Family News Home Archive for May, 2008

IF change is as good as a holiday then why do my family holidays invariably end up in the same place? If we go overseas, we go to New York. If we go to the beach, we go to Rosedale on the NSW south coast. If we go camping, we go to Treachery on the [...]

A SIZZLING line-up of companies has been signed up to provide guests at a pioneering Welsh holiday village with local seasonal food.
Now just weeks from completion, having been 10 years in the making, the ￡110m project’s backers say Bluestone is about to transform the flagging Pembrokeshire economy, to which it will bring 700 jobs, 350,000 [...]

Holiday park operator Haven has revealed a huge increase in the number of people booking UK holidays this year due to a combination of the strong Euro and surging oil prices that have made European breaks much more expensive.
Hemel Hempstead, UK (PRWEB) May 22, 2008 — With the price of oil breaking records on both [...]

Both at home and abroad, prices rise sharply for family breaks starting on May 24 compared with those beginning a week earlier, despite a government demand for “voluntary narrowing” of such price differences four years ago.
Family groups and parents reacted angrily to the increases, accusing tour operators of taking advantage of those who cannot take [...]

While Peterborough is doing better than some other areas, 15,000 people in the city and county still don’t have a family doctor.
“We still have patients that we need to find room in a family practice for. The challenges that we’ve had in terms of finding appropriate space (for family health teams) are beginning to be [...]

THE surviving Family of slain SPO4 Asterio Butron would receive a total of P1.4 million in benefits from the Philippine National Police (PNP), aside from a monthly pension for his wife and a scholarship program for his three children.
Chief Supt. Ronald Roderos personally informed Butron’s family of the benefits when he visited the policeman’s wake [...]

As the presidential campaign debate over health care intensified, I heard from seven different friends with the same problem: They had loved ones who had recently moved and, like many others across the U.S., could not find a primary care doctor. Three were in Washington where, according to 2006 data from the Department of Health, [...]

For most women, there are few more terrifying words to hear than: “You have breast cancer.” Unless, of course, it’s being told the recommended treatment is having both breasts lopped off, followed by round after round of chemotherapy.
But seven years after Myrtle Lewis had a double-mastectomy and 11 lymph nodes removed, followed by six months [...]

We have finally broken free from the corsets of Victorian parenting.  According to a new survey we now put our kids first on holidays – no more ‘seen and not heard’!  In possibly the largest survey of its type, over 7000 UK mothers bared their soul on travelling as a family, letting children have cake [...]

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