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A school play being performed in a village hall in Leicestershire was cut short after the audience of parents clapped too loudly. The Sun reported that 'The Jungle Book' had to be halted when applause triggered a noise-limiter which cut the power in the village of Waltham-on-the-Wolds. Safety guidelines for children using trampolines are being ignored, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents warned, after a new study reported in The Guardian found that four out of ten children injured when trampolining are so badly hurt that they require hospital operations.
A school play being performed in a village hall in Leicestershire was cut short after the audience of parents clapped too loudly. The Sun reported that 'The Jungle Book' had to be halted when applause triggered a noise-limiter which cut the power in the village of Waltham-on-the-Wolds.

Safety guidelines for children using trampolines are being ignored, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents warned, after a new study reported in The Guardian found that four out of ten children injured when trampolining are so badly hurt that they require hospital operations.

The Times reported that a four-year-old boy sparked a massive police air and ground search before being found safely asleep under his stepfather's Jeep in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset.

The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is expecting a baby of her own in January - conceived naturally. Louise, who made headlines at her birth in 1978, recently left her job as a nursery nurse, and told the Daily Express, 'I loved working with children, but the pay was terrible.' She became a postwoman.

Guilt-stricken working parents who pander to their children's pleas for junk food could be to blame for creating an unhealthy generation, Anthony Worrall Thompson (who??) said in the Daily Express.