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Johnny Depp school visit – if you don’t ask, you don’t get!
The surprise visit of Hollywood hearthrob Johnny Depp to a primary school after being sent a letter by a nine-year-old schoolgirl asking him to help her classmates "mutiny" against the teachers just proves that if you don't ask, you don't get, and nothing is...
The complexities of international adoption
International adoptions should not just be accessible for celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Madonna. I've heard of two stories about about these adoptions recently - one is inspiring, and the other is tragic, denying a young boy left disfigured after being thrown...
Dating 2.0, create your perfect man
Hand picking the perfect man, bit by bit. This video should put a smile on your face 😉 Why not use one the social network tabs and share this with your friends too, put a smile on their face as well 🙂
UK agency axed which helps find missing people
The families of missing people are devastated to learn that the National Policing Improvement Agency which helps find missing people in the UK is to be axed to save government funding. The NPIA maintains a database of 44,000 people listed on its Missing Persons'...
Damien Nettles, missing 14 years, and his heartbroken mother’s search continues
This is the heartbreaking story of Valerie Nettles, whose lovely son Damien has been missing for 14 years next month, and whose search still continues: "We were an ordinary family, doing ordinary everyday things as life hummed along in a comfortable hum-drum way. ...
Conservative child benefit cuts
What a wonderful picture of David and Samantha Cameron with their new baby daughter. And families, of course, was the hot topic at this week's Conservative Party Conference. I am also confused at government plans that from 2013, will remove child benefit from families...
Chilean miners could be free within days
The countdown has begun for the release of 33 Chilean miners trapped 2,300ft in a tunnel since 5 August - everybody's worst nightmare. It is hoped that rescuers will reach the trapped men with the next two days, and that they could be free within days. Just last week,...
Did Onassis have Bobby Kennedy killed?
I've booked tickets to see the new West End play Onassis starring Robert Lindsay. But I am perturbed that the storyline is based on a book which essentially claims that the Greek shipping magnate arranged the murder of Bobby Kennedy which has never been proven....
Congratulations to Nobel Prize winner Prof Robert Edwards
Congratulations to scientist Prof Robert Edwards on being awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. But why has it taken so long for him to achieve this worldwide recognition? The pioneering IVF treatment he developed with Dr Patrick Steptoe at Bourn Hall Clinic, near...