Sunday, 4 December 2011

Britain's mysterious baby boom

Britain has undergone a dramatic baby-boom in the first part of this century - and experts suspect that, inadvertently, Tony Blair is the daddy.

According to a report out today, women in the UK have suddenly started to have significantly larger families: in 2001 the average was 1.64 but by 2008 it was 1.97.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13809280

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9625646.stm