ISC Daily News Summary

Daily Telegraph, Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express
More coverage of the news that thousands of schools are expected to close on Thursday in response to the strike about pay by members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT). Around one in five schools are expected either to  close completely or cancel classes because of staff shortages.
Teachers' strike to affect 5,000 schools (Daily Telegraph)
Time to crush the National Union of Teachers (Daily Telegraph)
In brief: strike will disrupt revision; former mayor guilty (Times)
Classroom militants march again (Daily Mail not online)
Schools shutdown as teachers strike (Daily Express not online)

The Guardian's education supplement today includes..

The future of the gifted and talented programme;
The question of ‘institutional racism', 15 years after Stephen Lawrence's murder;
A debate as to whether regligion is a threat to rationality and science;
Guardian Education Supplement

Times
The Times reports on the increasing popularity of the British Library.
Packed tighter than the books, British Library discovered by the reading masses (Times)

Times, Daily Mail
A tree in Mayfair has been valued at £750,000, making it Britain's most valuable tree. The valuation of the 6ft-wide tree, which has graced Berkeley Square since Victorian times, is based on a new system devised by local authority tree officers. It takes into account size, health, historical significance and the number of people living near by to enjoy it.
Put that axe down - this is Britain's most valuable tree (Times)
£750,000 and growing, UK's most valuable tree (Daily Mail not online)