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January 18, 2010
Data emerging from a recent study is indicating that in excess of two million people in Britain are forced to postpone having children because to the high cost of housing.
The findings demonstrated that in Britain, 18 percent of the18 to 44 age group, which is equivalent to 2.4 million people, ...
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November 23, 2009
The campaign to vaccinate healthy children against the H1N1 virus has failed to win widespread support from parents in Wales.
As the country’s death toll rose by seven, to a total of 21, health authorities announced that vaccinations of children aged between six and five years could begin within weeks.
The said ...
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November 20, 2009
A new study shows that four out of five children can't distinguish common zoo animals, and a lot of them are not able to tell the difference between a tiger and a lion.
It has been shown that about a quarter of children have never been to a zoo or animal ...
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November 20, 2009
Children under the age of five will be the next group targeted in the next phase of the swine flu vaccination programme in the UK, according to Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon.
She announced that 260,000 children aged six months to five years would be offered the jab, with infection rates reportedly ...
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October 20, 2009
A recent survey reveals that about half the children in the UK spend more time watching TV or playing on the computer than reading.
The research also indicated that a third of all parents said that bookshelves in their homes were now infested with DVDs and computer games.
The survey, commissioned by ...
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August 14, 2009
Children’s author David Wood will be performing to the first Llandudno Venue Cymru’s children’s arts and literature festival, where he will be reading from his latest book, The Gingerbread Man.
The event, which is presented from August 28 to 19, introduces young people to the arts and literature in ways they ...
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