"You'll certainly have lots of well-heeled French children and we fear the focus won't be on local children" - Polly Woodford, member of the Parental Alliance of Secondary Schools, criticises plans to create a bilingual academy school in Hammersmith, west London, where French expatriate students would pay fees and English pupils would attend for free
"Our explanation is that fat kids are inactive because they are fat and not fat because they are inactive" - Brad Metcalf, researcher at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, which has found that exercise is ineffective in helping overweight children to get slimmer.
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