A teacher who declared the education system is "broken" at the Conservative Party conference will return to work next week.
Katharine Birbalsingh was told to "work from home" on Thursday and Friday while bosses at her school in south London reviewed the situation.
The French and deputy head teacher at St Michael and All Angels Church of England Academy was reportedly "devastated" at being told to stay away.
Speaking at the conference before Education Secretary Michael Gove on Tuesday, Miss Birbalsingh told delegates standards have been "so dumbed down that even the teachers know it" and that schools are bound by too many targets that prevent them from teaching properly.
The system is broken "as it keeps poor children poor", she said.
In a statement, the Diocese of Southwark confirmed the teacher will be allowed to return to the classroom next week, saying: "Her speech at the Conservative Party conference used pictures of children from our school and made reference to them by name. We are concerned by this and in particular by the way in which the pictures have been used.
"Teachers will always have opinions about the ways in which schools should be run. Some teachers may agree with some of the points made by Ms Birbalsingh and some may disagree."
It added: "Our concern is that the position of the Academy should not be misrepresented. Generalisations about teachers and schools can be seen as insulting to many teachers who have worked hard to make a difference to the lives of the young people in their care. We and all schools have high aspirations for our young people whatever their backgrounds.
"Miss Birbalsingh was asked to work at home on Thursday and Friday and will return to work next week."
It is understood that Miss Birbalsingh, an Oxford graduate, asked her headteacher's permission to speak at the conference.
A teacher who declared the education system is "broken" at the Conservative Party conference will return to work next week.
Katharine Birbalsingh was told to "work from home" on Thursday and Friday while bosses at her school in south London reviewed the situation.
The French and deputy head teacher at St Michael and All Angels Church of England Academy was reportedly "devastated" at being told to stay away.
Speaking at the conference before Education Secretary Michael Gove on Tuesday, Miss Birbalsingh told delegates standards have been "so dumbed down that even the teachers know it" and that schools are bound by too many targets that prevent them from teaching properly.
The system is broken "as it keeps poor children poor", she said.
In a statement, the Diocese of Southwark confirmed the teacher will be allowed to return to the classroom next week, saying: "Her speech at the Conservative Party conference used pictures of children from our school and made reference to them by name. We are concerned by this and in particular by the way in which the pictures have been used.
"Teachers will always have opinions about the ways in which schools should be run. Some teachers may agree with some of the points made by Ms Birbalsingh and some may disagree."
It added: "Our concern is that the position of the Academy should not be misrepresented. Generalisations about teachers and schools can be seen as insulting to many teachers who have worked hard to make a difference to the lives of the young people in their care. We and all schools have high aspirations for our young people whatever their backgrounds.
"Miss Birbalsingh was asked to work at home on Thursday and Friday and will return to work next week."
It is understood that Miss Birbalsingh, an Oxford graduate, asked her headteacher's permission to speak at the conference.
Two men have been charged with the murders of two men found dead at a flat.
The bodies of James Atkinson and Neil Gilmore were discovered when police were called to Mr Gilmore's ground-floor flat in Waddington Avenue in Burnley on Tuesday afternoon.
Kenneth Howson, 25, from Williams Road, Burnley, and Daniel Waddington, 22, from Pine Street, Burnley, have been charged with murder, Lancashire Police said.
A third man, Lee Howson, 18, also from Williams Road, has been charged with perverting the course of justice.
All three men have been remanded in custody to appear before Burnley Magistrates' Court on Saturday morning.
A 23-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man have been released without charge.
Disabled people will be "pushed even further backwards" in society as they are hit with more than £9 billion in welfare cuts over the next five years, a leading think tank has warned.
The Government's proposed benefit reforms will see 3.5 million disabled people lose about £9.2 billion of critical support by 2015, according to a report from Demos.
Ministers' plans to move disabled people on to Job Seekers Allowance will account for half these losses, it said.
The report, titled Destination Unknown, argued that planned welfare reforms would result in more disabled people being trapped in long-term unemployment - ultimately costing the taxpayer far more than at present.
Demos warned that by 2015, families with disabled children would lose more than £3,000 each, and disabled adults whose partner is a full-time carer would also lose around £3,000.
