"Unborn babies targeted in crackdown on criminality" shouted the frontpage headline in The Guardian. But look a bit closer and you'll findthey're simply on about a scheme that will ensure first-time parentsmost likely to struggle get some extra support from midwives and healthvisitors. And it's hardly news - the policy was launched in February andwas widely reported then (Children Now, 14-20 February).
- This is a tale of two papers and two very different protests by youngpeople. The Independent celebrated the fact more than 450 state schoolsare now teaching Latin with an article peppered with snippets of thelanguage.
"It is a rare bit of good news for those who worry about the chronicdecline of classical education," it said, highlighting a demo bysixth-form girls outside the House of Commons about the abolition of theancient history A-level.
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