Nicola Webster, who taught at the Abbey School, Faversham, Kent, allegedly started a relationship with a Year 12 pupil during a school ski trip. Another member of staff reportedly saw Miss Webster kissing the girl.
Ken Clarke’s Justice Department is considering sending claimants to the Press Complaints Commission for arbitration before they take their case to court.
Tom Campbell, the capital's cultural strategy manager, said he often stole from major retailers as a form of protest against their stranglehold on the High Street.
The newly knighted Sir Mervyn King finds himself at the vortex of the greatest struggle over the direction of interest rates since the Bank of England was given its independence by Gordon Brown in 1997.
The country's largest civil service union today voted to strike - setting up a co-ordinated walkout by one million public sector workers on the same day later this month.