Review of the Papers, Tuesday 4 September

A university student who put her feet on a train seat has been summonsed to appear before a court for "wilfully interfering with the comfort or convenience" of other passengers. Kathleen Jennings, 19, from Oldham, said she was approached by an enforcement officer as she sat on the train. When reprimanded, she took her feet off the seat straight away, but still finds herself facing the possibility of a criminal record.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/story/0,,2162060,00.html

The number of children eating school meals has fallen by 424,000 since the government's healthy eating drive began two years ago, with pupils spurning Jamie Oliver-style lunches in favour of takeaways, official figures published yesterday show.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schoolmeals/story/0,,2161882,00.html

The Conservatives will today unveil proposals to roll out the "home-owning democracy" first promised by Margaret Thatcher, as their public services policy review group argues that council tenants should be given cash to buy houses in the private sector.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,2161786,00.html

Mr Johnson is the clear favourite to become the Tory challenger to Ken Livingstone next year in the battle to run the capital. He unveiled a series of populist policy proposals, including more 24-hour policing, boosting home ownership, reforming the congestion charge and encouraging newcomers to learn English.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2924391.ece

Council tenants will be given 10 per cent of the value of their home if they behave well for five consecutive years, under Conservative plans to be announced today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/04/ntory304.xml

Thousands of junior doctors are being underpaid because some NHS trusts have failed to put them on the correct pay level, it was disclosed yesterday.

Recruits who took up new posts on Aug 1 have found their monthly pay packets short by up to £500, leaving some struggling to pay their mortgages.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/04/ndocs104.xml