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<Slug>025 PARENTING MORTON</Slug>
<TEXT>(pilots in Middlesbrough, Camden in north London and High Peak, Derbyshire)

David Cameron insists free parenting classes are not a "nanny state" policy.

The PM's announced a number of initiatives aimed at helping families -
including texts and emails with practical advice such as how to bath your baby.

Initially the parenting classes will be piloted in 3 areas - but could be
extended throughout England and Wales.

Lorri Morton - from Ipswich - is a mother of three young children.

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<TEXT>A major search operation is continuing for a missing fishing boat and its three-man crew after it failed to return from a trip off the Dorset coast.

The Weymouth-based vessel has not been seen since leaving port yesterday morning.
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<TEXT>A Portishead golf course is getting a quarter of a million pound makeover...

It's after the council awarded the lease for the site in Nore Road to Golf For All Limited for the next 25 years..

They want to offer a 9 hole golf course for the local community, a teaching facility and a shop.
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<TEXT>The Olympic Flame touches down in Cornwall later.

It's being carried in a lantern aboard a golden British Airways jet...

An 8-thousand mile torch relay around the UK will then get underway on Saturday morning..
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<TEXT>A North Somerset man's back home after cycling more than fourteen hundred miles across three European countries for charity.

Alan Blythe who's 68  went from Gibraltar to his home town of Wedmore with his pal Martin... to raise money for Cancer Research UK, having lost his first wife to the disease.

It took them 22 days and they hope to raise a thousand pounds.
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