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LORRAINE CANDY: ‘Told you they were edible,’ squealed my eldest, brandishing a recipe for guinea pig stew…

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Blasted Google: another of those things that’s supposed to make your life easier, but actually makes it harder.

How can I celebrate a mother I’ve only met in my dreams? In the run-up to Mother’s Day, one woman’s haunting lament

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Deborah Dooley was two when her mother died, aged 31 – or so she believes. That detail, along with so many others about her mother’s life, remains hazy.

One in six children fail to get first choice of secondary school

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Thousands of families were left disappointed after almost 90,000 children did not get a place at their preferred school this [...]

Tonight’s Question Time will feature an all-women audience

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

The BBC has decided to celebrate women’s rights by showing one episode of Question Time with a female-only audience.

Doctors mistook woman’s pregnancy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome… until THREE HOURS before she gave birth

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

A hairdresser gave birth to a baby girl – just three hours after being told she was pregnant by doctors [...]

The dangers of ’sexting’ added to school curriculum for pupils as young as FIVE

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Pupils will be given lessons on domestic violence and sexual bullying which will cover the impact of the media and technology.

Mother goes to court to stop her daughter calling her new stepmother ‘Mum’

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The Adelaide mother, who cannot be named, told the Family Court that her ex-husband was deliberately undermining her role as their child’s mother.

For my darling Mummy: Touching video tribute by daughter who launched website dedicated to her dying mother

Monday, March 8th, 2010

They are treasured moments from a family album.
Now in a poigant and personal tribute they have been set to music [...]