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It's eight o'clock on Tuesday the thirty first of July.

David Cameron is setting out his ideas for improving school discipline -- amid more signs of unease within his own party about his leadership.

The Government's law advisers say unmarried couples living together should get more legal rights.

Gordon Brown is continuing his visit to the United States by meeting the UN Secretary General.

And the British army's longest campaign -- to aid the police in Northern Ireland -- comes to a formal end today.

DAVID CAMERON
The Conservative leader, David Cameron, will outline his plans for improving discipline in schools today. He'll suggest creating contracts between schools and parents that could be enforceable and changing the system under which families can appeal against their children being expelled. However, as Mr Cameron seeks to bolster the authority of heads, he faces criticism of his leadership from within his party -- and unwelcome news from the pollsters. Here's our political correspondent, Laura Kuenssberg:

KUESSBERG: There are doubts about his discipline in his own party but David Cameron will talk about school discipline today. He'll suggest home-school contracts where headteachers could require parents to sign up to codes of behaviour for their child to be admitted to their school. And he'll say parents should no longer be allowed to appeal to the local education authority if their child is excluded. After sniping from critics Mr Cameron wants to be seen to be in charge. Yet he'll face questions too on polls this morning - one for the Times conducted by phone over the weekend suggests support for the Conservatives has fallen back to thirty-three percent, compared to Labour's thirty-nine -- that's the Tories lowest position since before Mr Cameron took over.

COHABITING COUPLES 1
The body which advises the government on changes to the law says couples in England and Wales who live together but aren't married should be given more legal rights. The Law Commission is recommending that they should be entitled to a proper financial settlement if they split up. Our social policy correspondent, Andrew Bomford, has more details:

BOMFORD: The two million cohabiting couples in England and Wales have very little legal protection if the relationship breaks up, despite a widely held - but completely wrong belief that so called "common law" marriage gives one partner a share of the assets. The Law Commission says the current law is unjust. It says if one partner has given up a career to bring up children, they should get compensation if they split up. At the moment, they have no right to assets like the family home if it was owned by the ex-partner. The same principle would apply to couples without children who've lived together for at least two years. The proposals fall short of the protection given to married couples, and the Law Commission says it's trying to protect cohabiting couples without undermining marriage.

COHABITING COUPLES 2
The commissioner who conducted the review, Stuart Bridge, told us one of a couple splitting up could apply for an order setting out the financial terms of their separation; he explained how he envisaged the system working:

BRIDGE ACT: The sort of orders that are most likely to be made would be orders for the payment of a lump sum, a capital award that would in a sense compensate for the financial, the economic impact of the relation on the couple. The most likely claimant would be someone who had stayed at home to look after the children, is the primary career, it's anticipated that post separation, they're going to continue doing that with all the obvious prejudice that will follow in terms of their earning capacity, their future earnings, their pension and so forth.

GORDON BROWN
Gordon Brown continues his visit to the United States with a speech at the United Nations in New York later today. Last night he met the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon; among issues discussed were ways of tackling the crisis in Darfur and world poverty. Our correspondent in Washington, Duncan Kennedy, reports:

KENNEDY: Gordon Brown will use his speech at the UN today to call for greater international effort to solve problems like AIDS and poverty. He wants world leaders to live up to their Millennium promises made seven years ago to tackle a range of issues. His attempt to broaden the agenda beyond Iraq was first seen at yesterday's meeting with President Bush. Analysts have been dissecting their joint press conference to judge how close the two leaders are, personally and on policy. Both men stressed the need to fight international terrorism, though Mr Brown spoke of British forces in Iraq moving to an over-watch status - interpreted here as an indication of possible withdrawal. The visit has received widespread coverage. Gordon Brown is being viewed as a loyal ally to the President but also someone who will chart an independent course as well.

MIDDLE EAST
The United States is to provide multi-billion dollar military aid packages to Egypt and Israel in an attempt to counter the influence of Iran and Syria in the Middle East. A separate deal with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states is also in the pipeline. The news was announced by the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, as she headed to Egypt for talks with Arab foreign ministers. A spokesman at the US state department, Tom Casey, said the aid would allow the allies of the United States to defend themselves:

CASEY ACT: What it does do at this particular moment is send a very clear signal, again to Iran and to Syria and to those who are seeking to destabilise the region, that the United States is committed to the security of our friends and allies and that we are going to make sure that they have what they need to be able to defend themselves against these threats.

