Email your MP about child poverty - it takes less than two minutes
ACCORDING to a Press Association report, the number of children in families living on benefits has increased by 170,000 over the past year, with child poverty growing in affluent as well as traditionally affected areas. The Campaign to End Child Poverty reports a "staggering" two million British children now have no parent in work. It warned the number of children in families without jobs was

Help find Madeleine McCann and other missing children
MUM bloggers are being asked to help publicise this video in the hunt for Madeleine McCann. As the appeal slips further from the top of news agendas, the hope is that some momentum can be maintained. The video is from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. If you are interested in learning more about other missing children in the UK, and how you can help, please also check out Missingkids.co.uk.

Twin Tuesday: Jedward are just the latest twins to rock the X Factor!
2009: 2008: These girls later competed for a Eurovision place. 2007: Oh my! 2006: Imaginatively called...The Twins Blame these: Can anyone think of any more? And can you tell me which of these class acts I have worked with? :)

Back but shattered
THANK YOU again for all the good wishes before we went to The Bahamas. If you are in any way interested, we are now back and loving the various delights of being at home - rain, sorting out car tax, gas leaks, terrible wind, that type of thing. Yeah, I know. Possibly too much information. I hope to post a

Just want to make my voice heard: I won't be buying the Mail again
PAUL usually blogs about online journalism while Becky blogs about cakey buns. This week, their excellent blogs were closely connected for the first and possibly last time as they both took time to ponder the appalling story of how a journalist ripped into a popular young performer  on the day before his funeral. How 'organised' was the Jan