UK Press

Sunday Mail



Gordon Brown's wife Sarah went to great lengths to kill old rumours that the Chancellor is gay, according to a new book.



http://education.independent.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=605994



Homophobic bullying in British schools is forcing thousands of gay pupils to leave early, prompting calls for the introduction of sexual orientation lessons to the curriculum.



http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1382033,00.html



A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has told his lawyer he was tortured using the 'strappado', a technique common in Latin American dictatorships in which a prisoner is left suspended from a bar with handcuffs until they cut deeply into his wrists.

The reason, the prisoner says, was that he was caught reciting the Koran at a time when talking was banned.