Christmas family traditions
Christmas is a family time for most of us: a time to get together and enjoy being together. It is the time when the old traditions are vital to take us through the day and to avoid the usual argument ...
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Smoking ban in cars containing children
Smoking in cars carrying children is set to become illegal in England late next year in the biggest crackdown on lighting up since the ban on smoking in public places in 2007. On Wednesday the governm ...
This week in History – 22nd December 2014
1952 The Queen’s Christmas Speech is broadcast for the first time on the radio 1962 Release of Bay of Pigs Prisoners the last of over 1000 men captured in the Cuban invasion were flown back to ...
Libraries: action needed now!
Sieghart has spoken! The long-awaited independent report on England’s public libraries is out, after sitting on ministers’ desks for over two months. But – so far – the most im ...