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  • School Lockdown Happening Across The Country

    School lockdown happening across the country, Schools are practicing and preparing for the worst.

    Young children taking part in terror drills are being taught to scramble behind upturned tables and under desks while teachers lock classroom doors and close windows and blinds.

    Youngsters are also urged to keep silent during the drills. The reason is not explained to them, and instead teachers say it is a GAME in one school they were told that they were hiding from a tiger.

    A Department for Education spokesman said: “All schools should have crisis management plans in place, drawn up in conjunction with their local police forces and other authorities, to deal with emergency incidents.”

    The spokesman said these procedures encompass everything from terrorism to gas leaks.

    He said: “The safety of children in our schools is paramount and we take any incidents extremely seriously.”

    It is not just the UK that is preparing for the worst, France, Spain and the USA have also got a drill in place.

    Gemma Watkins spoke with us and said her child is 7 and come hold from school and told her “we hid from a loose dog today, we had to turn over the table and be super quiet”.

    Gemma was shocked when she looked in her sons school bag and saw the letter explaining the lockdown procedure.

    Do you personally feel this is a good idea?

    Are you happy for your child to practice this drill?

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  • Man Jailed After Importing Child Sex Doll

    A Man Jailed After Importing Child Sex Doll. 

    The man who imported a childlike sex doll has been sentenced in the first case of its kind in Essex England. 
    Simon Glerum, 33, was arrested in January after Border Force officers intercepted a parcel from Hong Kong containing the 3ft 3ins (101cm) doll at Stansted Airport. 
    The box was labelled as a mannequin and also came with items including a body stocking and hair brush.

     The doll of which was anatomically correct. 
    Essex Police officers arrested Glerum at his home in Bridge Street, Great Bardfield, and items including a computer were seized. 

    A laptop was found to contain 21 images or films of child abuse of Category A (the most serious); four of Category B; five of Category C; and eight prohibited images. These had been downloaded from the internet. 
    Officers also found a fictional story describing the sexual abuse of a child. 
    He appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court on August 23 and admitted importing the sex doll, three of making indecent images of a child and one count of possession of a prohibited image. 
    He was sentenced on Friday the 29th September to a 12 month suspended sentence for each of the five counts that will run concurrently, a five year sexual harm prevention order, complete a sex offender treatment programme and 20 days in rehabilitation. The doll has been forfeited and will be destroyed.

     of a child and one count of possession of a prohibited image. 
    A police spokesperson said: “The importation of childlike sex dolls can be an indication of offences being committed against children, as in this case, where images of child abuse were found on Glerum’s computer. 

    “We will always investigate and deal with such cases robustly and have made a number of arrests. One is currently going through the courts. 
    “We work closely with Border Force, National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecution Service in our commitment to prevent the importation of these obscene items and to protect children from harm.” 
    Anyone with information on someone who has imported a childlike sex doll is asked to contact police on 101. 

     

  • New Text Scam Going Round- Be Careful

    Most people have a friend called Sarah, which is why people need to be particularly alert to this latest scam.

    Fraudsters are texting this message, which generally reads something along the lines of: “Hi its Sarah. I need you to do me a favour if possible. I had a small accident and broke my fibula and left elbow or other injuries. Can you text me back once get this message x”
    The message may seem plausible, but replying could see concerned friends being asked for £20 by the scammers.


    The texts are a variation of a scam which did the rounds last year, in which victims initially receive a text message from a loved-one which says they are in hospital and that the only way that they can make contact is via text message.

    The text usually reads: “Mum i did try and phone from some else phone signal is really bad, there has been a terrible car accident. I’m in the ICU ward in hospital my phone ain’t switching on and needs charging. I’m on this mobile number please make sure you reply to this number, my friend didn’t make it he died before we got to hospital and his sister’s fighting for her life.

    Mum i had my seatbelt on, i’ve got a head injury but i’m ok. Going into Xray to be seen, please make sure you message me back and don’t phone cause mobile phones aren’t allowed here so please text in case I’m in there. I will go outside and phone you mum its really bad i need you to do me favour before it’s too late, as soon as you get my text please reply by text i need you to do me a favour mum, time is running out and i need you to do something mum”.

