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• Magazine Amendment
  Apologies from the Family Time Editors.
• Motherly love 'does breed confidence'
  Being lavished with affection by your mum as a young child makes you better able to cope with the stresses and strains of adult life, say researchers.
• Link between inactivity and obesity queried
  Researchers have challenged the assumption that a lack of exercise causes children to put on weight.
• City Centre Cycle Race
  Get on your bike and compete in a series of bicycle races on Sunday 29 August 2010In partnership with Cycling Development West Midlands, and Born to Bike, we are holding a day of cycle racing in Lichfield on Sunday 29 August 2010.
• Budget: Osborne's 'tough' package puts VAT up to 20%
  Chancellor George Osborne increased VAT from 17.
• George Osborne outlines detail of £6.2bn spending cuts
  Chancellor George Osborne has outlined plans to cut £6.

Primark to stop selling children's padded bikini tops

High street goliath Primark has today announced that it is to stop selling it's range of padded bikini tops for girls as young as seven after it was accused they sexualised young girls.