Councillor Peter Hollingworth (Con, Harborne) said: "Things have gone too far. This is all part of the slide in our morals. Standards have fallen away.
"We seem obsessed with so-called equality. You can't even smack a dog now because it's got equal rights."
Birmingham Post (B R Parry)
The bid, led by Cornwall County Council, is due to be submitted to Unesco by February 2004. If successful, the former mining areas will be placed on a par with Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China.
Planning magazine (Harvey Cole)
A boss who stood outside the JobCentre in Bury distributing leaflets detailing her vacancies was told to move on as she was "poaching" the workless.
Manchester Evening News (Sigrid Rabiger)