    A spokesman from Action Fraud, which is warning about the scam, said: “These messages can quite easily evolve into more elaborate scenarios and are designed to play on your emotions and get you to react quickly without thinking.
    “If you receive one of these text messages, don’t send any codes or money, delete it and report it to us.
    “If a family member was hospitalised, they would never be forced to use a mobile phone that required credit to activate it.

    “To report a fraud and receive a police crime reference number, call Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or use our online fraud reporting tool.”

     

  • Baby Sleep Aids Killing Babies, Don’t Use This Product

    British supermarkets such as Tesco’s, high street retailers and online firms are selling baby sleep positioners despiteserious health warnings, while hundreds of listings were still on eBay despite the firm vowing to remove them from their site.

    British supermarkets, high street retailers and online firms are selling the products, also called “nests” or “anti-roll” cushions, despite warnings that they could cut off a baby’s oxygen and causing 12 known deaths in the US.

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reminding parents and caregivers not to put babies in sleep positioners. These products—sometimes also called “nests” or “anti-roll” products—can cause suffocation (a struggle to breathe) that can lead to death.The two most common types of sleep positioners feature raised supports or pillows (called “bolsters”) that are attached to each side of a mat, or a wedge to raise a baby’s head. The positioners are intended to keep a baby in a specific position while sleeping and are intended for infants under 6 months old.

    To reduce the risk of sleep-related infant deaths, including accidental suffocation and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants sleep on their backs, positioned on a firm, empty surface. This surface should not contain soft objects, toys, pillows, or loose bedding.

    Safety Advice for Putting Babies to Sleep.

    NEVER use infant sleep positioners. Using this type of product to hold an infant on his or her side or back is dangerous.

    NEVER put pillows, blankets, loose sheets, comforters, or quilts under a baby or in a cot. These products also can be dangerous. Babies don’t need pillows and adequate clothing—instead of blankets—can keep them warm.

    ALWAYS keep cots and sleeping areas bare. That means you should also never put soft objects or toys in sleeping areas.

    ALWAYS place a baby on his or her back at night and during nap time. An easy way to remember this is to follow the ABCs of safe sleep: “Alone on the Back in a bare Crib.”

     

  • Free Legoland Tickets If You’ve Got One Of These Names

    Fancy free tickets to Legoland this October? You might just be in luck! 

    If you, or your baby has the same name as one of the Lego Ninjango movie’s characters, the Legoland resort in Windsor is giving away free tickets, eeek how exciting .

    The names aren’t too common though , but if your baby is called:

    • Lloyd

    • Kai

    • Jay

    • Nya

    • Zane

    •  Cole

    You are in luck! The free tickets will be available from 13th October, when the film is released, to the 30th October. 

    Finally, don’t forget to take along proof of identity for you or your child if you are going to take advantage of this offer. According to the terms and conditions, the offer only applies to the person with the same name as the character, so you will still need to buy a full price ticket even if your tot gets in for free. 

    It is probably cheaper to change your name than a ticket to get in lol

     

  • The 10 Commandments of the Single Mum

    The 10 Commandments of the Single Mum 

    Being a Single Mum isn’t just about chain-smoking cheap fags while you lean on a broken-down picket fence as the madly overgrown grass tickles your knickers, bitching to your neighbour about the 15 fathers of your 20 different kids and moaning about the pathetic benefits you had to lie and cheat to get.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that – God knows we’ve all had our moments – but there’s more to being a Single Mum than that one-dimensional, woefully outdated stereotype suggests.

    ​These days, loads of Single Mums are happy to be winging it on their own: doing their best for the kids while revelling in their freedom, independence and hard-won custody of the remote control.

    Single Mums don’t have to argue about parenting stuff with their clueless other halves, they don’t have to be constantly disappointed by his no-shows at kids’ concerts, they don’t have to take him into consideration when ordering a Chinese takeaway – and they don’t have to feel bad about loving (nearly) every minute of it.

    I often get the warm glow of ever-so-slightly smug contentment when I spy a warring couple looking fed up and frustrated, bickering over their baby’s head about who had the least sleep last night and whose turn it is to push the pram and WHY CAN’T YOU JUST BLOODY LEARN TO CHANGE A NAPPY, THEN?

    Because, as a good Single Mum friend of mine so eloquently puts it, ‘There are millions of Single Mums out there – and most of them are married.’

