Father Knifed to death in front of his child

A young father was fatally knifed in front of his three-year-old daughter at a Croydon bus stop.

He was taking her to hospital to meet her newly born brother, tragically the man died at the same hospital his new baby son was born in.

50 detectives and nearly 100 police officers are investigating the death.

An argument was thought to have provoked the attack involving another man in the early evening on Thursday. He was taken by ambulance to Mayday Hospital and pronounced dead less than an hour later.

A 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder in the early hours of yesterday morning remained in custody at a south London police station last night.

Police said that they were keen to talk to two teenage boys who had been at the bus stop. “They are described as black, aged between 15 and 20 years old, of slim build and wearing hooded tops. It’s crucial we discover who they are.”

One resident said: “This poor lady has just given birth. She was in hospital sitting there waiting for him to turn up to let their son meet their daughter for the first time. She now has to deal with this poor three-year-old daughter, a new baby and the loss of her partner. I hope she gets the help she will need.”

         

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Cheryl Cole’s baby plan

Cheryl is planning a Caribbean love nest for June with husband Ashley Cole so she can get pregnant, according to friends. Cheryl Cole, 25, has openly said she wants a baby soon.

X Factor judge and Girl’s Aloud singer Cheryl Cole has booked a month in the Caribbean to fall pregnant. The time has been allocated so the pair can, “Unwind” but friends are saying it’s time-out to try and conceive a baby.

Cheryl apparently is so focused on conceiving that she is thought to want Ashley to keep his vitamin and folic acid intake high. Which can aid performance on the pitch as well as the bedroom.

The former 7st vegetarian will be eating meat, shellfish and greens to put on a stone in weight. She’s also quitting alcohol , cigarettes and coffee to aid her crusade.

         

Jordan Shodeke convicted in Baby kidnapping

Jordan Shodeke, a fitness instructor who stalked and then raped a woman then kidnapped her baby son, was jailed for 13-and-a-half years today.

Jordan’s actions were after the female victim charity worker befriended him and tried to find him employment.

The Court heard he suddenly “threw her over his shoulder”, imprisoned her in her home and then forced himself upon her. This was after she agreed to a drink as reward for her kindness.

Karen Holt, prosecuting said: “He put his hands around her neck for several minutes until she began … to lose consciousness.”

After the attack, he tracked her down again, “Called her incessantly”, even turning up at her work and repeatedly threatened to hurt or kill her. A week after she gave birth to her son, he confronted her in the street, grabbed the baby and yanked him from his pushchair.

He then punched the young mother to the ground, hit her pregnant sister in the stomach and then turned on her brother-in-law when he rushed to their aid.

After fleeing with the screaming infant he phoned, threatening to throw him into a canal, but ended up dumping him in the dingy stairwell of a block of flats instead.

The whole ordeal left her so traumatized she fled abroad to make a new life for herself and her son.

The court heard his arrest prompted a police probe which found he had subjected a second woman to a “lengthy course of harassment”, bombarding her with up to 50 texts and 100 phone calls a day, visiting her work and repeatedly threatening her family.

Jordan Shodeke, 26, of Kennington, South London, claimed his first victim had consented to sex, and then, like the second woman he stalked, had lied repeatedly.

But he was convicted of rape, false imprisonment, actual bodily harm, kidnap, common assault, and causing fear of violence by harassment to his two victims between December 2006 and October 2007.

Passing sentence, Judge Nicholas Philpot said while “the probability of further offences against women is high” there was still not enough evidence to conclude he posed “a significant risk to members of the public”.

He said the offences against the woman he raped involved “planning, abduction, detention and use of force” as well as a period of harassment.

“I think it likely that in time, perhaps a long time, she will get over this experience but the impact statement discloses that for the moment she has been seriously affected in her relationships with men.

“She has felt obliged to make a new life abroad,” he added.

         

LifeCheck from NHS Choices

Parents can see how their baby is developing and get advice, help and reassurance with a new questionnaire available online from NHS Choices. Though the website warns this should not replace contact with GP’s and other health professionals.

NHS Early Years LifeCheck is for parents and carers of babies aged between five and eight months.

Early Years LifeCheck, is targeted at parents of babies aged between five and eight months old and poses questions to establish how well a baby is sleeping, feeding, playing, developing and how parents are managing these key areas.

There’s also:

• NHS Teen LifeCheck - for young people aged between 12 and 15 years

• NHS Mid-life LifeCheck – for people aged between 45 and 60 years

Parents have the option to find out more information or to be given further guidance.

