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The £9 to £25 summer sale of hotel rooms available at over 392 Travelodge hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain for dates between 2 may and 5 September 2010 begins at 6.00am on 7 January 2010.

Stuck for a present? Forgotten to buy for someon on your list? Give an Amazon Gift Certificate.

Both Littlewoods and Very sell similar products online and have great deals – up to half price off many items – running until Christmas. Parenting Without Tears has two discount codes for visitors.

Congratulations to Michelle and Alex on the safe arrival of Oscar.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) – a global charity that funds research into finding a cure for type 1 diabetes – has launched an online animation tool enabling people to create an animation which they can then send to a friend who can then carry on the story, like an online animated game of consequences! The new tool is aimed at raising awareness or type 1 diabetes and JDRF.

The Booktrust Teenage Prize, launched in 2003 to recognise and celebrate the best contemporary writing for teenagers. today announced the 2009 winner: Neil Gaiman author of The Graveyard Book.

Your child's lunchbox could contain more than 12 teaspoons of sugar, says consumer champion, Which? Not to mention large quantities of fat and salt.

According to research carried out by car maker Chevrolet, Cinderella is the best-loved pantomime in the UK. Watch out for imprompu performances in Brighton and London on Saturday and probably Birmingham and Leicester on Sunday.

Michael Rosen today announced the winners of the 2009 Roald Dahl Funny Prize, administered by the Booktrust, at the Unicorn Theatre in London.

Booktrust and Blue Peter are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2010. These enormously popular and influential awards have been recognising and celebrating the best children's authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children since 2000. Great Christmas stocking fillers!

National Obesity Week, running from 2 to 8 November, is staging a consumer awareness campaign to help people be more aware of the risks associated with being overweight.

The Toy Retailers Association (TRA) today announced the industry's official prediction of Christmas bestsellers and all of them are under £50 making Christmas that bit more affordable!

You are not alone - according to a recent YouGov survey more than 40 per cent on shoppers are at risk of falling for fake reviews online.

See the Terra Cotta Warriors at the National Geographic Museum, Washington DC,  for free with this special offer bookable online.

A national campaign to recruit more than 1,000 cycling instructors is being launched today by Olympic gold medallist, Denise Lewis - with the focus of the recruitment drive aimed at mums returning to work. The mum of three is calling on fellow mums to train as Bikeability cycling instructors to help give the next generation of cyclists the skills and confidence to ride their bikes on today's roads and get the wheels of the economy turning.

According to a new report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched today to coincide with Parents' Week, British men want to take a more acitve role in caring for their children but four in ten fathers say they spend too little time with their offspring.

Award-winning tweezers have a new look sporting the Breast Cancer Campaign's pink ribbon – with a donation of £2 for each Pink Ribbon Slant bought going to Breast Cancer Campaign.