    ​When it comes to winging it on one’s own, there appears to be only one Golden Rule: there are no rules.

    And considering there isn’t a Single Mum-ifesto, Declaration of Indy-Mum-nence or, indeed, The Single Mumna Carta (ENOUGH! Ed) out there, here are 10 commandments I cobbled together earlier:​​

    ​

    1. Thou shalt not badmouth thine Ex

    Or at least not in front of the kids. Yes, even if thine Ex hast been a bit of a dick.

    2. Thou shalt give it thy best shot at being friends with thine Ex – even if thou canst not stand the guy

    Bite your tongue and think of the kids. And the maintenance payments.

    3. Thou shalt not let the superior, sneery judginess of others get thee down

    They’re probably jealous of thy comparative freedom, after all, stuck in their small lives of quiet desperation as they undoubtedly are.

    4. Thou shalt not give a rat’s arse about thy so-called friends who let thee down when thou needst them most

    Thou findst out who thy real friends are when thou becomest an SM and thou’ll be surprised by the ones who fall by the wayside when the shit really hits ye fan.

    5. Thou shalt not eat thy feelings – particularly if thy feelings are made out of Lindor Balls

    Or at least not every night. And anyway, family blocks of Cadbury’s Fruit ‘n’ Nut art way cheaper – and even go some way towards thy five a day.

    6. Thou shalt rest assured that this fresh hell of half-term, too, shalt pass

    School holidays can be a tough time for ye olde Single Mums – but also prime fun time for McDonald’s, duvet days and Spongebob marathons (which thou canst easily snooze through, no worries).

    7. Thou shalt be proud and revel in thy new-found status as A Single Mum

    And thank thy lucky stars thou gotst out of thine own crap relationship, because now thou canst really love and look after those kids properly without some pretender moaning and droning on in ye background about how tired / poor he is.

    8. Thou shalt resist temptation to compare thyself with other mums

    Thy kids will do enough of that for thee. And it won’t be pretty. So give thyself a break and remind thyself how utterly marvellous thou art – thy kids are still alive!

    9. Thou shalt almost expect married maters at thy school gates to mistake thee for a threat and eye thee with suspicion

    They do this because they can’t imagine anything worse than being a Single Mum – but thou knowst better (and have they seen their husbands lately?! Ha! As if!)

    10. Thou shalt think of ye perks of being a Single Mum when life at ye coalface gets tough (from approx. 6:30 am-8:30 pm daily)

    Throughout the tears and tantrums (mostly thine own, usually), thou willst maybe get a sec to think about the movie / cake / bath / bottle of gin thou willst immerse thyself in when thine Ex takes the kids off your hands every second weekend.

    11. Thou shalt get in amongst it on thine own local dating scene when – and, indeed, if – thou art ready and feeling up for ’t

    Elite Singles is apparently fantastic for meeting like-minded potential love interests. If, however, ’tis only a quick bunk-up thou art after, try Tinder.

    12. Thou shalt embrace ye sisterhood of single mums

    And bin thine own prejudices. For united we stand, divided we fall etc.

    13. Girl, thou shalt put thy records on regularly and play thy favourite songs

    Show thy kids how in charge thou art by playing great songs about strong, cool women. I Am Woman by Helen Reddy springs to mind. Great for defusing tension, breakfast kitchen dancing and helping thy kids’ feminist principles and musical tastes develop correctly (ie mirroring thine own).

    14. Thou shalt accept thou did playest thy part in the split

    Thou art big enough to take half the responsibility – thou art a grown up, after all. And anyway, thine Ex started it – nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah. Now where wast thou? Yea, verily, acting all grown up…

    Oops – went up to 14. Maths never was a strong point. Sorry.

    Anyway, armed with this timely guide to what to expect when you’re expecting to become a Single Mum, you and your no-doubt gorgeous kids can live Happily Ever After, unfettered by social stigma or hand brake husbands. Now let thy joy be unconfined!

    Mink Elliott is an author and proud Single Mum.

    https://www.howtobeasinglemum.com

    @minkelliott

  • Greater Anglia Don’t Cater For Infants

    A lady named Loren Jackson has taken to Facebook to share her disgust at her treatment when travelling on Greater Anglia trains and how Greater Anglia Don’t Cater For Infants .

