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My daughter wanted to leave home at 16 because I'd kicked her older brother out when he decided to challange my authority and he had a hostel place. He got a flat about 10 weeks later because he was 17 when he moved out and therefore classed as vulnerable but had to wait until he was 18 he was allowed a tenancy of his own flat. My daughter was in a hostel from the age of 16 until she was 18 but got her flat before she got pregnant and friends of hers who already had a baby ended up having to rent privately, so being pregnant or having a baby doesn't make as much difference as you have stated but age does. If the council had not had it's hands tied by central government re: building or purchasing new council stock and then being statutorily obliged to house the vulnerable, no one would have to jump through these hoops to get what is a fundamental human right, somewhere to call home.

Yes, re-nationalise it!

Very selfish if you ask me.

Elvis Costello's Dad

And DM is Margo Leadbetter!

she was trying to be a mum at 17 and eveb 19 is still a teen, so I would like a breakdown of ages in any statistics about teen pregnancies.

I think may explain things more fully: The Daily Mash

about 10 - 15 would be brilliant. gona PM you

Didn't they change them because people kept falling out of the doors when the trains were moving? But I suppose if they look nice, we should bring them in anyway.

Do you have a vehicle to bring them, or would I have to wheel my barrow, down streets broad and narrow, to colect them?

ok, well why didn't you say so? I understand everything with wonderful clarity now.

The BBC is amazing and worth every penny despite successive governments trying to undermine it.

Tesco do it a lot too.

Why, are you feeling the cold?

I never refuse an offer of help from such a kind gentleman as yourself!

Why the f*&k should a teen who is pregnant feel that she should have to give it up for adoption or have a termination? Pregnant women get no more priority for council places than non-pregnant women and when you are counting the number of people in your family babies under 1 are counted as 0, while babies from 1-5 are a half a person so it does not mean you are more likely to get a place if you are pregnant, and you have to wait a long time and have many kids before they consider you overcrowded, especially as you now have to include your sitting room as a bedroom before they concede you need more space. My daugher was with her now husband from the age of 15. She had no interest in school and bunked off for most of year 11. Her and her partner tried for a baby (against my wishes) for a year before she managed to get pregnant aged 18 and married a few months later. She has loads of family support from her brother, sisters and me, despite the fact that I have had 4 kids and am champing at the bit myself and she has turned out to be a brilliant mum. The baby is just over a year old and she has just finished evening classes in bookkeeping and accounts and has decided to swap places with her husband. She is now working full-time while he does the stay at home stuff. She is as stubborn as me, and when the totally natural urge to settle down and become a mum hit her in her teens, she had no interest in anything else. Now she has done that, she is interested in doing other stuff. My daughter was a teen mum but what is wrong with that?

KSP, SP and LOH??

I personally think you should always follow your instincts, and if your instincts told you this didn't feel right, you did the right thing. Better to be paranoid than beaten up and robbed.

I'm scared. Are you sure I won't get linched by the DVK for being a chav? The people who hang out down there are terrifying.

I've got a Green Burns party invite but I have a seminar in work the next day, so will prob just pop round to the EDF drinks instead, if I knew where the greyhound actually was, that is! Map please??

Havn't even got the chickens yet! I've been foxproofing the coop, in between working, digging my garden (and working out how to get about 4 bags of horse sh*t from the stables for my veg beds), babysitting my granddaughter and entertaining my youngest. I only need about 8 bricks to secure the edge and I can go get them. I also need to work out how to fence off the bottom of my garden to protect my fruit bushes and veg. Hoping to get the hens v soon tho!! And I'll post pics, I promise!

He's going to drive up and down the top end of Camberwell Grove with his music turned up to see if Maurice is still around!

Before anyone gets injured and tries to blame it on me, the first 3 trailers are not suitable for dogging or uni-cycling but are fine for shopping and the last trailer may be suitable for dogging, waiting in a long queue or having a nap, but not uni-cycling.

And for the doggers, not much privacy (not that you want a lot) but a lot more comfortable than your regular trailer: http://bikeforpeace.org/images/bike_move-nov_2005/bike_move_nov_2005_boulder.jpg

Haha, yeh it's a bit too busy for all that! Might get quieter after dark though! And for the bike-riding shopper, what about this fab trailer/shopper combo? http://www.bikehod.com/images/bike-hod/bikehod.jpg