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<Slug>020 PARENTING VOX</Slug>
<TEXT>Parenting classes and an NHS information service are among new Government
measures for mums and dads.

The scheme aims to offer new parents more practical help on caring for their
babies.

Families of under-fives will also be able to pick up a voucher for 100 pounds
to exchange for parenting classes.

But these mums at a toddler group in Suffolk fear it might just be a gimmick
to mask cuts in other areas:

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<TEXT>Lifeboats, coastguard helicopters and a Royal Navy warship are involved in a major search for a missing fishing boat off the Dorset coast.

The Purbeck Isle and its three-man crew haven't been seen since leaving Weymouth yesterday morning.

The same boat had to be rescued by lifeboats less than 18 months ago.
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<TEXT>Facebook will make a number of people instant millionaires later, when the company launches on the stock market.

The social networking site's shares will cost 38 dollars - or 24 pounds - making the firm worth more than 100 billion dollars.
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<TEXT>More than a quarter of a million pounds is set to be invested in a Portishead golf course...

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 intend to develop it into 9 hole golf course for the local community, a teaching facility and a shop.
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<TEXT>A North Somerset man's successfully cycled more than fourteen hundred miles across three European countries for charity.

68 year old Alan Blythe and pal Martin went from Gibraltar to his home town of Wedmore ... 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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