Children's lives are being impoverished by the government's increasing focus on literacy and numeracy, according to the biggest review of the primary curriculum in 40 years. The head of the inquiry, Robin Alexander, talks to our education editor, Polly Curtis.
Ed Pilkington reports from Antigua, expected to be hit the hardest by the alleged fraud involving the cricket tycoon Sir Allen Stanford.
Columnist Polly Toynbee discusses the recession in the latest and last in our series of atheist thoughts for the day.
Economics correspondent Ashley Seager explains the implications of Britain's soaring national debt.
And Monty Don, president of the Soil Association, tells consumer affairs editor Rebecca Smithers why he's supporting a new scheme to cultivate allotments on National Trust land.
