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For everyone and especially parents the following guide provides useful advice on:
Mobile phones and apps
Streaming content and smart TVs
Gaming consoles and online games
Social media
Cyberbullying
Privacy and information security
Viewing inappropriate content online
Online predators
Version 1: The Ultimate Parent Guide for Protecting Your Child on the Internet Version 2: The Ultimate Parent Guide for Protecting Your Child on the Internet
See also these guides from www.antivirusguide.com
Internet Safety for Kids: The Definitive Guide [2022] The Ultimate Social Media Safety Guide for Kids [2022] The Definitive Guide to Parental Control [2022]
Postal Code: CB25 (Changed 2006-2007 from CB5)
STD CODE: 01638
Latitude: 52:16:26N (52.274)
Longitude: 0:19:43E (0.3287)
GeoNames: 2654195
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Turner Prize nominee's artwork unveiled at stationMark Titchner's artwork draws upon his research into a pioneer of the circulation of blood.
Libraries given blood pressure monitors to loan outAs many as 50,000 people in the county are thought to have undiagnosed high blood pressure.
Ambulance trust to take fewer patients to hospitalA trust unveils a "major plan" in a bid to improve patient care and response times.
'I walked to every pub in Cambridge for my sister'Tom Foddy says he wanted to raise funds for a cancer charity and awareness of the role pubs play.
The airfield where motor racing returned after WW2A racing event nearly 80 years ago set the template for the sport's evolution, a historian says.
Bio energy firm pulls out of food waste contractThe decision is "disappointing" but a new interim solution has been arranged, a council says.
Royal audience for radiographers' Spider-Man maskAbigail Williamson and Eve Tomlinson paint masks for their young patients during their breaks.
In Pictures: Thousands attend Area 51-themed festivalStrawberry Fair marks its 51st year on Midsummer Common in Cambridge.
What's in a football crest - and why do clubs change them?Peterborough United are the latest English side to roll out a simpler version of their crest.
Police hunt fugitive who absconded from prisonSearches for missing HMP Hollesley Bay prisoner Sonny Loveridge continue more than two weeks on.
The airfield where motor racing returned after WW2A racing event nearly 80 years ago set the template for the sport's evolution, a historian says.