Children’s Product for her cushion designs – hardly a surprise, perhaps, after winning a First Class Honours degree from London's University of Arts. Her distinctive designs are a blend of inspiration from an early childhood spent in Asia, favourite toys

, Chipmunk and The Saturdays to ensure that the day lives up to it Super Saturday title! The event is taking place in support of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, with Team GB athletes on hand to demonstrate Paralympic sports, such as wheelchair tennis

Reading regularly with children can dramatically reduce disruptive behaviour, according to a study carried out at eight primary schools in the London borough of Lambeth by the Institute of Psychiatry. The key to the scheme wasn't reading in itself

and twirl – no mean feat when you're wearing a giant oversized costume!You can catch Disney On Ice Passport To Adventure at Wembley Arena, London from Thursday December 28–Sunday January 6.

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to this weekend's Lollibop at London's Regent's Park), but there will come a time in the not-too-distant future when your child tells you it's time to go your own way (though they probably won't sing it in Fleetwood-Mac style). And if your young teens are making

AT THE OPENING soirée for the Covent Garden branch of his restaurant, affable Gallic chef Raymond Blanc was practically wiping a tear from his eye as he fondly reminisced coming to London as a young man, and visiting the famous Piazza and dreaming

The elegant Riverside Room on the 10th floor of prestigious pubishers Penguin – with a stunning view of the Thames and the South Bank's London Eye – was the venue for a gathering of the glitterati of children's picture book art to kickstart the year

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-hearted.The Dinosaur Project (cert 12A, running time 82 mins) is at Empire Cinemas in London from August 10.