Former Labour minister Kitty Ussher, director of Demos, said: "There are good ways to reform welfare, but this is not one of them. The emerging evidence from recent years is that the only way to get those furthest from the labour market back into work is through individual client-led support.
"Cutting the welfare bill is attractive to Government in the current climate, but without better support for individuals it threatens to just exclude people further, rather than transforming their lives for the better."
Demos said 170,830 families in which both parents cared for a disabled child would lose a total of £520 million by 2015. Some 516,450 disabled people whose partner is a full-time carer would lose £1.3 billion, and 98,170 single disabled people would lose £127 million.
Employment Minister Chris Grayling said: "We know that many of the people trapped on incapacity benefits could and do want to work, but the current system doesn't allow them to. That's why we'll be reassessing everyone claiming incapacity benefits, starting in Burnley and Aberdeen on Monday and the rest of the country from spring next year.
"The new Work Programme, which will come on stream next year, will ensure that everyone who can work will get the help and support they need. Those found too sick or disabled to work won't be expected to, and will continue to receive the help and support they need."
The timetable for implementing reforms of the NHS is "ambitious" but not unachievable, the Health Secretary will say.
Andrew Lansley has come under fire over the speed of his proposals, which will see GPs take control of the NHS budget from 2013 and NHS trusts, which manage the cash at the moment, will be abolished.
Mr Lansley will seek to reassure doctors attending a Royal College of GPs (RCGP) conference in Harrogate, promising full support for their new role.
He will accuse the previous Labour government of having "dithered and delayed in its approach to NHS reform".
Labour's approach "fell apart entirely" in the last three years due to a lack of clarity about what ministers were trying to achieve, he is expected to say.
"As a Government, we will not repeat these mistakes. That is why I have been so clear about setting out our ambitions for the NHS, the reforms we will make to achieve these ambitions, and by when we will make the reforms.
"It is true that the timetable is ambitious, but it is not a timetable which is unachievable.
"With two-and-a-half years with which to learn from pathfinder commissioning consortia and establish shadow arrangements, there is ample time for practices that do not yet feel ready, to secure capability collectively.
"These reforms give GPs the overall responsibility for the design of services, which meet their patients' needs, and facilitate a quick response when failures in those services arise."
He will tell GPs he does not intend to burden them with paperwork or involve them in the "minutiae of administration". Support will be available from health trusts, local authorities or "external partners".
The Government may yet scale back its planned public spending cuts if economic conditions worsen, a Cabinet minister has suggested.
Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, said the coalition might have to "tack about" if circumstances altered before the Budget next spring.
There are fears among some that Britain is still susceptible to a double-dip recession and that the £83 billion cuts programme to be outlined in the comprehensive spending review on October 20 could make matters worse.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne used their keynote speeches to the Conservative Party conference this week to insist that there was no responsible alternative to their plans, and Whitehall departments are braced for cuts averaging 25% over the next four years.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Huhne said Mr Osborne's emergency budget heralding a massive shift in fiscal policy from the former Labour government was "absolutely right", but he also claimed that the figures could be amended if global conditions deteriorated, saying he was not "lashed to the mast with a particular set of numbers".
"I've never known one Treasury Red Book to be exactly like the last one. There is always a change," he said. "It is a bit like setting sail. If the wind changes, you have to tack about to get to (your destination).
"Global growth could be either higher or lower. We just don't know, and it's not sensible, outside the Budget period, for governments to make speculations about what is going to happen.
"The right time to look at that Budget judgment is when we come up to the Budget in the spring. The key thing then is to look at things in the round and remember the overall objective is to stabilise and begin to reduce the public debt to GDP ratio."
A double-dip recession was "not impossible" although he did not consider it "likely", he added.
Mr Huhne also gave voice to Lib Dem concern about the Government's plan to introduce a tax break for married couples. The idea, contained within the coalition agreement but with provision for Lib Dem MPs to abstain, was resurrected by Mr Cameron this week as he came under fire for abolishing child benefit for higher earners.
High-earning graduates are to be charged more for their student loans than those who are less successful, it has been reported.
Interest rates on student loans would be varied so that those who get the most financial benefit contribute the most towards their education.
