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Many newspapers and political websites have followed up on my interview with Nick Clegg, where he refused to rule out the prospect of Liberal Democrat ministers abstaining in the crucial vote on tuition fees.
The Deputy Prime Minister told me the Lib Dems were "looking at this as a party".
I caught up with Nick Clegg in Sheffield - one of many English cities which last week saw angry demonstrations against the proposed rise in tuition fees.
It had been generally assumed that Liberal Democrat members of the Coalition government would vote in favour of a rise, in contrast to the party's pre-election pledge to oppose a hike in fees.
But reports suggest that senior Lib Dems are keen to head off a growing rebellion among grassroots party activists who are unhappy with their leader's support for the controversial policy.
So I asked Nick Clegg if that meant he would abstain in the vote, which is due to take place in the Commons before the end of the year.
He said: "We are looking at this as a party. In the coalition agreement we were very, very clear that for Liberal Democrat MPs, if they didn't like the details of the policy, they were able to abstain."
But he added that more Lib Dems were becoming "comfortable" with the policy as they studied the details of the proposals.
"As we looked into it in greater and greater detail, we discovered there are lots and lots of strengths in the policy, which perhaps haven't been focused on enough."
It's emerged that a number of leading Conservative councillors in the East Riding of Yorkshire have been banned from standing for the party at the next local elections.
A total of ten councillors - including the leader Stephen Parnaby - have been told by Tory officials they are no longer on the party's "approved list" for the election in May next year.
Mr Parnaby told me he didn't want to make any comment when I spoke to him on the phone, but said he would be issuing a full statement.
East Riding's deputy leader Jonathan Owen has also been told he's not on the Tories' approved list.
The Conservative-run authority has been under fire over a number of discretionary pension payments made to council staff who have taken early retirement.
Most controversially, a sum of more that £364,000 was approved for the council's director of corporate resources, Sue Lockwood.
The sidelined Tory councillors have 28 days to appeal.
Student Union leaders are appealing for calm ahead of a "day of action" next week in protest at the proposed rise in university tuition fees.
A radical group called the Education Activist Network is planning to target the Liberal Democrats on Wednesday, with reports that activists will use "legitimate force" to occupy Lib Dem party buildings, including the Sheffield Hallam constituency office of the Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg.
Some fear the protests could lead to a repeat of the violent scenes witnessed at the recent Westminster march, which saw the Conservative Party headquarters attacked by a minority of extremists.
South Yorkshire Police say they are reviewing security arrangements at Nick Clegg's constituency office.
The President of Sheffield Hallam University's Students' Union, Caroline Dowd, has condemned talk of violent action. She tells this week's Politics Show in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: "The protest that is meant to be happening in Sheffield is something we are not part of and we don't support. We urge all students not to get involved in it."
The%20National%20Union%20of%20Students wants voters to be given the power of "recall" to sack MPs who break election promises. Ironically this is one policy which Nick Clegg had proposed himself - where ten per cent of the electorate could force a by-election if for whatever reason they were unhappy with their elected representative.
The campaign against higher university fees could now be at a crossroads with some students preferring the power of peaceful protest and others opting for a more radical approach.
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You know you've made it in politics when you are brought to life in cartoon form.
For the past four decades, artist Dave Gaskill has been lampooning our elected representatives for newspapers including The Sun, Daily Mail and Sunday Mail.
Dave - who works from his home near Lincoln - is a regular contributor to BBC Look North and the BBC Politics Show in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
I was delighted to hear that Dave has won a top international award for his work. The Australian Cartoonists' Association has awarded Dave the "Stanley" award for Best Comic Book Artist in recognition of his book "Moll Perkins in America".
Let's hope Dave can 'draw' on a rich tapestry of political pomposity for many years to come.
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The battle to preserve funding for school sports in its current form is being fought on the playing fields of Lincolnshire.
The Department for Education has confirmed that it will no longer provide ring-fenced funding for School Sport Partnerships, as part of a move that will save £162 million pounds annually.
Opposition to the Government's decision is being led by a 17-year-old A-level student from Lincolnshire.
Debbie Foote - who's a Young Ambassador for the South West Lincolnshire SSP - is hoping to get more than a million signatures on a petition, which she'll hand in to the Education Secretary Michael Gove. There is also a Facebook campaign, plus another site dedicated to saving School Sport Partnerships.
Here is a copy of the letter Mr Gove sent to Baroness Sue Campbell, who chairs the Youth Sport Trust...
I can confirm that the Department will not continue to provide ring-fenced funding for school sport partnerships. I am also announcing that the Department is lifting, immediately, the many requirements of the previous Government's PE and Sport Strategy, so giving schools the clarity and freedom to concentrate on competitive school sport. I am removing the need for schools to:
- plan and implement their part of a 'five hour offer';
- collect information about every pupil for an annual survey;
- deliver a range of new Government sport initiatives each year;
- report termly to the Youth Sport Trust on various performance indicators;
- conform to a national blueprint for how to deliver PE and sport, and how to use their staff and resources; and
- get permission from the Youth Sport Trust and the Department to use their funding flexibly or to vary how they do things.
In giving schools this freedom, we are trusting school leaders to take decisions in the best interests of the pupils and parents they serve. I would expect every school to want to maintain, as a minimum, the current levels of provision for PE and sport each week for every pupil. Primary, secondary and special schools have enjoyed between them some £2.4 billion of Exchequer and Lottery investment since 2003, and parents and the public will expect them to have embedded the good practice and collaboration developed over the last seven years. I should also clarify that the Department is not closing down school sport partnerships. Rather, they are being entrusted to schools, who can decide whether and how to use them in the future.
I'm Tim Iredale, the BBC's Political Editor in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and presenter of the regional Politics Show. This is strictly a "no-spin" zone where the political viewpoint is more Humber Bridge than Westminster Bridge. Your comments and observations are more than welcome. 
