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A young mother who was due to give birth in three weeks has been found dead in the bathroom by her devastated partner. Hayley Wilton was only 19 years old. Her childhood sweetheart, Ashley Culverwell, made the discovery on Sunday morning after getting out of bed. The cause of Hayley’s death is a mystery although [...]

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Poor families in England are being ‘priced out’ of keeping their homes warm, putting their health and well-being at risk, a report by children’s charity Barnardo’s claimed today. Cold homes: Barnardo’s urged the Government to require landlords to make their properties energy-efficient to tackle fuel poverty by the root Households with the bottom 10 per [...]

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A law student has won thousands of pounds in compensation from a Chinese restaurant after it sacked him for being white. David O’Neill had been working as a waiter to help pay for his degree but was sacked when workers were brought in from China. Unable to afford a solicitor, the 19-year-old – who has [...]

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A two-year-old suffered an agonising death after drinking toxic liquid his mother was using to help grow cannabis in his bedroom, a court heard yesterday. Aaron Booth had not eaten all morning and went hunting for food and drink at lunchtime because his mother was still in bed with her boyfriend, the court was told. [...]

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Sitting next to a screaming child on a airplane can be a battle of nerves, and one passenger decided to help the offending youngster exit the plane as soon as possible – by opening the emergency exit. Luckily for all on board, the Vietnam Airlines plane had already landed in Ho Chi Minh City airport, [...]

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A 13-year-old boy is among those arrested after a disabled father-of-two was left with a severe head injury following an argument with a group of youths. George Craddock, 42, of Wirral, Merseyside, is fighting for his life in hospital after the attack. An 18-year-old youth has been arrested on suspicion of wounding following the arrest [...]

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Supermarket chain Tesco was forced to act ahead of expected protests outside its shops on Wednesday by campaigners who have described it as “slave labour”. Argos said it wanted assurances that young people who do not take part will keep their benefits. Other leading high street names including Burger King and Pizza Hut are also [...]

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One in four cash-strapped mothers is being forced to return items at the checkout or buy low-cost own brand products in order to make ends meet. In a desperate attempt to disguise the impact of the economic downturn from their children, mothers are re-filling branded cereal boxes with supermarket own brand versions. The tactics being [...]

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They’ve been keeping children happy for years and are a godsend for many parents when trying to keep their little ones quiet. But it would seem it is not just youngsters who appreciate the soothing benefits of the teddy bear – it still occupies a special place in the hearts of many grown-ups too. Research [...]

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In some inner-city areas more than three-quarters of infants are now being born into immigrant families. However British-born parents are still in the majority in a handful of suburban boroughs. Campaigners say the figures, disclosed by the Office for National Statistics in a parliamentary written answer, make an integrated society more difficult to achieve. They [...]

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A study by French scientists shows that newborns can recognise aromas they have been exposed to during the final days of gestation. It suggests that a mother’s dietary choices could alter the way their baby’s sensory system develops and influence their taste before they are even born. Researchers from the European Centre for Taste Science [...]

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Almost 160,000 children start smoking every year in the UK – enough to fill around 5,200 classrooms, a charity has warned. The 157,000 children aged 11 to 15 who take up the habit every year could also make up 14,000 junior football teams, according to Cancer Research UK. The charity, which supports a move to [...]

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Every 15-year-old feels the same about their parents – they’re just plain irritants. Apparently even pop progeny, Lourdes Leon. The youngster seems to be rebelling against Madonna with her shaven head and masculine clothing. Embarrassing parent alert: Lourdes looked unimpressed as her Madonna swung a guitar case through JFK airport It’s a far cry from [...]

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A painful womb condition affecting two million British women has been linked to a greater risk of ovarian cancer. Women suffering endometriosis are three times more likely to develop the disease, say researchers. A study has identified three types of ovarian cancer which are more common in women with endometriosis, a condition that also affects [...]

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Anxiety about their own health and that of their babies could leave older mothers open to depression, research suggests. A study of thousands of mothers of children aged five and under found depression rates to be far higher in those aged 40 to 44 than among those who were younger. Though the cause was unclear, [...]

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Women who have a varied diet in pregnancy may be less likely to have a child who is a fussy eater. A decade of research has linked the smells and tastes that a baby is exposed to in its first few weeks and months of life with the foods and scents it grows to like. [...]

