Lesley Bello took the appeal option when her daughter Lydia was refused a place at Milton Road Junior School in Cambridge on the grounds that the family lived a quarter of a mile outside the catchment area, in spite of the fact that Lydia had attended Milton Road Infant School on the same site.
Long the president of Czechoslovakia (and then the Czech Republic) Havel disdained politicians and politics and refused to follow many of his compatriots down theroad of centralization of the state, pushing instead to grow the long-withered civil society left so ransacked by the Soviet occupation.