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Posted on 2:06pm Saturday 11th May 2013 Egyptian security forces have detained a prominent activist on suspicion of inciting an anti-government protest. Ahmed Maher, who leads the April 6 Youth Movement, was arrested at Cairo airport after flying back from the US, officials said. The April 6 Youth Movement was at the forefront of protests that overthrew former leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Mr Mubarak's retrial on charges linked to the revolt is due to begin on Saturday. He is charged alongside a former interior minister and six former security chiefs with complicity in the killing of hundreds of protesters. Mr Mubarak will also face charges of financial corruption alongside his two sons, Alaa and Gamal. The official Mena news agency said Mr Maher's passport was confiscated and he was ordered to be detained for four days. A security official quoted by AP news agency said Mr Maher was accused of "incitement" following a demonstration in March against the country's interior minister. Protesters hurled underwear at the minister's house following a police crackdown on the activist group. Mr Maher is being held on the premises of the prosecutor's office in Cairo's eastern district of Nasr City, the official said. Posted on 2:05pm Saturday 11th May 2013 More than half a million 11-year-olds in England will sit a new grammar, spelling and punctuation test next week. The new test is part of the national tests, known as Sats, taken by children in their final year of primary school. Pupils will be asked to spot adverbs, nouns, adjectives and pronouns. And they will have to spell words that are often misspelt, including "separate", "preferred" and "necessary". The new test is made up of a 45-minute grammar test and a separate 15-minute spelling test of 20 words. The government says pupils will need to show they can punctuate sentences properly, including using colons, apostrophes and "ellipses" (...). Pupils are also tested on maths and mental maths. The results of the tests are used to compile the school league tables. The tests have been shaken up after a review, prompted by complaints about marking and the standards of tests. Teaching unions are opposed to the Sats tests and some boycotted them three years ago, saying that they forced teachers to "teach to the test", marking was unreliable and the results were too "high-stakes" because of the league tables. |
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