The Government initiative is designed to address health inequalities. Local authorities have been awarded funding to promote it.

To access the questionnaire go to www.nhs.uk/lifecheck

         

Pregnancy, Botox and Dysport are a toxic mix

Australia doctors are issuing warnings to pregnant women about Botox and other cosmetic treatments using with botulinum toxin.

Health authorities in Australia have reported that a pregnant woman treated with a Botox rival named, “Dysport” birthed a baby who was deaf and blind.

Many botulinum toxin treatments are approved for use in the U.S. Both Botox and Dysport are made with botulinum toxin Type A, approved for treatment of conditions including blepharospasm (spasm of the eyelids), severe primary axillary hyperhydrosis (sweating excessively) and cervical dystonia (severe neck muscle spasms).

Not currently approved as a treatment in the U.S, Dysport manufacturers Ipsen are seeking U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval. They are hoping to be able to market the drug. They are also seeking approval for Reloxin, a wrinkle treatment product.

The Australian Federal Health and Ageing Department released documents last month detailing the case of a baby born deaf and blind in 2005 after the mother was given facial cosmetic injections of Dysport in the first few weeks of pregnancy.

         

Google hits a baby deer

Google’s, “Street View” car kills a baby deer.

There’s lots of controversy about Google’s street photography as it builds up photography for its Google Maps ’street view’.

The Google Lat Long blog gives their take on the incident,

“The driver was understandably upset, and promptly stopped to alert the local police and the Street View team at Google. The deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived. The police explained to our driver that, sadly, this was not an uncommon occurrence in the region - the New York State Department of Transportation estimates that 60,000-70,000 deer collisions happen per year in New York alone — and no police report needed to be filed.”

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/01/oh-deer-street-view-and-road-safety.html

Google hits a baby deer on Five Points Road near Rush, New York.

In upstate New York, a street view car hits a baby deer on Five Points Road and then recorded the whole thing on Google Maps. The image went largely ignored until the, “Daily What” blog posted about the incident, sending floods of traffic, subsequently five street-level images have been removed.

         

Laughing Baby (2) YouTube video success

A YouTube, “Laughing Baby” video showing a baby girl crawling across a room to see the family dog has had nearly half a million hits.

Baby Lucy is caught on camera by her mother Jo as she plays with, “Nike” the dog.

The U.S baby crawls to Nike and lets it lick her face, laughing throughout the one minute clip.

The original, “Laughing Baby” uploaded in 2006 has been watched by more than 70 million people. William Nilsson, a Swedish child, is in his high chair being made to laugh by an unseen person, probably his father, making a, “Boo” noise.

When Queen Elizabeth visited the UK Google offices last year with the Duke of Edinburgh they both laughed at the video.

Queen Elizabeth was quoted as saying; “Lovely little thing isn’t it? Amazing a child would laugh like that.”

There are now over 40′000 laughing baby videos on YouTube.

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Michelle Obama pregnant?

Michelle Obama has been hotly searched online as rumors that the First Lady is pregnant have been published on the internet.

The White House has made no comment on the rumors.

The Obama’s already have two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, seven.

Perez Hilton, the celebrity blogger was the first to report that rumors are abound in Washington DC claiming a third Obama child might be on the way.

Hilton said: “This is completely unconfirmed and at this point just a ‘rumor’ but … we’re hearing the talk in DC is that Michelle Obama is pregnant.”

‘Could this be true????? It’d be happy news! Hopefully it’s a boy!’

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Images of Mrs Obama drinking from a wine glass with her husband have been published, but it’s difficult to judge if the liquid in her glass is alcoholic.

America’s ‘mom-in-chief’, has previously said that she and her husband Barack do not plan on having another baby.

         

Tom And Katie Expecting Second Baby

The latest celebrity gossip is that Tom Cruise and his misses Katie Holmes are expecting their second child.

The pair was photographed leaving the celeb hangout the Ivy restaurant in LA on January 21st, where Tom placed his hands on Katie’s stomach and they stared into each other’s eyes.

According to OK Magazine “the couple have another baby on the way”.

“It was identical to how Tom used to stand with Katie when she was pregnant with Suri,” one witness told the tabloid. “And the way they looked at each other! You could see the love in their eyes, and there was a feeling that they were sharing something very special at that moment.””

Although a Cruises’s rep Jeff Raymond denies that a sibling is on the way for Suri, 2 - OK! Insists it is only a matter of time.

“Tom would love to have another baby!” a friend of Tom’s told the magazine “There’s nothing that gives him more pleasure than his role as a father.”

         

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