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Top 100 baby names for 2006
This year’s official babies’ names figures show that it’s all change for the girls with Olivia and Grace moving up to join Jessica in the top three. Jack, Thomas and Joshua continue to be the three most popular boy’s names, following the trend of previous years. Boys Girls 1. Jack 2. Thomas 3. Joshua 4. Oliver 5. Harry 6.…
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50% of people live near mum
10 December 1999 50% OF PEOPLE LIVE NEAR MUM RESEARCHERS conducting a social survey have squashed the myth that people are moving away from relatives at the end of the 20th century. Using the Population Trends information gathered by the Office of National Statistics, researcher Emily Grundy found: 50% of people live within half an…
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Having babies is getting safer
1 June 1999 Good news for all pregnant mums – having babies is getting safer. A report issued by the Office for National Statistics reveals that the infant mortality figures dropped from 6.1 per 1,000 in 1996 to 5.9 per 1,000 in 1997. This reflects a continuing downwards trend since in 1986 when there were…
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Baby boom triggered in the UK
8th June 2007 Britain is in the midst of a baby boom with official birth rates at a 26-year high. The figures released by the Office for National Statistics, reveal the average number of children per woman in England and Wales has risen to 1.87 – the highest rate since 1980. The boom is primarily due to increased…
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Tagged Demographics of France, Geography, Immigration, Office for National Statistics, Population, Robert Whelan
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Teenage pregnancy still rising
Rise in both the under-15 and 16-18 age groups and the announcement that £20m sex education package will be launched. Yet again we see politicians defending their strategy for reducing the number of teenage pregnancies after new figures showed that conception rates among under-16s had risen for the first time since 2002. The government insisted…
Safer Birth
Good news for all pregnant mums – having babies is getting safer. A report issued by the Office for National Statistics reveals that the infant mortality figures dropped from 6.1 per 1,000 in 1996 to 5.9 per 1,000 in 1997. This reflects a continuing downwards trend since in 1986 when there were 9.4 deaths per…
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More Dads Stay At Home To Raise Kids
Record numbers of fathers are staying home to care for young children, according to new figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The number of men choosing to be full time fathers has risen to 200,000 an increase of 83 per cent since records began in 1993. The number of full time mothers,…
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Tagged Divorce, Family, Father, Marriage, Office for National Statistics, Parental leave
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Sixty per cent of mothers tired all the time
28th September 2007 Women in their thirties are exhausted by the demands of a career, motherhood and running a home, researchers say. A study has found that these women believe this is their “hardest decade”, with many admitting to feeling stressed, missing sleep and skipping meals. And their forties, when those who have delayed motherhood must…
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Tagged Cent, eczema, headache, Marina Crook, Nicola Horlick, Office for National Statistics, Sleep, Tim, tiredness, Top Sante, Top Sante magazine, viral infection
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Top 20 names of 2004 (Scotland)
Top names in Scotland for 2004. Boys Girls 1. Lewis2. Jack 3. James 4. Cameron 5. Ryan 6. Liam 7. Jamie 8. Ben 9. Kyle 10. Callum 11. Matthew 12. Daniel 13. Connor 14. Adam 15. Dylan 16. Andrew 17. Aidan 18. Ross 19. Scott 20. Nathan 1. Emma2. Sophie 3. Ellie 4. Amy…
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Top 50 names of 2004 (England & Wales)
The top 50 names for boy’s and girls in 2004 Boys Girls 1. Jack 2. Joshua 3. Thomas 4. James 5. Daniel 6. Samuel 7. Oliver 8. William 9. Benjamin 10. Joseph 11. Harry 12. Matthew 13. Lewis 14. Ethan 15. Luke 16. Charlie 17. George 18. Callum 19. Alexander 20. Mohammed 21. Ryan 22.…
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