MPs back Bill to end rip-off on school kit
PLANS for a crackdown on rip-off school uniform prices could come into force by September.
A bill put forward by Labour MP Mike Amesbury passed its second reading in the Commons unopposed and now faces closer scrutiny.
One report has put costs at £340 a year for secondary schoolchildren, £255 for primaries.
The new law gives schools a cost guide and may stop them using a solo “monopoly” supplier.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said parents will be “financially reassured”.
And Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner said hard-up families will no longer have to “cut back on essentials” to buy kit.
DEVASTATED Graham misses his evil ex
A MAN who uncovered his girlfriend’s plot to kill her former husband has revealed how she told him about her murderous plans as she lay in his arms after sex.
Graham Wall said Victoria Breeden, 39, wanted Rob Parkes, 40, dead because he had won custody of their daughter.
Graham, 45, said that as he and Breeden lay in bed after making love one night, she had begun to cry. He asked: “Why are you crying, didn’t you enjoy it?”
Breeden replied: “Yes I did, that’s the problem, I’m happy but my [daughter] is not. You must know somebody. You must know somebody who can get rid of him.”
She added: “If you can’t do that, then you are of no use to me.”
Graham dismissed it, thinking she was not serious, but later found evidence that she was, in fact, deadly serious.
He went to the police and this week mother-of-three Breeden was convicted on three counts of soliciting murder.
After the verdicts were read out, Graham left Chelmsford crown court in tears and now says he still loves the woman who could be jailed for life for a crime which he reported.
He told the Mirror: “We had some great times together, I truly loved her and I still miss her now.
“When you genuinely love someone it is very difficult to stop that love irrespective of what they have done. But now I’m wondering if she ever really loved me at all or saw me as an opportunity, a feeble