Tony Blair has backed a ban on wearing hooded sweatshirt tops and baseball caps in public.Britain’s largest shopping centre, Bluewater, has banned shoppers from wearing the look, in an attempt to

A high court judge demolished a key plank of the government's crusade against yob culture yesterday by ruling it illegal for children to be forcibly removed from curfew zones.

IoS investigation: Critics voice serious doubts over Christian academies run by millionaire car dealer and backed by PM

An increasing number of children are being criminalised by the justice system, it was claimed yesterday, as new figures showed that more than 1,000 youngsters have been jailed for an average of six

A CONTROVERSIAL device that produces an annoying high-pitched noise to disperse youths has won the backing of the Home Secretary.

ALMOST all benefit claimants will be forced either to look for a job or prepare for work if they want to continue to receive state handouts, under a shake-up of the welfare state. Single mothers of

Single teenage mothers are "piling up problems" in the country's inner city areas, Tony Blair said yesterday as he spoke to faith groups about the importance of religion in politics.

The muted cheers as Harriet Harman sat down at the end of her big speech said it all - the Social Security Secretary was deemed to have failed.

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