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Judi Dench is so right: living with Mum can be fun

The actress Judi Dench shows it’s possible to live happily with parents and in-laws.

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11-year-old hated smell of marijuana so much he had pictures of ‘his mother’s stash’ sent to police

An 11-year-old boy was so sick of the smell of marijuana smoke in his house that he took pictures of the drugs on his cell phone- and had them forwarded to police.

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Mother loses 20 STONE and 12 dress sizes after GP tells her she could be dead in two years

Carole Wright, who weighed 30 stone and couldn’t even put on her shoes, is named slimmer of the year

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Stripper mother ‘took her kids on shoplifting spree to steal lingerie for work’

A stripper took her two children on a shoplifting expedition as she allegedly stole lingerie to wear for her job.

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Mother pays tribute to Fife sea tragedy boy, 3

A mother has paid tribute to her three-year-old son who died after being swept out to sea in Fife.

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Take splat! Hell hath no fury as angry mother chases clamper round car park with a bucket of sludge after son’s car is clamped

Big internet hit after friend videos the ambush

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Afghan mother and daughter stoned and shot dead after Taliban accused them of ‘moral deviation and adultery’

Armed men stoned and shot dead a widow and her daughter in Aghanistan after the Taliban accused the women of ‘moral deviation and adultery’, according to reports.

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Mother ‘made daughter pose nude for Skype stranger’ to enter fake $20,000 mom-child bikini shoot competition

A gullible mother allegedly made her daughter pose nude for a stranger on Skype, in the hope of winning a $20,000 mom-child bikini photo shoot.

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Women ‘being let down by banks’

Expectant and new mothers are denied loans, says report

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The mother who lost five sons

On Armistice Day, the heartbreaking story of the biggest loss by a British family in the Great War

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The lonely life of a wicked stepmother

His children hate you – and he takes their side. Yours feel betrayed. And his ex-wife? Don’t even go there…

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Maternity unit hit by five deaths tells 180 mothers: Go elsewhere

A maternity unit where five women have died is cutting back on the number of births it deals with.

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Mother depressed over job fears kills herself and her two children

A mother killed her two young children, then herself after telling family and friends that she feared she was going to lose her job.

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Dead hungry: Mother-to-be develops bizarre cravings for roadkill

Alison Brierley is a professional taxidermist
‘It’s more gamey than other meat and I love the taste’
She even serves it at dinner parties

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The mother of all stain removing tips

Mucky pups leave dirty marks. But who’d have known that banana would be so hard to get out of clothes? Amy Fleming manages the stains that motherhood, ahem, throws up

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The anorexic mother who weighs less than her daughter, 7

At first glance they might be sisters, but look again at this startling picture.

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The anorexic mother who weighs less than her daughter, 7

At first glance they might be sisters, but look again at this startling picture.

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Slovakian family imported dozens of ‘mothers’ to Britain so they could falsely claim £1.2m in benefits

Con artists spent the cash on gambling and jewellery and stored £30k at their house in Chatham, Kent

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Mummy, I want to be a fashionista

It’s ruinously expensive and not for playgrounds. Lanvin’s line for little girls is princess wear, says Rebecca Gonsalves

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The songs my soldier son loved

Five bereaved mothers have shared the memories of the sons they have lost in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the songs they will remember them by, in a special series for Remembrance Week.

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Bid to trace girl abducted by father

An appeal has been made to trace a four-year-old girl abducted by her father who told the child’s mother she “would never see her again”.

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My mother’s cancer made me hate her

Her mother recovered from cancer not once but twice – a miracle that only brought out the worst in Jessica Gulliver

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‘My son is sorry… I just need help’

Mother of 12-year-old accused of throwing cart that left woman critically injured weeps outside court

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Why brief encounters just ain’t what they used to be

Brief encounters ain’t what they used to be. Squeaky clean Justin Bieber is allegedly a daddy after a 30-second rompini in a backstage toilet with a fan. And they say tru luv is dead!

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Mumsy’s the word that no feminist should utter

Liz Jones’s bizarre confession she was a ‘sperm stealer’ comes with the dreadful aside that she ‘looked down on mumsy types’

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Little girl’s letters that brought her mummy back from the brink of death

It seemed there was no hope.

