Well here it is – your chance to win your very own copy of Getsmile!! You’ve all seen the fantastic smilies that we use on the forums and in chat, and now you can win the program that will give you over 1600 smilies, including 700 especially for MSN Messenger!! All you have to [...]
Madmums will be holding a quiz night every week. It will be on a Tuesday at 9pm in the bar! It will be a general knowledge quiz so there will be something in there for everyone. I hope you will all try to make it. It is a great laugh! I will also send out [...]
Alcohol destroys a baby’s brain cellsA drug may be able to reduce the damage caused to babies whose mothers drink heavily during pregnancy. Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) – for which there is no current treatment – is associated with problems such as abnormal growth and mental retardation. A team at Cornell University in the [...]
Getsmile, who kindly provide the smilies used in the forums and chat, are giving you the chance to win their software in our next Madmums competition. Unlike other smiley programmes, Getsmile does not contain any spyware, adware or additional programmes like toolbars. Its doesn’t slow down your PC and id doesn’t make hundreds of changes [...]
Just to let everyone know there will be a quiz tonight at 9pm in the bar. My brother doesnt know yet so I hope he hasnt got a poker game planned lol Hope to see youall there xxxxxxxxxx
Prematurity carries many health risksScientists believe giving pregnant women the hormone progesterone may reduce the risk of a premature birth. A team at Glasgow University are to test whether the hormone can prevent women going into labour too early. Around 50,000 babies are born too soon every year in the UK, and can suffer [...]
Chickens could be ordered inside if the virus reaches the UKPoultry farmers are being told to prepare to move their birds inside in case avian flu hits the UK. While it was not inevitable the virus would arrive, the risk had increased, Tony Blair’s spokesman said. EU farm ministers are meeting in Brussels to [...]
The Hill-Cannan family celebrated Henry’s christening recentlyA woman who was minutes away from having a hysterectomy after years of failing to conceive discovered she was pregnant after a routine test. Natasha Hill-Cannan, 33, had attempted to start a family for eight years, and had tried IVF without success. The mother from Ebbw Vale suffered [...]
Parental leave should be paid for three months, the IPPR suggestedThere is an annual 90,000 “baby gap” between the number of children women say they want and the number they have, a study suggests. There would be 13% more births each year if women actually had the number of babies they said they wanted [...]
The public should report bird deaths to the Defra helplineThe public and poultry keepers have been asked to be “extra vigilant” in reporting any deaths of birds as the presence of bird flu nears the UK. As France confirmed it had one case of the H5N1 avian flu virus, UK animal health minister Ben [...]