YorkshirePost- SOCIAL workers at cash-strapped councils face “increasing and intolerable pressure” to protect at-risk children, it was warned last night after the annual number of new cases soared beyond the 10,000 mark for the first time. Local authorities in England began 886 legal proceedings to remove vulnerable young people from their families last month, taking [...]
There had been plans proposed that would fine parents for taking their children on term time holidays, but these have been dropped over concerns of a backlash from hard-pressed families in the middle-class. Taking kids out of school for a holiday can cost half the price as those taken when school is out for half-term. [...]
The war in Iraq has finally come to an end for the US, after nine years of bloodshed and destruction. It started with lies and the undeclared motive of removing a defiant tyrant in control of a substantial portion of the world’s oil and gas reserves. The lie was chocolate-coated with the claim of “liberating [...]
153,000 dead, 160,000 wounded, 1,500,000 dead according to the Algerian government and all this made by France goverment, one of the biggest massacre all over the World and further even 960,000 dead according to historians and Sarkozy-led French government is yet to agree to a demand made by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2006 to apologize for [...]
A teacher who had sex with one of his students in a classroom has been jailed for 16 months. Married Mark Westcott, 48, began the affair with the girl when she was just 16 and had gone to see him for pastoral support. The design and technology teacher had given her his mobile phone number [...]
Turkey’s prime minister on Saturday sharply criticized France for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the World War I-era mass killing of Armenians was genocide. Saying France should investigate what he said was its own “dirty and bloody history” in Algeria and Rwanda, Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Turkey would respond “through [...]
Credit card debts aren’t as acceptable as they once were. People no longer laugh and shrug off thousands of pounds worth of debt as a fact of life, and are more likely to judge you for your spendthrift ways. However, the impact of these debts can be far worse than wagging tongues. If things get [...]
A mother and her two young children found dead in their Pudsey home all suffered stab wounds, reportedly inflicted by their father wielding a knife against his “perfect family”. Clair Smith and her one-year-old son Aaron were killed by a single stab wound to the chest, while nine-year-old Ben died from suffocation, police have confirmed. [...]
Public confidence in the just operation of the Family Courts has evaporated following the four year campaign by Fathers 4 Justice exposing injustice in the handling of private law cases parents fighting each other. Increasingly the press has taken up the challenge and widened the debate to include public law cases parents fighting the [...]
Apple has announced the next-generation iPhone, the iPhone 4S. Although externally it appears identical to the iPhone 4, internally it’s seen many changes. It includes the same dual-core A5 processor that debuted in the iPad 2. Its graphics processor, which is also dual-core, provides up to 7 times the graphical performance of the iPhone 4′s [...]
Amazon just entered to tablet market with amazing Kindle Fire tablet and now we can expect to see many improvments to all the tablets because tablet market is getting hot and better now. Amazon.com introduced the Kindle Fire on September 29th, 2011, a full color tablet version of their popular Kindle e-book reader. Evaluating Kindle [...]
Parts of the country are set to sizzle again as Britons prepare for what could be the hottest October day on record. Forecasters predict temperatures of around 29C (84.2F), in the wake of the warmest end to September for more than 100 years. The current record for the hottest October 1 was set in March, Cambridgeshire, [...]
A two-year-old girl died after she was trapped in a burning van during a fire at a farm, police have said. Isobel June Dobson was in the van with her one-year-old stepsister when the fire broke out at Hessle Farm, in Wragby, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, at around 5.30pm on Friday. Her mother and 37-year-old stepfather [...]
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) could have responded more quickly and cost effectively to the large and sustained increase in care cases from local authorities following the Baby Peter tragedy, had it fully resolved known organisational challenges, according to a report today by the National Audit Office. But Cafcass’s management [...]
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Emma Watson wants to work on a Shakespeare adaptation. The ‘Harry Potter’ actress has a long list of directors and actors who she would love to make movies with and admits her dream role would be in one of the Bard’s classic plays. She said: ‘I would love to work with directors Baz Luhrmann, Guillermo del [...]
There is nothing else that will surely perk you up on a cold and rainy day than a cup of hot and creamy chocolate drink. Thanks to the Aztecs who discovered and gave us this wonderful gift of sweet delicacies that we just love! The Aztecs, during the earlier times of chocolate history, believed that [...]
How to train your dog is the most vital aspect of having a pet dog at your home. You have to train it to follow your commands quite effectively ranging from going for toilet to going to bed. All you need is a well behaved dog that does not make chaos at home and your [...]
