From civil war to the cult of cool
Open Democracy
A brilliantly simple device has been developed, to make sure medical workers know if a woman's been mutilated from early on in her pregnancy. In collaboration with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS and Primary Care Trusts, Ileys has designed a …

Cumbria's Virgin Trains staff in pregnancy test kit row
News & Star
Virgin Trains' station staff in Cumbria may go on strike after one was suspended, allegedly for buying a colleague a pregnancy-testing kit. The Carlisle branch of the RMT is asking the union's executive to hold a ballot for a 24-hour …

Nick's fond memories of motoring legend father
Rutland and Stamford Mercury
Nick was born there weighing just 5lbs – his mother later admitted trying to terminate the pregnancy and she went off on holiday immediately after the birth leaving him in an incubator. He has been back to see Mallory Court which is now an upmarket …

Widnes benefit cheat who swindled £108k walks free from court
Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News
She told investigators that she asked her partner to move in in 2002 after she fell pregnant and discovered there would be complications with the pregnancy. Judge Nicholas Woodward said: “I do have a very real understanding of what it's like for a …

Bristol scientists find teenage motherhood is 'contagious'
Bristol24-7
Professor Propper said: “Previous research has shown that family background and raising the education of girls decreases the chances of teenage pregnancy. However, these findings reveal the positive sibling effect still dwarfs the negative effect of …

The anti-abortion crusader unapologetic over her tactics
Belfast Telegraph
The Ulster Pregnancy Advisory Association gave advice to women who had become pregnant and discussed their options, including abortion, for more than 30 years. But it closed down after anti-abortion campaigners staged pickets outside counsellors' homes …

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The anti-abortion crusader unapologetic over her tactics
Belfast Telegraph
The Ulster Pregnancy Advisory Association gave advice to women who had become pregnant and discussed their options, including abortion, for more than 30 years. But it closed down after anti-abortion campaigners staged pickets outside counsellors' homes …

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Rachel Stevens opts for some zany trousers as she takes daughter Amelie out in …
Daily Mail
The former S Club 7 singer shed her pregnancy pounds fairly quickly after welcoming little Amelie into the world, and said in a recent interview it was with the help of a specialist trainer that she snapped back into shape. …

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Splashing time for young swimmers
Ripon Today
Around 30 members of the club took part in the event held at the swimming pool at the city's Royal British Legion care home, Lister House, in aid of Tommy's, the baby charity which funds research into pregnancy problems and complications such as …

London Riots: The Sociopathic Culture We Have Created.
UK Progressive Magazine
Quite right, it was the intellectually challenged administraters who thought offering benefit funded accomodation for pregnancy was ever a good idea. I have worked with street gangs, I have worked with young mothers, I have worked with the dispossessed …