Baby Petal sleeps through her first shopping trip in mother Jools Oliver’s arms

A shopping trip with a newborn in tow is not the most easy of activities.

But luckily for Jools Oliver her adorable baby Petal slept tightly throughout their short outing to pick up some baby clothes today.

The latest arrival to the Oliver family was kept safe in her car seat as Jools took her into a branch of the U.S. chain Gap, close to their north London home.

With big sisters Daisy and Poppy at school, and  proud father Jamie at work, it was just 34-year-old Jools and month-old baby Petal on the trip.

Jools, who has never tried to conform to the celebrity stereotype of yummy mummies, dressed for comfort.

She teamed her velour grey sweatpants with sheepskin Ugg boots, and a pale blue top.

Jools and her chef husband are planning to have yet more children and Jamie has previously said he would consider adopting a son to balance out his ‘oestrogen-filled house’. 

Hunt for Valentines Day girl railway gang attacker

Descriptions

The main suspect is a white girl, aged between 20 and 25 years of age. She had black shoulder length hair, which appears to have been dyed. She’s about 5ft 6in tall, wearing jeans and ugg boots.

She was also wearing a distinctive cream coloured hooded cardigan, which was received from the scene.

The other woman was wearing a khaki coloured jacket, short skirt and black tights and boots. She is also believed to be a smoker.

Police search for missing sisters

POLICE are becoming increasingly anxious to locate two girls who went missing last week.

Sisters Nicole and Bobbie-Jo Critchley, who are both under the care of social services, are believed to be with their mother somewhere in Stoke-on-Trent.

The pair went missing on Friday, April 17 from an address in Stone and officers have carried out a number of enquiries in the Potteries in the past week.

Twelve-year-old Bobbie-Jo is described as white, slim build, and about 5ft 2ins tall. She has shoulder length blonde hair and was last seen wearing black jeans, black Ugg boots, a black strap top and a black zip-up hooded jacket.

Her sister, 13-year-old Nicole, is also white, of medium build and about 5ft 3ins tall. She has shoulder length dark brown hair and was last seen wearing black jeans, black jumper and a belt.

Sergeant Dave Ingham, of Stone Neighbourhood Policing Unit (NPU), said: “Nicole and Bobbie-Jo have links within the Stoke area as well as in Stafford and while we believe they are with their mother, we are appealing to the public for their help in locating them.

“We would also urge the pair to make

Anyone with information on Nicole or Bobbie-Jo’s whereabouts is urged to contact Stone police on 0300 123 4455.

Razing Yahoo!’s GeoCities

Content isn’t king at Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO). In fact, it may not even be fit to be a jester. It’s more like the messenger getting slain, if we go by the struggling online titan’s move to close down its GeoCities site.

Believe it or not, a company that is clearly hungry for traffic and pages to populate with ads — given its 15% revenue slide this past quarter — is axing a source of free content generation. GeoCities has stopped taking in new registrations, and is advising existing users to move out before the bulldozers come in later this year.

As anyone who has surfed through GeoCities over the years will tell you, an Internet without GeoCities is like a world of celluloid without Keanu Reeves flicks. The absence of GeoCities won’t create a cultural void. Few will miss its passing. It’s loaded mostly with hobbyist tribute pages, authored by penny-pinching cybersurfers who put up with primitive tools and gaudy ads in exchange for free hosting. Many of the pages were created years ago, and abandoned like bunny rabbits after Easter Sunday, Ugg boots after winter, and anything Reeves did after the first Matrix movie.

Let’s not harp on the fact that Yahoo! acquired GeoCities 10 years ago in a deal originally valued at $3.6 billion — on the pricey side of the dot-com bubble. Everyone was overpaying at the time.

Yahoo!’s real crime was in neglecting its costly municipality. Instead of making GeoCities more attractive and fleshing out its potential as a social destination for niche audiences, Yahoo! appears to have dusted it under the rug as it moved to sell commercial hosting services instead.

Stupid, right? The guy in GeoCities who is showing off his collection of hissing Madagascar cockroaches or the YMCA basketball coach posting game-day snapshots is never going to upgrade to a paid hosting plan. However, a site like GeoCities can still nurture loyalty from its authors and appreciation from folks who stumble on sites put up by like-minded souls. That has to be worth something, right?

Killing GeoCities is just an invitation for bad karma, even if it’s already clear that Yahoo! did something to anger the gods several years ago.