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Baby Ashes, Magna Carta and Tennis.

Start your day with the latest news and updates, with Jim and Jo at breakfast.

The loss of a child, particularly a baby, must be one of the greatest pains any parent suffer. For a mother and father from Leicestershire that sense of emptiness felt all the more desolate for having no ashes returned to them after their baby's cremation. Trisha and Stewart Jones from Wigston lost their son Nicholas in April 1980 to cot death - he was 9 months old. The 大象传媒 has discovered that at the time it was the practice in at least 20 crematoriums across the country not to be able to return the ashes of children who died under a year old. As we mark 800 years of the Magna Carta, is it time for a modern day version? The Leicester couple who took to the tennis court for 24 hours to raise funds for Nepal.

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Mon 15 Jun 2015 06:00

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  • Mon 15 Jun 2015 06:00