Britain's involvement in the slave trade is to be studied by all secondary pupils in England from this September. World War I, WWII and the Holocaust are already compulsory - but figures like Churchill and Hitler will no longer be mentioned on the curriculum by name while Wilberforce and Equiano will be. Nick wanted to know why this part our history was so important in the modern curriculum.
Motorists are being warned that they could be caught speeding by a police helicopter armed with a radar detection device. More that 20 signs are being put up in Essex telling drivers that police are watching from the sky.
Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer and Linda Evangelista: the same faces who put modelling on the map more than 20 years ago. The veteran supermodels are back to help companies fight the credit crunch as they seek value for money. Scott Wilson from the Essex Accident Reduction Board argued that saving even one life was worth the expense.
When is it too young to learn about the facts of Life. A group of MPs want the government to support plans for sex-ed for pupils as young as four years. They believe it will help reduce the teenage pregnancy levels in the UK.