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Problem solved

My daughter is always angry with her children – they seem frightened of her

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Putting baby in cot after birth causes stress levels to double

Separating newborn babies from their mothers causes their stress levels to nearly double and makes them far less likely to sleep, a study has found.

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I’d have loved a reading mentor, says dyslexic Saturdays star Mollie King

The Saturdays star Mollie King told today how she had to “cheat” in school to cover up her difficulty reading.

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I thought Caesareans were the easy option… until mine nearly killed me

My first child, Daniel, came into the world nearly ten years ago after an agonising 27-hour labour and almost every intervention imaginable.

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CCTV of mother and grandmother mugged whilst pushing pram in Bolton

CCTV captures the moment a three-month-old baby in a pram was thrown to the ground as robbers stole his grandmother’s handbag.

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The craving for a baby that drives women to the ultimate deception

Liz Jones makes her most shocking confession yet

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Sorry kids, I don’t want to be on first-name terms

One morning last week, my 13-year-old daughter appeared at the breakfast table in a petulant mood. ‘Yes, Rachel,’ she sighed when I asked her if she’d done all her homework. ‘No thank you, Rachel,’ she groaned when I offered scrambled eggs with her toast.

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Mother calls for answers on son’s death at chemical lab

THE mother of a scientist who died while working alone at night at a leading London hospital today demanded answers over his death.

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Mother-of-two hit by shopping cart ‘thrown from fourth floor by laughing boys’ was buying Halloween treats for under-privileged kids

Two 12-year-old boys charged with felony assault and weapon possession

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‘I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy,’ says Jeremy Paxman

As it’s revealed today’s young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents, the Newsnight presenter says he and his fellow Baby-Boomers have bequeathed little worth celebrating…

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Babies ‘should sleep in mother’s bed until age three’

Newborn babies should share their mother’s bed until they are at least three years old, a paediatrician has claimed.

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‘I love you, look after your mother’

Madoff’s text that son thought was suicide note after arrest

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Bad news for dads

Babies ‘should share mother’s bed until age three’ because it’s good for their hearts

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Liberty backs mother over riot threat

A mother facing eviction from her council flat after her teenage son was convicted of looting today enlisted the aid of human rights group Liberty to save her home from the bailiffs.

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Kristiana Logina ‘burned by mother and left to die’

A toddler died after being burned in the shower by her mother and left to die from her injuries, a court heard.

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Bugaboo warns that faulty pushchairs could tip over

Bugaboo, the pushchair brand favoured by many middle-class mothers, has warned customers that a fault on one of its models could cause it to tip over.

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Mother-of-three has ‘new lease of life’ after shedding HALF her body weight

A mother-of-three has revealed how she has had ‘a new lease of life’ after shedding half her body weight.

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When is an older mother TOO old? Meet the women becoming first-time parents in their fifties

John Travolta’s wife Kelly Preston was thrilled when she became pregnant again last year at the age of 47.

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Why a mother’s sense of hearing and smell are heightened when her distressed children need her

A mother’s senses of hearing and smell are heightened by the maternal instinct to recognise distress calls from her children, research shows.

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Twice the burden, but mothers of twins are stronger and live longer

Mothers of twins may have double the trouble but they live longer and are physically stronger than women who have single babies, according to a study of almost 59,000 women.

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Who’s a big boy? Mother has to resort to caesarean to give birth to 14lb baby

When Miriam Pearman found out she was pregnant for the second time, all she wanted was a natural birth after she had to have her first son by caesarean section.

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I saw my mother die in agony from ‘silent’ bone disease, says Camilla

The Duchess of Cornwall told today of her mother’s “heart-breaking” death from a crippling bone disease.

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Single mother awarded £35,600 after CSA said her ex-partner was ‘exempt’ from maintenance as he worked in Afghanistan

Father is a former soldier and now works for private security company

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Nicolas Sarkozy missed the arrival of his daughter Giulia. So does the father have to be at the birth?

Carla Bruni Sarkozy’s husband, the French president, was not present when their baby was born last week – he was busy sorting out the euro. Most dads now turn up at the labour ward, but is that good for mother and baby?

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