Three teenage sisters gave birth all around the same time. They were 12, 14 and 16 years old. It turns out the mother had been letting the youngest one sleep with her boyfriend from the age of 11.
So whose fault is it?
According to the mother it isn't hers. When the story hit the news she said it was the girls' school's fault for giving inadequate sex education. A day or two later and she'd decided it wasn't the school's fault after all but the government's fault for not providing enough support. Support? What support? Should the government pay for a full time advisor to live in the house with her to tell her how to be a good mother?
Those girls should have been taken into care. Any mother that allows their daughter to have sex at 11 years old and then blame their school and the government for the fact they got pregnant is cleary an unfit mother.
Remember the Keep Britain Tidy campaign? It's not quite as prominent as it used to be but it's still with us. However, the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, courtesy of ENCAMs, now has some offspring - Keep Scotland Beautiful, Keep Wales Tidy and Tidy Northern Ireland. There is, of course, no Keep England Beautiful campaign.
Apparently this has been brought up before at the Campaign for an English Parliament - they drew up their own logo and ENCAMs got so many enquiries about the "Keep England Beautiful" campaign they had to request the Campaign for an English Parliament took it down. The whole subject has been brought to the fore again by somebody at the Cross of St George forums which has prompted the Campaign for an English Parliament to dig out the old logo again.
For more information see http://thecep.org.uk/news/Comments.asp?Entry=178 and make sure you as ENCAMs all about it.