School report cards could bring a better and fairer way of measuring school performance, although it is interesting to note that there are currently no proposals for report cards in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - where league tables are no loner published.

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Mr Lavery's defence solicitor argued his client was "a trainspotter, a loner, an anorak, a nerd with no friends" and if he was put beside an airport "he would take pictures of planes".

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The man was no glad-hander but rather a hard-working, hard-drinking loner who worked himself into an early grave.

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