Presiding Officer Alex Fergusson said the children born in Scotland on 1 July 1999 would be at the heart of the birthday celebrations.

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At Styal prison, she will be able to live in the unit with her daughter, who was born on 3 November and who suffers from a chromosomal abnormality.

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Briers was born in London on 14 January, 1934 and was inspired to be an actor by his mother, a music and drama teacher.

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It also recommended that follow-up research takes place on children born using the new techniques, and that the donor should be thought of in the same way as a tissue donor, meaning they would have no rights over the child.

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None of this seemed to be in Mr Dube's future when he was born, the sickly first son of a single mother on a run-down farm in East Transvaal.

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The serious case reviews recommended that a specific action plan should be put in place so that some babies can be on the social services' radar before they are born.

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