Ellee Seymour

After waiting 13 years for his moment of glory, why must Gordon Brown wait another 42 days before he can become Prime Minister? What is the reason for this delay?

A blog has been set up so nobody forgets Estelle Mouzin who vanished without trace in January 2003 when she was nine years old. She was returning home from school in Guermantes, France, a village with a population of 1,392, near Disneyland Paris. She was last seen outside the bakery.

Despite a very high profile police search involving 450 officers and the arrest of dozens of suspected paedophiles, it does not appear that this case has been solved. The raids were believed to be the largest ever carried out in France against suspected paedophiles.

This is what a website for Estelle says:

On January 9, 2003, around 6 p.m., Estelle, young girl 9 year old, disappeared in Guermantes, in the Seine and Marne, on the way of the return of the School. Since this date, nobody has any more any news of it. Estelle association was created to give a support with his/her parents and to allow him to find its family and her freedom.

We refuse to let settle fate. We are determined and will put all in work, as a long time as it will be needed, to find Estelle. Support our association, join us in the action and fight together against the unacceptable one.

Rallies have been held on the anniversary of her disappearance to keep the search active, to keep her memory alive. Her father is haunted by the tormented cries of his daughter, you can read his interview in full in the comments. 

In memory of those who are still missing.

Did you realise there are just over 200 registered sperm donors in the UK, despite a male population of more than 22 million men? I wrote about this crisis last August after Bourn Hall Clinic turned to a donor bank in Denmark to make up its desperate shortfall.

The crisis is a result of new laws introduced in April 2005 which removed anonymity from sperm donors. I heard a report on radio recently about sperm donors  being tracked by children they had biologically “fathered” this way.

For only £163, and using genealogy and DBA databases on the internet, it is possible to track down anonymous donors, as this teenage boy did. It is naturally a very strong deterrent for would-be donors who fear financial claims will be made against them, as well as paternal responsibilities.

Comedian Danny Robins  hilariously raised the profile about this dilemma by travelling around the country searching for donors with his mobile donation centre (a converted polling booth). His visits included Westminster where he invited Labour MPs who changed the law to lead the way (John Prescott was thankfully ruled out for being too old) for The Great Sperm Crisis to be screened on  BBC Three  tomorrow night.

The law was introduced to protect the rights of the unborn child, but is ironically producing fewer children as a result, and untold misery for childless women.  Fertility experts estimate that we need 500-600 donors for the current demand to be met.

Any offers?