47 h. ago First picture of Air India crash victims killed alongside their young child

Akeel Nanawaba, 36, his partner Hanna Vorajee, 30, and their four-year-old daughter, Sarah were returning home from a five-day family celebration.

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4 d. ago ‘Parenthood is messy’: what it’s really like to raise a child – in pictures

Aware that social media paints an unrealistic picture of ‘perfect’ parenting, Kirsten Lewis spent 15 years capturing the raw reality of life with kids. Her message? Your children love you! Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Fury grows over the NHS staff who are turning away sick private school pupils

Wes Streeting (pictured) was urged to 'act swiftly' yesterday after a child was denied vital treatment because he goes to a private school.

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6 d. ago The Guardian view on child poverty: free school meals are a help, but not a panacea | Editorial

Giving lunch to more pupils is a good move – but poor nutrition points to deeper problems that ministers must faceIt was Ellen Wilkinson, education minister in the Attlee government, who announced in 1946 that free school dinners would be introduced, along with free school milk, at the same time as child benefit. No doubt Rachel Reeves, who has a picture of Wilkinson on the wall of her office, is aware of this – and also that the Treasury subsequently decided the policy was unaffordable. The meals were subsidised instead.Despite these initial charges, and later price rises, poorer children did gain, and keep, an entitlement to free school meals. The announcement last week that this is being extended in England to all those whose parents or carers claim universal credit – rather than restricted to families with incomes lower than £7,400 – should be welcomed by all objectors to child poverty. Being assured of a hot lunch in the middle of the school day makes pupils’ lives be...

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1 week ago Fears for 'troubled' child of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt pictured unable to stand on wild night out... weeks after near

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's troubled child faced yet another set back this weekend, seen being physically held up by friends during a wild night of partying in Los Angeles...

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4 w. ago My daughter was so desperate to be a mum at 26 that she delayed life

Sammy-Jo Brandon was so desperate to be a mother that she delayed life-saving cancer treatment to undergo the first stage of IVF. (Pictured with a friend's child.)

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