JUSTICE: A 16-year-old boy who stabbed a teacher to death in a "monumental act of cowardice and evil" has been warned he may never be released from prison.

Mr Justice Coulson told Will Cornick - who stabbed Ann Maguire, 61, seven times at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds in April - that he must serve at least 20 years in custody before being considered for release.

But he warned Cornick, who was 15 at the time of the murder that "it's quite possible that day may never come."

POLITICS: Labour has dipped below 30 per cent in the polls for the first time since Ed Miliband became leader, research by millionnaire Tory donor Michael Ashcroft revealed yesterday.

A study commissioned by Mr Ashcroft puts the party on 29 per cent - a fall of two points since the last survey.

Ukip has dropped two points to 16 per cent while the Conservatives are down one point on 30 per cent.

MEDIA: Channel 4 will to screen a live play set in a polling station just as voting winds up on the night of next year's general election, the channel announced yesterday.

The new production, called The Vote, will be broadcast at the exact time at which it is set, during the last 90 minutes of polling as the play reaches the final night of its West End run.

The team behind the play - set in a fictional polling station in a primary school - has described it as an "unprecedented national television event."