By ANDREW DENHOLM EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT THE youngest children in Scotland's primary schools are to be taught through play rather than formal classes under a radical shake- up of the curriculum.

By JENNY HJUL IT seems almost cruel to criticise any aspect of Scotland's schools policy a mere 48 hours after Education Minister Peter Peacock stood down on health grounds.

By WENDY MILLER IT has prepared generations of teachers for life at the chalk face and has been at the forefront of world education for decades.

A GLASGOW-based agency at the forefront of the fight against drugs over the past nine years is to be axed. Scotland Against Drugs, the publicly-funded awareness and advisory body set up with crossparty support in 1996, is seen to have run its course.