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The National Union of Teachers' annual conference takes place this weekend, just five weeks ahead of the general election. Education has been a key issue in previous elections, but where is it now? It didn't receive much air time in Thursday night's leaders' debate and is often overshadowed by immigration and the NHS. Why isn鈥檛 education a more prominent issue in the campaign? Christine Blower is General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers. Toby Young is Associate Editor of The Spectator and co-founder of the West London Free School in Hammersmith.

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John Goodman is one of those actors who's never made it into the top rank of the more glamorous Hollywood stars. You've probably seen him in Roseanne and cult films like The Big Lebowski and Barton Fink. He's doing what so many American film stars have done and coming to the British stage. He's making his West End debut this month in a revival of David Mamet's 'American Buffalo'. The 麻豆约拍鈥檚 arts correspondent David Sillito met him during rehearsals.

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French MPs have approved a law to ban the use of fashion models considered excessively thin. The new rules will require models to have a Body Mass Index (BMI) above a certain level. Modelling agents that break the rules face fines and six months in jail. The bill won a majority of votes in the lower house on Friday and must now go to the Senate. Anne-Elisabeth Moutet is the former editor of a fashion trade newspaper in Paris.

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Shared parental leave in England comes into effect this weekend, allowing parents to share 50 weeks of leave and 27 weeks of pay after the initial fortnight after a birth or an adoption. Bibi Hilton is managing director of PR company Golin. Samantha Mangwana is an employment lawyer with Slater and Gordon.

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House building is on the election agenda this weekend. Labour says they'll encourage banks and building societies to invest some of the money they're holding in ISA funds to build more houses. We've been talking to builders, not the big developers but the sort of tradesmen who buy their stuff at Screwfix stores. Today reporter Zoe Conway went to one of them in the marginal seat of Loughborough.

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Nicola Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland and SNP leader, is the focus of much of the political chatter after Thursday鈥檚 seven leader debate, although she's not a candidate for Westminster and her party is only appealing for votes in the election to less than 10% of the population of the UK. She found herself in the midst of a diplomatic furore last night, however, when the Daily Telegraph published an account of what it says is a Whitehall memo purporting to record a conversation between her and the French ambassador to the UK in which the Telegraph say that she said she would prefer David Cameron in Downing St because Ed Miliband didn't seem prime ministerial. Last night she denied the report. Glenn Campbell is the 麻豆约拍鈥檚 Scotland political correspondent.

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A number of people are reported to have been arrested in connection with the massacre at a university in Kenya on Thursday. In the wake of the attack by Al-Shabaab gunmen, police in neighbouring Uganda say they've received information that a similar attack is being planned there. In Garissa itself people have accused the police of failing to boost security, despite credible intelligence that the university might be targeted. Police say 148 people were killed at Garissa University College on Thursday in the worst attack on Kenyan soil since the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi. Simiyu Werunga is Director of the African Centre for Security and Strategic Studies in Nairobi.

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Thunderbirds returns tonight, 50 years after the first series of the children鈥檚 programme was first broadcast. The new series is called 鈥淭hunderbirds Are Go鈥�: In it, the puppets which made Gerry Anderson's original 鈥榮upermarionation鈥� show famous have been replaced with computer animated figures. Sylvia Anderson, Gerry Anderson鈥檚 widow, helped in creating the show and was the original voice of Lady Penelope. She also provides the voice of the character Great Aunt Sylvia in the new series.

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New research shows that the public's awareness of autism is increasing. But there's a huge amount about it we don鈥檛 know, partly because it covers such a wide spectrum. Some people who have it can lead independent lives, some need 24 hour support. There is no 'cure' for it.聽 Andrew Edwards suffers from autism and he's written a book, called "I've got a stat for you - my life with Autism" about how autism has affected him. 聽

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We've reached the end of the first full week of the election campaign. It began with the Labour and Conservative parties battling over who had more support from the business community, and culminated with the seven way leaders鈥� debate.聽 Who won that depends on what paper or what poll you read.聽 So where do we stand after week one? Lisa Markwell is Editor of the Independent on Sunday. Victoria Newton is Editor of the Sun on Sunday. Steve Bell is a Political Cartoonist who draws for The Guardian among others.