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Quotes of the week

"If I had not applied for this Asbo when I did, then I would probably be dead quite soon" - Tania Hall, 20, who asked to be given an antisocial behaviour order to stop her shoplifting, which was feeding her addiction to heroin and crack cocaine

- "We need a certain amount of knowledge and it ought to be tested. But there are skills which cannot be tested in a one-and-a-half-hour paper" - Jonathan Milton, head teacher, Westminster Abbey Choir School on the use of examinations in schools

- "We live in a country where in many places Frank Gallagher-style parenting has become the norm and not the exception" - Conservative MP Chris Grayling, the shadow work and pensions secretary, warns of parenting based on the approach of the main character in Channel 4's Shameless series.

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