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Information for parents

• Babygoes2.com - offering a completely independent, free, recommended-by-parents selection of villas and hotels worldwide (inc UK), with or without childcare, along with advice, information, tips.
• BT Education - a site developed by BT which focuses on giving ideas for improving interpersonal communication skills.  Easy to use and gets its message across in a variety of effective ways.

• Junior Magazine - The web site delivers the same great quality mix of intelligent articles on education, travel and health as the monthly news-stand magazine, as well as an extensive web directory

• Parents In Touch - ‘Parents in Touch’ is an educational information site for people with children of all ages. It explains all the schooling terminology, gives information on teaching methods, subject matter and advice on how parents can help.

• Take The Familiy - This site offers ideas, advice and a booking service for family friendly holidays worldwide.  It is extremely comprehensive in its coverage.

• Travelling with Kids Forum - A forum for parents who want to talk directly to each other – exchanging travel tips, experiences and advice. The forum is hosted by Dea Birkett who writes a 'Travelling with Kids' column in the Guardian each Saturday.

•  'By parents - for parents', this site has a wealth of information and helpful advice on all aspects of parenting. Mumsnet is an online network of parents pooling their knowledge on everything from how to get a baby to sleep through the night to the best places to go on holiday with a five-year-old. Visit mumsnet for advice, tips and product recommendations from the people who know best, other parents.

Getting places

• www.nationarail.co.uk       for train timetables

• www.thetrainline.com    for booking tickets

• www.streetmap.co.uk    for locating a street within an area

• BBC London                 for traffic reports

• Motorway food stops    for when you know you are going to need to stop off on the motorway but want to avoid the dreadful food and horrendous prices of motorway service stations. 

History

• www.census.pro.gov.uk    for finding census details from 1901.  Searching is free but viewing is 50p for each data set.

Recipes & food

• www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/

• www.deliaonline.com   

• www.theeveninginn.com - a unique online world cookbook.  The site also provides the facility to create your shopping list and order the ingredients required for your chosen menu - neat!

• Fish recipes

• UK Food

Reference

• www.statistics.gov.uk - statistics on anything to do with the UK (money, people, most popular babies names etc etc)

• Nethouseprices - if you want to find out the average price that house were sold for in your road (or one you are buying in) over the past five years, this is the site to go to

Travel

• Babygoes2.com - offering a completely independent, free, recommended-by-parents selection of villas and hotels worldwide (inc UK), with or without childcare, along with advice, information, tips.

• Better Days Out - Your guide to a child friendly Nottingham.  Children's events and activities, child friendly places, parks, museums, softplay, online forum, shopping, parents first section and much more

• Child Friendly Cottages - All the cottages and farms featured on this website welcome children under five and have a minimum level of child friendly facilities - great for family holidays! Find a family-friendly cottage and then book direct with the owner, so pay no commission or booking fee

• FamilyFirst - A bilingual site, created by parents for parents, provides a wide variety of information in English and French for families wanting to visit the French Riviera and wishing to organise their trip to make it one to remember! Use it to find out all you need to know about family friendly accommodation, activities for families or kids only, the best family friendly beaches, family friendly restaurants, event for kids and families and lots more…!

• UK What's on Guide - We are featured on the ukwhatsonguide.co.uk.

• Travelling with Kids Forum - A forum for parents who want to talk directly to each other – exchanging travel tips, experiences and advice. The forum is hosted by Dea Birkett who writes a 'Travelling with Kids' column in the Guardian each Saturday.

• InCarHoots.com import the Suspension Theater, a unique device for mounting a DVD player safely in the car from the USA.  Car journeys will never be the same! 

• FlyPark - pre-book cheaper airport parking

UK accommodation

• Hotels Valued - Hotelsvalued.com provides instant reservations for good quality hotels in London at cheap prices
• London UK Hotels - London UK Hotels and London UK Accommodation at United-Kingdom-Hotels.co.uk
• London hotels - London hotels and London Accommodation UK at Pictures of England.com
• Welcome homes & hotels - a wide choice of selected and friendly accommodation within central London and suburban areas to suit all budgets

Web Directories

• UK Business Directory - Online UK business directory offering a business directory for UK businesses and companies
• World City Pages - World City Pages offers a wide variety of websites from all over the world, with lots information and services that include entertainment, automotive, travel, real estate, sports, shopping, education, weather and more
• uklinks.org - a UK web directory. List your site for free.
• London Only - For anything to do with London
• London Information Online - A directory and guide to London for residents, visitors and business
• London Pages  - Web Directory with an emphasis on London
• UK Pages - Web Directory

• UGA internet guides
  UGA media is the European publisher of internet guides, business portals, travel guides and reference cd-roms.

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