He will chair the General Teaching Council for its first 18 months, from September next year.. THE SCHOOL that educated generations of royals, as well as the fictional cyber-hero Lara Croft, has opened its doors in an attempt to dispel its austere image of cold showers and long cross-country runs. But the cost of them coming back to further education colleges and doing what they should have done at school is immense."Tom Jupp, the principal of City and Islington College, where the classes will be run, said the pounds 250 a year or so paid to students would offset their spending on travel and books.t The Oscar-winning film producer Lord Puttnam is to head the new body that will regulate and speak for the teaching profession, the Government announced yesterday. If successful, it will be extended to Islington's other seven secondary schools, which come near the bottom of the national exam league table.Chris Jude, the borough's lifelong learning officer, said the scheme would compensate students for loss of earnings."We have an awful lot of youngsters in this country who get turned off school at an early age Some of them come back later in life. Islington Council wants to stop youngsters from deprived households from taking weekend jobs that prevent them concentrating on their studies. The council initially wants to offer classes at a local further education college to 60 children. The students, borderline GCSE candidates from two of the borough's schools, will have to sign a contract with their parents, committing them to the four-year "Upward Bound" scheme, which aims to encourage students to go on to university. CHILDREN IN an inner-city London borough will be paid pounds 3.50 an hour to take part in Saturday classes to improve their exam results, under proposals revealed yesterday.

"It has value because it is an offensive name and was a clever way of attracting the attention of IT managers who are well-known to seek out pornographic websites on the Internet," he said.Mr Justice Rattee asked: "It has value because it is an offensive name?"Mr Turner replied: "It was seen as clever by the claimant, why should it not be seen as clever by the defendant?"Earlier this year Mr Justice Rattee blocked an attempt to auction Jonathan Aitken's private letters.. Mr Sutton, who advises on e-mail sites for companies, trades under the name First Consultant UK.Mr Jonathan Turner, representing Mr Sutton, said the initials FCUK were widely used in Internet circles as an alternative to an offensive expletive, as a way of avoiding filters and controls on websites.He said his client had realised the value of "fcuk" as a domain name to attract attention to his business. He said: "I find the case of both parties unpalatable in the extreme, having regard to the subject matter, but that is not something on which I can make a ruling."The fashion chain had wanted an immediate injunction to bar the fcuk website, but the judge ordered a full trial of the issues.The judge said that during the trial, the High Court might be able to review the registration of the trademark FCUK, and whether the registrar ought to have refused it on the grounds that it was contrary to public policy because of its obscene connotations.The FCUK advertising campaign had been running a year before the website's domain name was registered, but French Connection did not register the FCUK trademark until some days later.Miss Vitoria said the site had been accessed 21,000 times and was now being visited 70 times a day by people who could think it was connected with French Connection.French Connection Ltd, which registered the trademark in April 1997, took out the action against Tony Sutton, 31, from south London. But young people who buy clothes do not find it offensive, they find it amusing."But the judge refused to give an immediate ruling in French Connection's favour. Mr Justice Rattee told the court yesterday that FCUK was "just a euphemism" for an for an obscene expletive. Lawyers representing the fashion chain French Connection had asked the judge to stop an Internet consultant using the website name, fcuk .They claimed the defendant was exploiting the "goodwill" generated by its successful FCUK advertising campaign around the initials it uses as its trademark.Mr Justice Rattee asked: "How can you talk about goodwill in connection with such a tasteless and obnoxious campaign? It may be you have been hoist by your own petard in using such an extraordinary advertising slogan."Miss Mary Vitoria, representing French Connection, replied: "Your lordship may find it offensive I might find it offensive. A HIGH COURT judge who declined to give a ruling in a trademark dispute over the use of the title FCUK said he found the French Connection advertising campaign "obnoxious and tasteless".

"But it is entirely consistent with our remit to provide a genuine alternative to other channels at this and every other time of year."Mr Ades is the youngest winner of the pounds 125,000 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the biggest prize of its kind in the world.. The opera was first performed at the Cheltenham Festival in July 1995 and is a cabaret-style tale based on the rise and fall of the Duchess. It traces her life in flashbacks from the 1920s to the 1990s. The broadcast will start at 8.40pm, says Channel 4, and has been timed so the controversial oral sex scene is shown after the 9pm watershed."Channel 4 realises Powder Her Face may not be family Christmas viewing," said a spokesman.