Birth of a parents' revolution
For 60 years, childbirth charity the NCT has been supporting parents through pregnancy and the early years. Sian Ellidge looks at what the group has achieved and its aims for the future.
For 60 years, childbirth charity the NCT has been supporting parents through pregnancy and the early years. Sian Ellidge looks at what the group has achieved and its aims for the future.
THE Welsh author Dylan Thomas, who once defined an alcoholic as a man you don’t like who drinks as much as you do, honed Under Milk Wood over many years.
HAVING taken our awe-struck seven-year-old son to London for the first time last year, we were keen to repeat the experience before his baby sibling arrived.
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A GROUP of young footballers is celebrating after receiving new kits from a local sponsor.
Jack Spratt to catch a mackerel, the column’s still reaching for the sky over Swaledale
CANNY footballer in his day, David Copland. He was in the Reeth team which proved Wensleydale League invincibles, scored eight in a match for Richmond in the 15-1 win against Catterick Military Hospital – “people said it must have been the patients” – and in 1982 was in the Richmond team which won the Darlington Charity Cup.
IAN Barnes runs and runs; now he overruns. His 80th birthday two days ago, he continues to represent England, to train six days a week, to outstrip credibility. The column had flagged the milestone a couple of weeks back, promised a more substantial celebration, arranged to meet at 8.45am last Saturday before the weekly Darlington Park Run – or parky run, as at that hour on so sub-zero a morning it might not unreasonably have been supposed.
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