The move has apparently been agreed by ministers from both sides of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition after months of negotiations over the future of student finance.
The plans, reported by The Times and The Daily Telegraph, emerged ahead of Lord Browne of Madingley's long-awaited review of university funding.
One of his recommendations is likely to involve increasing the tuition fees cap, possibly to £7,000 a year.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) - which is responsible for higher education - declined to comment on the Government's plans ahead of Lord Browne's report, which is expected to be published on Tuesday.
But it was reported that the detailed changes to student loans were thrashed out this week by ministers including David Cameron, George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable.
The interest rate will not only be made variable according to income but raised across the board, it was claimed. Lower-earning graduates could pay back less than the costs they have incurred.
The proposals set the stage for the biggest test yet of Lib Dem MPs' support for the coalition. During the general election, the Lib Dems promised to scrap tuition fees altogether and leader Mr Clegg, now the Deputy Prime Minister, warned in April that it would be "a disaster" if fees were increased to £7,000.
A BIS spokesman said: "Lord Browne is currently undertaking an independent review of university funding and student finance. We will judge his proposals against the need to take into account the impact on student debt, ensure a properly funded university sector, improve the quality of teaching, advance scholarship, increase social mobility and attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds."
The largest council in the country will no longer provide housing to asylum seekers, saying it needs to put local people first.
Birmingham City Council said it would not be extending its five-year contract with the UK Border Agency next June.
The council currently provides up to 190 homes for asylum seekers. It said it needed to free up housing for homeless people living in the city.
Councillor John Lines, in charge of housing at the local authority, said: "Over the last year, we have seen a sharp increase in the number of homeless people in Birmingham and we must help the citizens of this city first and foremost.
"With a long waiting list for homes, we really need all our properties for our people in these difficult economic times.
"Birmingham will continue to meet our obligation to help the Government and we will work with the UKBA to help them find alternative services, possibly in the private sector, so that they can meet their objectives following the end of our contract with them."
Other councils in the West Midlands, including Dudley, Wolverhampton and Coventry, also provide accommodation for asylum seekers in the region.
The local authority will continue to provide housing advice and assistance to asylum seekers.
A man is to appear in court charged with the murder of a young mother found stabbed to death at her home.
Sara West, 21, was found dead in Aspley Lane, Aspley, Nottingham, at about 1.15pm on Wednesday.
It has just emerged Miss West, who died of stab wounds, was mother to a son just nine weeks old.
Nottinghamshire Police charged James Sullivan, 22, of Maltby Close, Aspley, with Miss West's murder on Friday night and he will appear at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.
Miss West's father Roger West paid tribute to his daughter as being like "summer warmth on a cold day".
Mr West, from Nottingham, said: "The most important thing in the world to Sara was her family. If she loved someone, she would do absolutely anything for that person."
He said the 21-year-old, who has two sisters, was a proud mother to son Joshua, who is nearly nine weeks old.
"She lost a baby last year, and she was devastated," he said.
"When Joshua came along her world completely changed - all of a sudden, her dreams had come true and she was so proud and happy.
"She spoke about going to college to become a midwife - she had the rest of her life ahead of her. It's hard to cope and it does not seem real right now. She was like summer warmth on a cold day - she was a girl who would make any dad proud."
Two men are to appear in court charged with the murder of two men found dead at a flat.
The bodies of James Atkinson and Neil Gilmore were discovered when police were called to Mr Gilmore's ground-floor flat in Waddington Avenue, Burnley, on Tuesday afternoon.
Kenneth Howson, 25, from Williams Road, Burnley, and Daniel Waddington, 22, from Pine Street, Burnley, were charged with murder on Friday night, Lancashire Police said.
A third man, Lee Howson, 18, also from Williams Road, was charged with perverting the course of justice.
All three men were remanded in custody to appear before Burnley Magistrates' Court this morning.
A 23-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man were both released without charge.
Hungary's premier says the northern wall of a red sludge reservoir which burst and flooded several towns with toxic waste is showing ever-larger cracks and is "very likely" to collapse.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban described the situation as "dramatic" and said the town of Kolontar, which sits next to the reservoir and was badly damaged in Monday's flood, was evacuated early on Saturday out of precaution because engineers have determined that the developing cracks could cause a whole side of the enormous container to collapse.
