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[11 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]

Hmmm… well who said getting old means you have to dress like a granny anywway, but there is showing cleavage and there is showing cleavage!
Her TV career is on a definite high. But when it comes to Lorraine Kelly’s necklines, just how low can she go?
The presenter left little to the imagination as she showed off rather more of her decolletage than usual in a plunging white gown.
She was appearing at the Bafta Scotland Awards, in Glasgow,  where she collected the prize for most popular presenter.
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[4 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]

Her bump may not be showing yet, but Holly Willoughby certainly had that pregnancy glow as she left her London home today.
The television presenter looked positively radiant as she made her way out wearing simple black trousers and cream blouse.
Her baby news was revealed in front of millions of television viewers as she hosted the Xtra Factor on Saturday night.

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[24 Sep 2008 | No Comment | ]

Tens of thousands of infants are sick after drinking tainted baby milk. But this isn’t an ordinary health disaster - the authorities colluded with the companies who deliberately contaminated their products and failed to warn the public.
Disaster befell the parents of Jiao Zizhou because, poor as they were, they could afford baby milk. What they could not afford were hospital fees. Visitors to China often look at its diversity, its grand civic buildings, its sweatshops, its new rich, its desperate poor, …

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[22 Sep 2008 | No Comment | ]

Celebrities may seem to have a cushy lifestyle - working when they want and doing the work they want to do. BUT for the price they pay is it really worth it?
Take Jenniffer Lopez (J-Lo to her fans) - she’s been slated for having a flabby chest/looking fat/overweight. The woman only had twins five minutes ago…give us a break!
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[7 Sep 2008 | No Comment | ]

Jayne Jones, 38, saw at a routine ultra-sound scan when she was 27 weeks’ pregnant that her baby was growing in her abdomen, on the omentum – the layers of fat that cover the bowel.
Almost all such foetuses die within weeks, even days, of conception and only one similar case has ever been reported in Britain.
Ten days after the scan Mrs Jones was rushed to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth by her husband Graham because she had collapsed in pain.
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[11 Aug 2008 | No Comment | ]

News that detoxing is potentially dangerous will have caused ripples of panic among those who rely on it for inner cleansing and occasional inch loss. Dawn Page, a 52-year-old mother of two from Oxfordshire, made headlines when she received more than £800,000 after suffering permanent brain damage while on a detox diet that instructed her to reduce her salt intake and consume large amounts of water.
Long before this case, reputable dieticians were questioning the effectiveness and safety of detoxing. A detox diet can last anything from 48 hours to …

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[8 Aug 2008 | No Comment | ]

Before the publication of her novel The Well of Loneliness in 1928, the writer Radclyffe Hall, a lesbian from an upper-class family in Bournemouth, warned her editor that the book would require a mammoth commitment from its publisher. “I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world,” she announced portentously.
“So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.”
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[5 Aug 2008 | No Comment | ]

When Lulu appeared in yesterday’s paper, it was a sharp reminder that women of a certain age should avoid miniskirts. She might look fantastic everywhere else, but there are not many women over 40 who can get away with flaunting their knees. It’s a minefield for women to know when they’ve outgrown some fashion trends.
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[5 Aug 2008 | No Comment | ]

A newborn baby was saved from kidney failure after a paediatrician built a dialysis machine for her in his garage.
Millie Kelly was given little chance of surviving her first weeks when she suffered kidney failure after a lifesaving operation. At 6lb 2oz (3.3kg), she was too small to use the NHS dialysis machine that would do the work of her failed kidneys. It was not until Malcolm Coulthard, a paediatrician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, built the machine that she began to recover.
Millie is now a fit two-year-old …

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[5 Aug 2008 | No Comment | ]

Five years, 17 countries, four continents, countless conversations. The two-part documentary by the New York-based film-maker Jennifer Fox, Flying - Confessions of a Free Woman, which screens on BBC Four next week, is a modern epic. It follows Fox’s quest to establish common ground between women the world over, and at the same time, by following her own story over those five years, examining what it means to be a “modern woman”.
She and her subjects, from outcast widows in India to prostitutes in Cambodia, as well as her “girlfriends” …