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Want to be on ITV Daybreak? Check this media opportunity

Daybreak are looking for a group of mums to film for the programme, so if the below relates to you, then please get in touch. Deadline is Tuesday 17th January 2012. The kids are in bed, you’re winding down after a hectic day, and you’ve poured yourself a nice big glass of wine…sound familiar? We’re looking for a group of mums who are happy to share their drinking habits over the next…
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Win 1 family ticket (for a family of 4) to the exclusive multimedia screening of The Muppets movie

To celebrate the release of Disney’s, “The Muppets” in cinemas Feb 10, we are giving away 1 family ticket (for 4 family members) to the very first screening of “The Muppets” in the UK. You and a your family could be “lighting the lights” in London on January 15 with the hottest tickets in town (at 10am at Empire Leicester Square). Deadline to enter is 11,30am on WEDNESDAY 11 January…
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January 2012 Newsletter

Dear London Mums Wow it’s already 2012, the year we have been waiting for for years, the year of the London Olympics and of the Diamond Jubilee to mark 60 years of The Queen’s reign. Have a wonderful year filled with joy, health, happy mummies and children and lots of sport! Let it be the year where we are all motivated to do more sport to be fitter and healthier. Let it not just be…
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Win 1 of 10 copies of The Little Book of Diet Help by Kimberly Willis

For your chance to win 1 of 10 copies of The Little Book of Diet Help by Kimberly Willis enter your answer to the simple question below in our dedicated competition page https://new.londonmumsmagazine.com/competition-area The question is ‘What’s the name of this book’s publisher’? Deadline to enter is 18th February 2012. The truth is, diets don’t work – or, at least, they…
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Top 10 tips to detox your life in 2012

We all make new year’s resolutions. They seem to be always the same which we can’t keep up with. This year is the year of the Olympics so it’s in order to desire to be sportier and healthier. Here are my good intentions for 2012 and I am sharing some tips to detox myself. 1) Try tech detox – Take it easy and spend quality time with your child/ren at least for 1 hour every…
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3 KEY WAYS TO GET PR by author and award-winning entrepreneur Paula Wynne

Free publicity, either at a local or national level, is the perfect way to promote your business and drive traffic to your website. The media look for news stories not marketing messages from a company, so it is vitally important for you to create a news story and make sure it is newsworthy. In this article I will show start ups and small business owners how to get free publicity with three key PR…
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Fantastic flexible job opportunity working from home

Elephant Recruitment Ltd is an established childcare provider and continues to pride itself on a first class service, personal to both families and professional child carers. Monica Morison, Director of Elephant Recruitment, has worked in business for over 15 years. In the last year we have had families all over the UK and Ireland contacting Elephant Recruitment to use our Au pair service, mainly…
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Face-to-face with one of the most graceful and magic ballerinas in Britain: Darcey Bussell

Ballet dancing is so fascinating and deep inside we would all want our little girls to become as graceful as Darcey Bussell. Here she is opening her heart to us. You started professional ballet at quite a late stage, there any reason for this? I DID START BALLET CLASSES ON SATURDAYS FROM 5 YEARS OLD, BUT I WAS JUST NOT VERY INTO IT UNTIL I WAS ABOUT 12 YEARS OLD, I THINK IT WAS BECAUSE I ONLY…
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Mumpreneur's testimonial: Mia Drennan and her headhunting business based on flexible working practice

Mia Drennan is the first ever winner of Workingmums.co.uk‘s Working mums champion award. The award recognises both the way her headhunting company Square Mile Connections treats staff and how Mia advocates for wider changes in work culture. Mia’s staff not only work flexibly, but she has recognised this formally by introducing contracts that are based on hours worked rather than days…
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Mumpreneur's testimonial: how Gillian Nissim set up a flexible working business

In 2006, Gillian Nissim was a communications manager and had just had her second child. She needed flexible yet challenging work, but wasn’t able to find it. She decided to do something about it. The result is workingmums.co.uk, a jobs site which puts a huge bank of qualified professional women in touch with family-friendly employers who offer flexible working conditions and work which…
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