The town has a population of about 800.
In neighbouring Devecser, with a population of 5,300 and next after Kolontar in the likely path of a new sludge deluge, police asked residents to put their most essential belongings into a single bag and prepare for possible evacuation.
At least seven people died and more than 120 were injured when a corner of the metals plant reservoir gave way and up to 700,000 cubic meters (184 million gallons) of toxic waste flooded several towns in western Hungary.
Sixty-six agonising days after their gold and copper mine collapsed above them, 33 miners are anxiously awaiting a way out as a drill carved into the last layers of rock above their underground purgatory.
Outside the mine, relatives staying in the tents and motor homes known as "Camp Hope" spent a restless night waiting to hear the siren blast that would announce the drill's success.
The "Plan B" drill was poised to win a three-way race against two other drills to carve a hole wide enough for an escape capsule to pull the miners out one by one.
Officials said that the "Plan B" drill was nearing the miners at a point 2,047 feet below the surface.
Mining Minister Laurence Golborne estimated the drill would break through at some point on Saturday.
Hundreds of children may have been wrongly told they are overweight because of a "software error", the NHS Information Centre has said.
The fault is thought to have affected a maximum of 2,500 children whose height and weight was recorded last month as part of the National Child Measurement Programme.
But the NHS Information Centre said the likelihood is far fewer letters will have already been sent out as it apologised to all parents who have been sent the wrong information about their child.
Chief executive Tim Straughan said: "Information about their child's weight is a sensitive and important matter for parents and we would like to apologise for any unnecessary concern this error may have caused.
"We alerted NHS staff responsible for carrying out the measurement programme locally as soon as the problem came to light and are working with them to ensure that families affected by these letters are contacted personally. We are fixing the software fault as quickly as possible."
The inaccurate letters were sent to parents of children in reception and Year 6.
While they include the correct information about children's height, weight and Body Mass Index (BMI), the letters assign children to the wrong BMI category.
As a result some children of a healthy weight have been classed as overweight and some who are overweight have been described as very overweight.
Local measurement programme administrators at primary care trusts have been asked to tell the parents affected their child's correct results as soon as possible.
The National Child Measurement Programme measures around one million children a year.
The winning ticket of a £113 million EuroMillions jackpot was bought in Britain, breaking the record for the country's largest ever lottery win, Camelot has confirmed.
Nobody has yet claimed the prize after matching the winning numbers 9, 30, 35, 39, 46, with lucky stars 6 and 8.
Until Friday's draw, the largest lottery winner in the UK was an anonymous player who scooped £84.4million on the EuroMillions draw in May.
It is not known whether the latest overnight millionaire was an individual or a syndicate. Camelot has not said where they come from in the UK.
A spokeswoman said: "This is fantastic news - we're absolutely delighted to have such a massive UK win.
"This is the biggest lottery jackpot prize ever paid out to an individual in this country. We have plenty of champagne on ice and are looking forward to welcoming the lucky ticket holder to the National Lottery millionaires' club."
Nigel Page and Justine Laycock, from Barnsley, Gloucestershire, previously broke the record in February after winning £56 million on EuroMillions.
After the win, Mr Page, 43, and 41-year-old Miss Laycock, moved in to a £4 million environmentally-friendly mansion - leaving their old £400,000 home to their cleaner Denise Kelso.
The latest winner has defied odds of 76,275,360 to one to guess all seven numbers correctly.
They will now be able to enjoy the life of a rock star or Hollywood actor, with wealth to eclipse the likes of Bee Gees Barry and Robin Gibb, Rod Stewart and David Bowie.
The son of Rachel Nickell will not receive any compensation from police despite failings that could have prevented her murder, it has emerged.
Scotland Yard said it had been decided after "careful and detailed consideration" not to make a payment to Alex Hanscombe, who as a toddler witnessed the slaying of his mother.
It comes despite the Metropolitan Police publicly acknowledging mistakes that saw her killer Robert Napper free to roam the streets, despite a tip off that he was a rapist.
