Nursery World - Media watch (221)

A school play being performed in a village hall in Leicestershire was cut short after the audience of parents clapped too loudly. The Sun reported that 'The Jungle Book' had to be halted when applause triggered a noise-limiter which cut the power in the village of Waltham-on-the-Wolds. Safety guidelines for children using trampolines are being ignored, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents warned, after a new study reported in The Guardian found that four out of ten children injured when trampolining are so badly hurt that they require hospital operations.

Safety guidelines for children using trampolines are being ignored, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents warned, after a new study reported in The Guardian found that four out of ten children injured when trampolining are so badly hurt that they require hospital operations.

The Times reported that a four-year-old boy sparked a massive police air and ground search before being found safely asleep under his stepfather's Jeep in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset.

The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is expecting a baby of her own in January - conceived naturally. Louise, who made headlines at her birth in 1978, recently left her job as a nursery nurse, and told the Daily Express, 'I loved working with children, but the pay was terrible.' She became a postwoman.

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