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Next month the TUC will vote on a motion by arts and entertainment union Equity, to boost the representation of fashion models amongst its members. We discuss why models need union protection and the implications for the fashion industry. A new report shows that a significant proportion of congenital abnormalities are going unreported because there are no registers in some areas of the UK. The report's editor Professor Joan Morris explains the dangers of not monitoring substantial parts of the country. As part of our series about female writers in Scotland, Zoe Strachan talks about her favourite place in her home town of Kilmarnock. There is huge pressure to cram children's days full with activities: ballet, judo, tennis, piano, sport, art projects and after school tuition. How can parents learn to take a step back and stop trying to micro-manage their children's lives? In the summer of 2006 Kate Rawles cycled 4500 miles from El Paso to Anchorage, all in the name of adventure and environmental campaigning. She followed the spine of the Rocky Mountains as closely as possible and along the way, spoke to those she met about climate change, what they knew of it and what they were doing about it. Kate has now written a book about her adventures and joins Jenni to explain what she found out about herself, the environment and American attitudes to life.