AFGANISTAN
Police in Afghanistan have discovered the bullet-ridden body of a second hostage who was among twenty-three South Koreans kidnapped by the Taleban. The body of the first hostage was found last Wednesday. From Kabul, here's Alastair Leithead:

LEITHEAD: The security chief of Ghazni Province, south-west of Kabul, said at first light a body had been discovered by the side of a road in the Andar district and that it was one of the twenty-three South Korean hostages kidnapped almost two weeks ago and being held by the Taleban. It's the second member of the aid mission to now have been killed, also one of the men in the group of mainly female Christians. He'd been shot a number of times. Their preacher and leader was killed last Wednesday. His body has now been returned home. But on Monday night the Taleban put out a statement saying they had killed another of the hostages as the Afghan government had failed to free their prisoners, which has been at the heart of negotiations for the freeing of the South Koreans.

BOWEL CANCER
A major European study has found new evidence linking alcohol consumption with bowel cancer. The findings suggest that people who drink one or two glasses of wine or beer a day increase their risk of developing the disease by about ten per cent. That rises to twenty-five per cent for people who drink twice as much as that. The study involves more than half a million people and is thought to be the biggest of its kind to date

CANNABIS
Researchers in New Zealand say that smoking a single cannabis cigarette -- or joint -- damages lungs as much as smoking up to five normal cigarettes. The scientists say the reason is that most cannabis smokers don't use a filter, and inhale more deeply than cigarette smokers.

PRISONER
The Court of Appeal will decide today whether the Government has acted unlawfully in the way it's managed a prisoner who was given an indeterminate sentence. David Walker, a convicted sex offender, can't be considered for release until he's gone through the parole procedure -- but there are no places available for a parole course in his jail. Our home affairs correspondent Gillian Hargreaves has more details:

HARGREAVES: David Walker was convicted of sexual assault while he was drunk. He was given what's called an indeterminate sentence and could be released this November. But he has to prove to parole board that he is no longer a danger to the public before he can be freed. His lawyers argue he has no realistic possibility to start the process because there are no parole courses for life prisoners at his category of jail. Three thousand people are now serving indeterminate sentences. Far more than the government predicted. Critics say inmates are clogging up the system because a lack of course places is preventing them from beginning the process which will lead to their eventual release from jail.

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
A cross-party group of MPs has raised serious reservations about the new chairman of one of Britain's most influential scientific bodies - the Medical Research Council. The Commons Science and Technology Committee said it wasn't convinced that Sir John Chisholm was the right man for the job. A spokesman for the Council said the government was drawing up a response to the Committee's findings.

IRELAND
The longest campaign in the history of the British army formally ends at midnight tonight, with the conclusion of Operation Banner -- the code name for military support of the police in Northern Ireland. Troops were originally brought onto the streets in 1969 at the request of the Unionist government concerned about sectarian rioting. Our Ireland Correspondent, Kevin Connolly reports:

CONNOLLY: There will be no bugles at sunset to mark the end of Operation Banner. It is a technical change in the status of an army which is to remain, albeit at a reduced level. But even if there are no official ceremonies, many families are left to reflect on the human cost of the troubles. Seven-hundred-and-sixty-three military personnel were killed by terrorists and the army shot three-hundred-and-one people, including many civilians. Much has changed since the first troops poured in to west Belfast with bayonets fixed, to be welcomed as protectors by the nationalist communities, who were eventually to turn on them. But there is a grim continuity there too. Many of those soldiers had served in Aden as it slipped from British rule and they were rushed so hastily into Northern Ireland in 1969 that at first the posters they carried warning rioters to desist were in Arabic, remnants of their previous campaign. Now, many of the soldiers who learned the dangerous skills and drills of patrolling in Belfast and South Armagh have been back to the Middle East to apply them in Iraq.

CRUISE
Two passengers who fell ill on a cruise liner have tested positive for Legionnaires Disease at a hospital in Sweden. They were among 750 people -- most of them British -- who'd been on a tour of the Baltic on board the Black Watch, operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines. The company said tests for Legionella bacteria on the ship had so far proved negative.