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A taste of luxury in lovely Lancashire

THE one lesson I have learned about travel is to listen to the experts, so when a number of people warned me of the horrors of the M6 north on a Friday night there seemed to be only one course of action – to take the day off.Read

My Holly’s so relaxed when she is having a massage

MUM Michelle Ryan is in no doubt that her baby Holly, who is four months old, enjoys the massage.Read

Baby massage clinics a success in Birmingham

IT is a room full of contented smiles. Mums are beaming down at their babies – while their babies look contentedly back.Read

Rubery children create computer game

COMPUTER games have long been held up as the prime example of children wasting time but a project in Birmingham has been showing how youngsters can learn from them.Read

Delving into an evil past

TERRY Deary is waxing lyrical about King Henry VIII.Read

Celebrity choses surrogacy to have another child

CELEBRITIES always seem to be hitting the headlines with reports about their desire to have children or their dramatic ways of obtaining them.Read

I joined Weight Watchers - and never left!

WHEN mum Jo Williams spotted the pounds creeping on after having her first baby she knew where to turn – because she had twice before shifted the inches with Weight Watchers.Read

Shakespeare comedy tours schools and delights youngsters

MORE than 100 children are shouting ‘they are over there’ and pointing madly towards the back of the school hall.Read

How to shape up the military way

A NEW fitness class in Solihull is putting people through their paces.Read

Baby Ruby wins fight for survival

BABY Ruby Hope’s name says it all.Read

Suzanne Vega: I can't remember Brum gigs

AMERICAN singer songwriter Suzanne Vega is having problems remembering Birmingham. She is due to play the city’s Town Hall this summer in a benefit gig for a charity which helps street children in South America and is looking forward to coming back to the city. Only she is more than a little hazy on the last time she played here.Read

Jimmy Osmond talks about his role in the musical Chicago

AS one of the cleanest living performers in showbusiness it may seem strange that Jimmy Osmond is cast as the wheeler dealer lawyer Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago.Read

Young readers putting age issues under the spotlight

MORE than 120 youngsters from five Birmingham schools will today lock horns to debate whether or not books should carry recommended ages on their covers.Read

Jodie slims down against the odds

MUM’S the word for Jodie Underhill who successfully shifted seven stone in weight, despite having two children during her diet.Read

Midwives are starting to realise that doulas can provide a different type of care – and are not trying to take over

DEBBIE Green may be about to hit 50 but that was no reason for her not to change careers and train to be a doula. In fact, it was the very reason.Read

Doula helps ease pain for Rebecca

WHEN mum Rebecca Lee wanted a home birth for her third baby she decided to enlist a bit of help – from a doula.Read

Walsall mum loses seven stone in weight

MUM’S the word for Jodie Underhill who successfully shifted seven stone in weight, despite having two children during her diet.Read

A power facial will give you that glow

MANY of us don’t like having our photos taken and when the pictures are revealing all that is wrong with your skin the results can be even more worrying.Read

Mod-ern take on 70s Who classic

IT HAS been nearly 40 years since The Who released their rock opera album Quadrophenia but this year it has finally reached the stage.Read

Review: Breakin' Convention at the Birmingham Hippodrome

ANYONE who thinks hip hop is just a couple of guys spinning on their heads should think again as Breakin’ Convention shows.Read

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