Teaching unions, educationists, religious bodies and humanists have issued a joint call to the government to end compulsory worship in schools.

Media coverage of recent student protests in London has consistently presented the violence of a very small minority as worse than the action of of the Coalition Government, and has tried to tar all who entered the courtyards and buildings of Millbank Tower with the same brush. Tim Saunders and other Christians opposed to the cuts and supportive of non-violent action examine the events from a different perspective.

Anti-cuts campaigns are threatening to oust Liberal Democrat MPs over their broken election promises and backing for public spending cuts that hit the poorest.

The recently established Network for Ecumenical Learning in Central and Eastern Europe held its first consultation in Prague last week.