The UK’s Labour party has accused the Tories of misrepresenting key teen pregnancy data in a 20-page campaign document yesterday. A 20-page campaign document titled “Labour’s Two Nations” released by the Conservative (Tory) party yesterday is being criticized by Labour for a key teen pregnancy statistic that was wrong by a factor of 10
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While it seems that every tabloid picked up last month’s rumor about Brad and Angelina’s so-called plans to split , one British news rag in particular is getting the “credit” – in the form of a lawsuit.
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Brangelina sue over split story
Official numbers out of the UK reveal that girls as young as 10 are getting pregnant. The U.K.’s newspaper The Sun has revealed that in the last eight years, at least 15 girls aged 10 and 39 girls aged 11 became pregnant in England and Wales. The Sun received its data through a Freedom of Information request, finding that in total there have been 63,487 reported pregnancies in girls aged 15 and younger since 2002.
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A father was forced to deliver his own child when the one of the hospital’s midwives disappeared. Thomas Howard had seen his wife give birth four times, but he never expected that he’d have to use what he had observed to personally deliver the couple’s fifth child
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The British government has apologized to Thalidomide victims nearly 50 years after it was pulled from the market for its side effects.
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Britain’s prolific surrogate mother, Jill Hawkins, revealed that she is pregnant with at least one more child. Jill Hawkins is at it again, this time playing surrogate to at least her eighth baby, if not more.
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Ha ha – the joke is on us!
Hickey Freeman/Gilt Groupe Inc. Don Draper-ize your little tike this holiday season.
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Britain’s favorite bedtime story, The Gruffalo, has a tragic family story around it of mental illness. Author Julia Donaldson has revealed how she wanted her son Hamish to die before she and husband Malcolm did and how whilst Hamish inspired her to become a writer he was afflicted with schizoaffective disorder and later in life, alcoholism. She said: “Sometimes I think (his suicide) was an almost unselfish thing.” On Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs this morning Mrs Donaldson made the tragic admission telling host Kirsty Young she is almost glad her 25-year-old son, who committed suicide in 2003, died before she did.
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Somewhere in between Bronx and Bob , there are a whole host of celebrity baby names that live on the fringe between “out there” and “traditional.” According to nameberry.com co-founder Pamela Redmond-Satran , these so-called “outlier” names have the added benefit of being “truly original” while remaining recognizable as established, tried-and-true names.
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Britain has taken the top spot with the highest number of reported abortions in Europe in 2007. Sifting through data provided by Eurostat, Norway-based Institute for Family Policies has found that Britain ranked at the top of the European abortion list for 2007, overtaking France, a country with nearly six million more people. As teenage pregnancy rates have increased more than 30 percent over the last 10 years, abortion rates for girls under 18 have also increased.
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Mike Tyson, the youngest man ever to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles poses with his wife and baby daughter at the Five Lakes Golf and Country Club near Maldon, Essex. The same man, who was fined $3m for partially biting off Evander Holyfield’s ear, tenderly kisses baby Milan as she smiles towards her dad. Earlier this year Tyson married the baby’s mother, Lakiha Spicer
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Twin daughters were born to a man thought to be the UK’s oldest father of twins.
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Taxpayers in Britain are funding child benefit payments for 51,000 children who aren’t even in this country, the majority are Polish with the claimants working a well known, (To all except recently the Government and Taxpayers) loophole in European law.
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19-year-old Jourdan Dunn from Britain is featured on the US magazine, “Teen Vogue” and while showing no signs of a baby bump on the cover, inside she is interviewed and says she is due in December. Opposed to warning teens about pregnancy at an age of immaturity, the magazine has been slammed by critics for making light of teen parenthood and potentially glamorising it.
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Harehills in Leeds is rough, many of the homes have bars on the windows, drug abuse is rife among teenagers, there are vermin everywhere and hope is absent in the stale air of deprivation. Mel B has returned to her home town of Leeds after two decades
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Picture posed by model Earlier this year, Alfie Patten was thought to have become a father at 13 but the baby turned out not to be his.
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Around one in 10 pregnancies in Britain ends in miscarriage. Exposure to diesel exhaust particles for preganant women is linked to miscarriages, scientists warn.
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The odds for IVF success are currenty less than one in four procedures and with around 37,000 woman in Britain every year undergoing IVF, this will be welcome news. British scientists have developed a new method, which screens embryos for genetic defects and greatly increases the chance of women becoming pregnant, even in their late thirties.
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About 37,000 British women had IVF treatment last year and now scientists in Britain have made a further breakthrough. Bringing hope to thousands more women and increasing the liklehood of success is welcome news and it’s all acheived with an embryo screening technique. For patients even in their late thirties, a trial showed that it doubled the conception rate Dr Dagan Wells of Oxford University, who developed the technique described the results as, “astonishing” and Stuart Lavery, consultant gynaecologist at the IVF unit at Hammersmith Hospital, said the latest results were ‘quite amazing when compared to conventional approaches’
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