Friday's papers

An education feel to the front pages this morning.

The Guardian reports that a landmark study of primary schools calls for teachers to be freed of targets.The paper adds that

Children's lives are being impoverished by the government's insistence that schools focus on literacy and numeracy at the expense of creative teaching, the biggest review of the primary school curriculum in 40 years finds today.

The Independent also leads with the story,Too much testing and too little learning in primary schools has let down a generation, it says


Education also makes the front of the Telegraph,the paper says that children are being encouraged to imagine they are suicide bombers plotting the July 7 attacks as part of the Government's strategy to combat violent extremism.

Yesterdays governemnt borrowing figures are covered intensly,the Mail devotes its front page to the story £2TRILLION: The terrifying total of our national debt ... that's £33,000 for every man, woman and child in Britain is its headline.

The Guardian adds that

As the prime minister warned in Rome that the world was being hit by an "economic hurricane", his fightback plan at home was complicated when the Office for National Statistics raised the prospect of Britain's national debt rising to 150% of national income from its current 48%.

The Times has an exclusive.It reports that sixteen years after a man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his heavily pregnant wife by hanging, the paper has uncovered evidence that throws his conviction into doubt.

Long-lost notes of police interviews have emerged that suggest that Eddie Gilfoyle was at work when his 32-year-old wife, Paula, died.