Mr Hanscombe was just two-years old when Napper stabbed his mother 49 times during a brutal sex attack.
Napper, a deluded killer and serial rapist, could have been caught as far back as 1989, when his mother phoned police to tell them her son had confessed to a sex attack.
But police could not trace the crime and did not interview him or collect any DNA.
He went on to commit at least four more rapes before killing Miss Nickell on Wimbledon Common in July 1992.
It was only after he savagely killed and mutilated another young mother and her daughter that he was finally arrested.
He was convicted of the murders of Samantha Bissett and four-year-old Jasmine in 1994 and sent to Broadmoor.
But it was not until 2004 that a DNA link between Napper and the body of Rachel Nickell was identified.
Simon Cowell has thrown his weight behind the campaign to save snubbed X Factor star Gamu Nhengu from deportation to Zimbabwe, it has been revealed.
The music mogul's lawyers have been drafted in to help the 18-year-old singer in her battle to stay in the UK.
The prospect of being sent back to her homeland has been hanging over the teenager after her mother's visa application was turned down.
Cowell said: "We are helping Gamu and her family as much as possible and have lawyers working with her lawyers, not because we have to - but because I really feel for their situation, and that's outside of the show."
Multi-millionaire Cowell, 51, maintained bosses at the ITV1 show were not aware of Nhengu's visa situation while she was on the programme.
"We were unaware there would be any problem with her visa until this week," he said.
The teenager's mother Nokuthula Ngazana was permitted to stay in the UK while she studied at university, with Nhengu permitted to remain in the country as her dependant.
But Ms Ngazana's application to remain in the country was turned down, with the UK Border Agency saying it did not "meet all of the conditions for approval".
Frances Farrell, the lawyer representing Nhengu and her family, has said she would appeal to an immigration tribunal against plans to deport them.
Cowell's lawyers are expected to advise on the appeal to a Glasgow tribunal and it is understood an X Factor producer has been assigned to look after the family.
A British aid worker being held hostage in Afghanistan has been killed by captors during an attempt to rescue her, Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
Linda Norgrove, 36, originally from Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands, was kidnapped by militants in Kunar province on September 26, alongside three Afghan nationals.
A decision was made on Friday to send troops in to free her "given the danger she was in", Mr Hague said in a statement.
It is thought that no British forces were involved in the rescue attempt.
A former United Nations employee, Ms Norgrove was working for the firm Development Alternatives Inc at the time of her kidnap.
Based in Jalalabad, she supervised reconstruction programmes in the eastern region of Afghanistan funded by the US government.
She was abducted by insurgents as she travelled in a convoy of two vehicles in Kunar province.
Local police chased the kidnappers but lost them after a brief firefight.
The three Afghan nationals were released last week, but Ms Norgrove continued to be held amid growing concern for her life.
It is understood that seven insurgents were killed in the failed attempt to rescue Ms Norgrove.
Violence broke out and missiles were thrown at police as rival protesters gathered in Leicester for rival demonstrations.
The English Defence League (EDL) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF) were holding protests in Leicester, prompting the city's largest policing operation in 25 years.
Around 1,000 members from each group were expected to descend on the city, police said, although it was not known exactly how many had turned up.
A smoke bomb was thrown from the EDL protesters into police and crowds of press.
Leicestershire Police said: "Officers are dealing with minor disorder among the EDL supporters on Humberstone Gate East. So far a number of protesters have been detained for possible public order offences."
Earlier this week, Home Secretary Theresa May authorised a blanket ban on marches in Leicester, but the groups were still permitted to hold static demonstrations in Humberstone Gate East in the city from 2pm to 3.30pm.
The area was shut down by police, with rival groups placed either side of metal barriers.
Police were using Section 14 of the Public Order Act which meant officers could take action against anyone who protests outside that place and time. They were also using stop and search powers, and were supported by the dog unit, mounted unit and East Midlands Air Support Unit.
At one point a policeman was put into a buggy-style ambulance on a stretcher. Some EDL protesters were also treated by police medics, but it is unclear what their injuries were.
A spokeswoman said: "Crowds remain and continue to protest. Four people have been arrested. One officer has been taken to hospital with a leg injury."
