The great irony about the national curriculum tests (or SATs as parents have come to call them) is that one of the main reasons for their introduction was not so much to test children but to test schools and teachers.

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Other proposals are understood to include the introduction of civilian jailers in police stations who would be allowed to breath-test drink drivers and take fingerprints and DNA samples from suspects.

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Mrs Jephson is campaigning for the introduction of a proficiency test for mobility scooter users, to make them for disabled users only, and to have identification on scooters.

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