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The 17–year–old girl frequently had intercourse with the men but then moved on “to playing an active role” in the exploitation of younger girls. She accompanied victims as young as 13 during encounters in the north of England, sometimes having intercourse with one man while a second raped another girl in the same room. A [...]

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Women in their late thirties and early forties who have recently given birth are more likely to be depressed than younger mothers. This could be down to the higher levels of stress older women go through during pregnancy due to concerns about their and their baby’s health, it was claimed. Giulia Muraca, a PHD student [...]

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Usually it is a parent begging a judge to have mercy on an errant teenager. But when Julie Cairns, 38, ended up in court after a drunken car chase with police, it was her  14-year-old daughter who pleaded for her to be spared jail. The judge said Cairns should be ‘thoroughly ashamed’ for putting her [...]

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A grieving daughter has been ordered to pay £3,000 to a nursing home because she did not give a month’s notice of her father’s death. Sue Cann, 54, was told she had incurred the costs because a period of 28 days had to be paid in the event of a resident ‘moving out or passing [...]

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A newborn died after he was left in the care of his homeless, alcoholic mother by social workers, a damning report has revealed. Social workers from Southend Council found the 34-day-old baby dead on a sofa next to his mother, who had ‘consumed a large amount of alcohol the night before his death’, the review [...]

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An international rugby referee who taught at an exclusive school threw his baby son from a bridge today before jumping to his own death, it has emerged. Jason Lees, 40, threw his two-year-old son from Brisbane’s 243ft-high Story Bridge, then jumped to his own death, landing in parkland on the banks of the Brisbane River. [...]

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A lorry driver used his vehicle as a weapon in an ‘appalling’ road rage attack on a couple who were driving their sick baby to hospital. Michael Constantine, 26, from Glossop, Derbyshire, rammed the driver’s side door of the Mark Creacall’s car as he and his partner took their son for treatment. The impact of [...]

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I’m 23 and I’m pregnant. It was a surprise, but my boyfriend and I are very much in love and were planning on getting married and having a family in the next few years anyway, so we thought, ‘Why not?’ All was fine until I began to feel low, worrying about how we’ll make ends [...]

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Nick Clegg will today vow to deal with the “ticking time bomb” of teenagers who are not in work, school or training. The Deputy Prime Minister is due to announce a £126 million scheme to get 16 and 17-year-olds back into employment or education. The initiative is part of the coalition’s Youth Contract scheme, announced [...]

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Teen and tween girls and boys are posting clips of themselves on to YouTube accompanied by the question ‘Am I ugly?’ A short search yields scores of videos from insecure 11, 12, 13 and 14-year-olds, their anxiety forcing them into the notoriously harsh world of online commentating to find an answer to their misguided question. [...]

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Children aged 10 to 14 who watch a lot of movies featuring alcohol are twice as likely to drink, according to new research. Experts questioned more than 6,500 youngsters four times, asking in each session whether they had seen any of 50 films selected at random. The teenagers were also asked in each survey if [...]

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Experts say that teenagers who have seen the most films featuring alcohol are twice as likely to start consuming alcohol as those who watched the least. Parents should closely monitor the films their children watch, advise the researchers, while Hollywood should look at phasing out drinking scenes, just as it has for smoking. The team, [...]

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Firms and charities are to be invited to bid for a payment-by-results scheme to try to get “Neet” teenagers into work or training, in a project launched by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. The £126m scheme is aimed at 55,000 teenagers in England with poor qualifications who are currently not in education, employment or training. [...]

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Eilish Colclough, 44,  a former businesswoman, was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer five years ago and was told that at best she had five years to live, at worst, just one or two. She lives in Buxton, Derbyshire, with her husband Anthony, 44, and five children, Emma, 25, Megan, 19, Abigail, 18, Jemima, 15, and [...]

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Babies are two-and-a-half times more likely to have colic if their mothers suffer from migraines, say researchers. Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco, looked at the medical records of 154 mothers and their babies. Child neurologist Dr Amy Gelfand told the American Academy of Neurology: ‘Since migraine is a highly genetic disorder, our [...]

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When Elaine Martin and Sean O’Halloran were told that their daughter was going to be a big baby, they expected their newborn would tip the scales at 10-11lbs. But Niamh exceeded all expectations by weighing a staggering 14lbs 4oz at birth – possibly earning her an entry in the record books as Britain’s heaviest baby [...]

