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Today's Top News
MORE than 16,000 children will find out this week which secondary school they will be going to in September.
Kent County Council, which is responsible for administering secondary school admissions, has today sent out 16,300 letters telling parents the outcome of their applications on what has become known as the National Offer Day.
According to the council, there has been a small increase in the numbers missing out on their first preference school this year.
KCC says 70 per cent have been allocated their first preference school compared with 74 per cent last year, although there has been an increase in the number of pupils seeking places.
That means that of the 16,236 expecting news of their applications, more than 4,800 will not at this stage have received the school they most wanted.
No, Kosovo is not on the St. Lawrence
Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence on Feb. 17 has provoked a spate of articles and comments relating it to Canada in particular, to a hypothetical act of that kind by Quebec. The knee-jerk reaction of the Parti Qu�b�cois, the Bloc Qu�b�cois and their supporters is that any such declaration by any entity anywhere, followed by some countries' recognition, is a precedent for an enacting of unilateral secession by a vote of the National Assembly of Quebec. That is nonsense unsupported by international law. Daniel Turp, the PQ's international relations critic, said in a CBC-TV interview: "A people decides to become a country and other countries recognize that fact. And in this case what is special is that Serbia is against [the] independence of one of its component parts, and the United States, France [and] other countries ignore this objection.
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