Ann Barnes, who chairs Kent Police Authority, urged parents to make sure they knew where their children were following the disturbances in the Medway towns.

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Following that incident local authority bosses started legal action with a view to removing all three children from their parents' care.

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However, eight out of parents said their children were playing the same amount of sport or less during school hours following the Games and its results suggested many pupils do less than the recommended two hours of sport a week.

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The appeal by PHW for parents to make sure their children are vaccinated against measles has taken an increasingly urgent tone, following the death of Mr Williams at his home in Port Tennant Road in Swansea.

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To be blunt, the cause of distress for many parents is ignorance or perhaps even greed: putting all their 529 assets into equities rather than following traditional portfolio diversification into different asset classes such as bonds, which have performed very well as equities have swooned.

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