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24/11/2010

Heads react to Gove school shake-up; Derby teen rape gang convicted; Ashes just hours away. With Peter Allen and Aasmah Mir. Text: 85058 (charged at your standard message rate).

The latest news, sport and travel updates with Peter Allen and Aasmah Mir.

Headteachers will get more power over discipline and there's to be a shake up of teacher training, under Michael Gove's plans to reform education in England. Our reporter gets reaction from the front line, at Sydney Russell School in Dagenham.

Also in the news, a gang of men has been convicted of raping and abusing dozens of vulnerable teenage girls in Derby. We have the latest from Leicester Crown Court.

There are arrests in London, as thousands of students stage another day of demonstrations around the country against a planned rise in tuition fees.

And the talking is almost over - final preparations are being made in Brisbane for the Ashes to begin tonight. We hear from Phil Defreitas, and get professional advice about whether we'll suffer any ill effects from staying up all night.

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