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Quotes of the week

"We were told this would be a lovely, quiet village with a proper community but it's not. It's more like a housing estate" - Mother Debbie Pendry complains about drunk teenagers misbehaving on the village green of St Austell, the urban village backed by Prince Charles

"No one would criticise if social workers stepped in to stop a child being starved" - Editorial in Daily Mirror on an investigation by the newspaper that revealed seven children have been taken into care for being too fat

"Children have little choice about whether or not to be in a smoky environment" - Councillor Michael Stark on the London Borough of Redbridge's plans to ban smokers from fostering children.

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