    Jackson said:

    “How ‘Greater Anglia’ expect a 5 month old to travel when we have paid for reserved seats! She is balanced on top of suitcases!

    Also had to stand in the toilet so my son could stand 👍 so not only did we wait at the platform for at least twenty minutes which was empty until the over sold carriage arrived, only to be barged out-of-the-way by fully grown adults whilst pushing a baby in a pram and two young toddlers at my side, one who was almost pushed down on to the tracks between the train and platform.. to be the first waiting but last person on after the conductor told me unless she was folded down and balanced in the luggage hold of the train, we wouldn’t be allowed on to the train.

    Not one person gave up their seat or even moved their handbag from the floor for two-three year old boys.

    When we went to complain we were given a small leaflet and told to post it, nobody was interested in listening then.

      

    Please share Greater Anglia should be ashamedof this ladies treatment.

     

  • Implant Warning Birth Control

    Implant Warning Birth Control

    A lady named Kelly King has taken to Facebook to warn others of her experience with the Implant Nexplanon.

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    ” *Warning graphic*

    For those of you interested in the birth control bar that goes in your arm nexplanon. DO NOT GET IT!!

    Not only has it made me literally crazy! They can’t even find it to get it out of my arm!

    I sat in a chair while 3 doctors/nurses dug in my arm searching for it for over an hour. After an X-ray and more digging to come up empty-handed still, I am now left with it still in my arm, stitches, swollen and a bruised arm along with another appointment to have it surgically removed!

    The side effects of this birth control include depression and mood swings and let me tell you what I thought I’ve been going insane this whole time! DO NOT GET THIS BIRTH CONTROL!”.

    There have been similiar stories regarding the implant  but equally many success stories, if you already have it don’t panic, if you are at all concerned please contact your GP.

     

     

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  • Health Warning Ibruprofen And Chicken Pox

    **WARNING IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION**** DON’T GIVE IBUPROFEN BASED MEDICATION FOR CHICKEN POX **

    Ibuprofen is given to help pain and fever , however in the case of chicken pox It can be very dangerous .

    It can cause the infection to go deeper into the skin and in serious cases it can cause sepsis. As we all know sepsis can be fatal and kill. So for this reason it is advised that any products like nurofen that contain Ibuprofen are avoided when a child has chicken pox.
    Things that can help are:

     
    Paracetamol 

    Antihistamine like piriton for itching 

    Calamine lotion (although this can dry out the spots too quickly)

    Keep child cool 

    Trim childs fingernails and keep them clean to prevent from scratching itchy fluid-filled blisters

    Lots of fluids 

    Luke warm baths few times a day for the first few days.

    For parents that wish to pay privately in UK you can have your child vaccinated , if you’re interested then contact your GP an ask for further information …

    *PLEASE SHARE LETS GET THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION OUT THERE *

     

  • Dentist Kills Girl Nothing Wrong With Her Teeth

    This story broke my heart, Her mum was told she needed dental treatment and so she believed the dentist.

    On the morning she had questions but the dentist had no time and rushed her and she never was given the answers she wanted or needed …

    Long story short the mum said only ten minutes later the emergency services had to be called and her beautiful little girl was declared dead not long after arriving at hospital.

    It has been a living hell for the mum and the dentist has prevented the truth to be told , money talks and it has prevented the facts of this innocent little girls death and instead it’s all been fabricated , the dentist sued anyone who dared to stand up and cover the story about the truth..

    Medical proof shows that there was absolutely nothing wrong with this precious little girls teeth and no need what so ever for her to have any procedures, she should be here today alive happy and healthy !

    The two names responsible for what happened that morning are Micheal Melason and David Russell Williams !!

    March 29th 2016 Daisy Lynn Torres was left unattended while completely sedated, this caused complications and this beautiful baby lost her life for NO reason autopsy showed her teeth were fine . 
    The mum has never got justice for her daughter because money talks and keeps people quiet so please share this and let people see these names responsible for causing her death.

    Carrying out a procedure that was never needed in the first place .
    Daisy Lynn Torres may you shine brightly in the midnight sky & know that one day hopefully justice WILL prevail And that your death will not be in vain.
    #JusticeForDaisy

    #BreakTheSilence