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Coping with trauma

A friend of Prince Charles has revealed how raiders ransacked her Mayfair flat, stealing more than £600,000 of family jewels.

Rebecca Wang said that she had been forced to move out of her rented apartment and live in a £863-a-night room at the Dorchester because she was so traumatised by the burglary.

Miss Wang is now suing her landlords for more than £700,000, claiming they failed to repair or replace a faulty burglar alarm. Her compensation claim includes the bill she has run up staying at the hotel and other expenses from moving out of her apartment which could total more than £100,000.

London Evening Standard (Ron Rubin)

Yuk!

The National Children's Bureau's 366-page Young Children and Racial Justice also warns of saying "yuk" to food associated with ethnic culinary traditions.

Author Jane Lane said: "It is about being sensitive, never attacking a child but thinking why they said something."

Daily Mirror (F Harvey)

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