I will think about whether there's a child out there as a result of it, but not on a regular basis.A knock on the door in 18 years, that's hard to prepare yourself for. But worrying about it happening doesn't even touch the edge of the joy it could give someone. The daughter: 'All adopted children have fantasies' Sue Elliott, 53, author, Ealing, west London - Traced her birth motherThe link between a biological [parent] and a child is indestructible. It is hard to articulate and even harder to find a scientific basis for, but it will impel people to search.Looking for your biological parent is very emotional and a time delay needs to be built in. It was for me as an adopted person, and I hope it is for children who are the result of sperm or egg donation and want to contact the donor The basic issues are similar, I think Wanting to know It took a long time to find my birth mother, about 15 years. You don't just suddenly decide; it creeps up on you.You wonder, "Why am I like I am?" All adopted children have these fantasies: "Is my mother Princess Margaret? Is my father a Spitfire pilot?"I knew I was adopted from the first time I started asking about where I came from They told me I was chosen, which was lovely It wasn't a big deal for me. Until I got to my 30s I felt strongly that I did not want to trace her.I felt loyalty to my adoptive parents and I knew this would really upset them I was also worried about how she might react.

I thought, "Why did she give me away?"I didn't want to contact my biological father for reasons I haven't yet articulated to myself He pissed off He didn't care, so I didn't really care about him. I have two half-sisters and we all look very different,

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so our fathers must have been different, too.It was painful having local-authority counselling, but on balance I think it was the right thing to do You need to think through the implications. And that's often contrary to what your emotions are telling you.Sue Elliott is the author of Love Child (Vermillion). Mental health campaigners are calling for a government inquiry into the effects of cannabis one year after the drug was reclassified from Class B to Class C. There is a rapidly growing body of evidence showing that cannabis can trigger schizophrenia in people already at risk, and probably even in people who should only be low risk."Tomorrow, hundreds of mental health campaigners will attend a rally outside Parliament to demand changes to the Government's mental health reforms.

The draft Mental Health Bill, which has already undergone significant changes since it was published in 2002, has been opposed by psychiatrists, mental health campaigners and patients, who argue it is geared more towards compulsion than meeting patients' health needs.The health minister Rosie Winterton said she would meet the marchers to reassure them their concerns would be heard. "This is the biggest change to mental health law for 50 years and it has rightly been subject to extensive consultation," she said.. Motorists who buy fuel-hungry executive cars and 4x4s will be forced to pay a levy under plans for a radical new taxation system to promote the sale of environmentally friendly cars. However, ministers are worried about the continuing increase in greenhouse gas emissions from road transport.The Treasury's existing measure for promoting greener cars - setting higher bands of vehicle excise duty based on the fuel efficiency of the vehicle - seems to have failed to change private car-buying behaviour. Critics claim this is because taxes for gas-guzzlers are still too low.In 2003, privately bought cars were less fuel efficient than in 2002 - an unexpected development put down to increasing affluence, falling prices for larger cars and growing sales of 4x4s, known in the industry as sports utility vehicles (SUV). Hold on to your fretboards - the women's rock revolution is here. Electric guitars, once the preserve of sweaty lads in leather jackets, are now cluttering up female bedrooms too. Manufacturers have seen unprecedented demand from girl musicians with the iconic brand Fender reporting that women now account for half of its sales.Even the shape of the instruments is changing with the rapidly expanding firm Daisy Rock using feminine colours and styles with smaller necks to accommodate smaller hands.Record industry bible Music Week has already identified "guitar-wielding girl bands" as a key trend, with record labels investing heavily to target the hole left in the teenage market by the recent split of Busted.Women have had few major guitar rock icons over the years apart from figures such as Courtney Love and Mercury Prize winner PJ Harvey.