Media watch

One young couple's family grew faster than most when Rachel Reidford, 24, of Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, gave birth to five babies in less than a year, reported the Daily Mail. Rachel and Ricky Jones, 20, were settling down with their twins, Elliot and Evie, born in November 2005, when she became pregnant again and gave birth to triplets Harry, Alfie and Billy in August 2006. Rachel also has a six-year-old daughter, Ellie, from a previous relationship. The BBC has been accused of 'sick' commissioning over a television programme in which teenage couples are put in charge of other people's young children to see how they would cope with the job of parenting. The Daily Telegraph claimed that while 'The Baby Borrowers' was being filmed, one baby had to be removed from its teenage 'parents' and another baby was not fed for a whole day. The paper quoted Dr Michelle Elliott of the child protection charity Kidscape as saying, 'What is the BBC thinking of, giving babies and young children to inexperienced teenagers as entertainment?'