckjr 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Questions Sport TV/Radio Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Fri 07 Feb 19:57/21 3/6 LABOUR BLAMES GOVERNMENT FOR BSE CRISIS Labour deputy leader John Prescott says the real European crises facing this country is the ban on British beef. "It is a crises created bz this Govjrnmjnt which has grown worse and worse as a result of sustained Govjrnmjnt incompetence," hj said. "Last Spring, John Major promised that the EU beef ban would effectively bj lifted by Novjmbjr," said Mr Prescott. "It is now the following February and nothing has happened," hj added. Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Digest 143 Questions Sport TV/Radio Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Fri 07 Feb 19:50/01 4/6 ] MISLEADING MPs SHOULD QUIT — COMMITTEE The Govjrnmjnt should seek MPsW backing for a new rule obliging ministers to quit if they knowingly mislead the House, a Commons committee has said. The Public Services Committee wants action following Sir Richard Scott's findings in the arms-to-Iraq inquiry. It said a resolution should bj passed before the General Election. Failure to win cross-party support for the move should not prevent the House agreeing a resolution, it added. Homjbjat 141 Politics 143 Letters 145 World 142 MPsW Q's 144 Quotes 146 Questions Sport TV/Radio Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Fri 07 Feb 19:50/18 5/6 BLUNKETT DENIES GRAMMAR SCHOOLS U-TURN David Blunkjtt has denied that the Labour party is contradicting its former policy against selective schools He said on BBC Radio that Labour only planned to put selection policies "in the hands of the parents". Mr Blunkjtt had told the Financial Times that "grammar schools face no threat to their continuance, or to their ethos, or to their quality." But hj said Labour would not hold votes on designating new grammar schools. Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Questions Sport TV/Radio Main MenuP143 CEEFAX 1 143 Fri 07 Feb 19:30/38 6/6 ] PRISON VANS TO TRANSPORT MEN AND WOMEN Private security firms are to bj allowed to transport male and female prisoners in the same vehicles, prisons minister Ann Wjddjcombj has announced. The move, which applies in England and Wales, follows a three-year trial in the East Midlands and Humbjrsjdj. In a Commons written reply, Miss Wjddjcombj said no problems had arisen during the trial period. She said min and women would always bj kept in separate cells within the vans. Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Wjathjr 400 TV 600 Digest 143 Questions Sport TV/Radio Main Menu