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Prince Charles's buildings charity investigated by watchdog

14.09.09
Prince Charles faced further embarrassment after it emerges that his architecture foundation is being investigated by charity regulators... more

Private schools consider legal bid to preserve charity status

11.08.09
Legal challenge could be mounted by independent schools to preserve their charitable status and tax breaks worth £100 million a year... more

It’s right that we know who killed Baby Peter

11.08.09
We can, at last, put a name to the child known for months as Baby P. His name is Peter Connelly ... more

Learn from private schools, don't penalise them

15.07.09
Taxpayers may be wondering why Britain's 2,500 independent schools deserve a tax break worth £100 million each year... more

School fees will rise to pay for poor, say head

14.07.09
Middle-class parents will be forced to pay higher private school fees to subsidise places for poor children after a landmark ruling, headteachers warned... more

Better leadership needed at the BBC

14.07.09
The Culture Secretary, Ben Bradshaw, has attacked BBC chiefs for their refusal to support the sharing of some of the licence fee with other providers of regional news. He is quite right to do so... more

Private schools: We take more poor children

02.06.09
Private schools take in twice as many pupils from deprived backgrounds as top grammars and comprehensives, it was claimed... more

Tourist boom sparks revolt at Karl Marx’s resting place

01.05.09
The group which runs London’s best-known graveyard is being investigated by the charity watchdog after claims it is discouraging visitors... more

Royal charity’s lunch broke law

16.04.09
The Prince’s Trust breached charity law with a fundraising lunch with Baroness Thatcher, the Charity Commission ruled... more

Brown urged to stop youth centre closing

26.03.09
Gordon Brown is being called on to save a scheme that helps young people on one of London's most deprived estates... more

Half of charities failing to beat the downturn

17.03.09
Charities have warned they will have to cut back services with more than half already struggling because of the recession ... more

Mayor gives £30,000 of taxpayers' money to Muslim group led by 'extremist'

12.03.09
Mayor Boris Johnson has given at least £30,000 of taxpayers' money to an organisation co-controlled by an Islamist "extremist"... more

Fee-paying schools will close, warns Eton head

27.01.09
The recession will force some private schools to close as growing numbers of parents struggle to pay fees, the headmaster of Eton warned... more

Top Tory will now keep £14 million divorce windfall meant for charity

19.12.08
Tory grandee Sir Paul Judge can keep a £14 million windfall originally earmarked for charity, the Appeal Court ruled... more

Private school fees may rise to help fund poorer pupils

17.12.08
Middle-class parents could face sharply rising private school fees to subsidise places for poorer children under changes in the law... more

Private school fees could rise to help poorer pupils

17.12.08
Middle-class parents could face sharply rising private school fees to subsidise places for poorer children under new laws... more

Roedean head slams Brown for 'hostility' to fee-paying

08.09.08
The head of a leading independent school today attacked Gordon Brown's "hostility" to private education... more

Brown links 'compromised think-tank's neutrality'

18.07.08
A think-tank which staged at least 42 events at 11 Downing Street while Gordon Brown was Chancellor has been rapped for compromising its independence... more

Planners reject 'superchurch' in Rainham

15.02.08
Plans for an £80 million "superchurch", which could hold five times as many worshippers as Westminster Abbey, have been rejected... more

Tate accused again of buying works by its trustee painters

15.02.08
The Tate is facing accusations of boosting the careers of its trustees after buying paintings by members of its board... more

Tate boss is art's power player

13.10.06
A newly-published list makes Tate director Nicholas Serota the most powerful Brit in the art world, beating both Charles Saatchi and Damien Hirst.... more

Tate pays £400,000 for a hatstand

19.09.06
At £400,857 it is probably one of the world's most expensive hatstands - and one of the most useless - but the Tate Modern deemed it worthy of the asking price.... more

Modern art is pants

22.08.06
They have memorably dismissed the BritArt establishment as "pants". Now the Stuckists - the collective of figurative painters opposed to conceptual art - have become major players themselves with a new exhibition in the West End.... more

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