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Guidance: Heads don’t need parents’ permission to take biometric data
Schools have been given the go-ahead to take fingerprints from children as young as five - without asking their parents first.
Ministers issued guidance allowing heads to collect pupils’ biometric data to use when taking the register, paying for lunch or using the library. [...]

Daily Mail - UK
A crowd of 100 stunned stargazers brought a town centre to a standstill when five mysterious UFOs were spotted hovering in the sky. Drinkers spilled out of pubs, motorists stopped to gawp and camera phones were aimed upwards as the five orbs, in a seeming formation, hovered above Stratford-Upon-Avon for half an [...]

Religion and sex life among passenger details to be passed on to officials
Jamie Doward, home affairs editor - The Observer
Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a [...]