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But as her son became increasingly upset at being referred to as a boy, and expressed a desire to wear girl’s clothes, she decided to seek the guidance of experts. After months of consultations, doctors diagnosed Zachary with gender identity disorder, making him one of the youngest children in Britain to have the belief that [...]

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A father collapsed in a toy shop after he was bitten ten times by the UK’s most dangerous spider. Chris Galton had been shopping at children’s store Toys R Us with wife, Zoe, and one-year-old daughter, Imogen, when he suddenly became unwell and dropped to the floor. Bitten: Chris Galton, pictured with his daughter Imogen, [...]

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More than 1,000 young people, aged between eight and 18 were polled, along with their families, and the majority of parents admitted to caving to pressure to give their child a phone by the time they were 11. Parents also revealed that they are generally willing to pay around £20 a month to cover their [...]

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A heartbroken 14-year-old boy hanged himself after sending a text message to his ex-girlfriend saying ‘you left me in pieces’, an inquest heard. James Carragine found his son, Ryan, dead in his bedroom at the family home in Brixton, south London, last November. Near the schoolboy’s lifeless body lay a note written in red pen, [...]

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New mothers may be told that they will be back to ‘normal’ within six weeks of giving birth, but a new study has found that most women take much longer to recover. Dr Julie Wray, of Salford University, interviewed women two to three weeks, three months and six to seven months after they had given [...]

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It’s been a banner year for Gary Barlow, between his successful stint on the X Factor, being honoured with a special National Television Award for his charity work, and taking charge of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert. And the good news keeps on coming, with the singer announcing that on Sunday that he is to [...]

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Simple vocabulary tests on children as young as two can identify those who will find it difficult to learn language and lag behind their peers in becoming fluent. The doctors who developed the tests said they provided a crucial means of spotting children who could benefit from early language therapy to help them reach their [...]

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It’s half term and the boys and I are going skiing. My former father-in-law, Jonathan, takes us, along with his son and two grandchildren, to Courchevel for our annual dads’n’lads snow and tell: due to numerous divorces, besides mine, we don’t see much of each other during the year, so this is his way of [...]

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Traditionally, it was the parents of the bride who worried about planning their daughter’s big day. Now it is the children who are being asked to organise their parents’ wedding, in a BBC “reality” show. In Marrying Mum & Dad, children as young as seven will be allowed to spend up to £10,000 on each [...]

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A five-year-old who felt he was a girl trapped in a boy’s body has become one of the youngest-ever children to be diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder. From the age of three Zach Avery refused to live as a boy, instead choosing to wear pink dresses and ribbons in his long, blonde hair. He also [...]

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The line-up for this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust concerts has been announced and people will be able to choose between 1990s indie rock, current chart toppers and stand-up comedy. Example, Pulp, Jessie J, Florence + the Machine, and Jason Manford plus special guests will all appear during five nights of shows at the Royal Albert [...]

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A brave toddler who suffered horrific burns after knocking over a cup of tea has made a remarkable recovery after doctors sprayed him with a new layer of skin. Two-year-old Zed Merrick was left with second-degree burns across his chest and shoulder after a steaming cup of tea fell off a kitchen worktop at his [...]

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Babies too young to speak know how to make jokes and form friendships, say researchers. Academics at Charles Sturt University in Australia found, in a two-year study, that children aged six months to 18 months use sophisticated but subtle non-verbal means to make friends and make each other laugh. via Babies make jokes while still [...]

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The 27-year-old university graduate, who was born a woman but has had treatment to change his gender, gave birth to a girl in March last year, and admitted he had had to cope with concerns from his family. He said his parents took the pregnancy well but added: “They seemed to be OK but I [...]

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THIS is the remarkable photograph that saved tiny Sophie Tubman’s life. It was only when mum Louise lay Sophie next to her twin sister Megan that she could see the difference between them. It was a striking mirror image – but with a life-threatening difference. Compared to newborn Megan’s pink healthy complexion, Sophie’s skin in [...]

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Girls as young as 13 are posting explicit photographs on Facebook to “advertise” themselves to older gang members, police say. The children, who are often already involved on the periphery of street gangs, are putting up highly sexualised pictures, apparently in an attempt to gain status. Detective Chief Inspector Petrina Cribb, who leads a gang [...]

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A mother of four has spoken out about her ordeal at the hands of an Orthodox Jewish community- saying she was trapped in an abusive arranged marriage for six years. Pearlperry Reich, 30, says she was pushed into an arranged marriage with Sinai Meir Sholz in her home of Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York [...]

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