NEW European guidelines to protect children from window blind cords have been introduced – but campaigners warn that over one million older window blinds still pose a potentially lethal risk to ...

New research serves as a warning about a common household item that can pose a serious safety threat to young children: window blind cords. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics found that ...

Dear Angie: My window blinds need new cords. What's involved? Is this a DIY project or something to hire for? — Connie L., Calabasas, Calif. Dear Connie: While it's certainly possible to replace ...

A debate on the banning of looped cord blinds is to take place in the House of Commons this week. Ochil and South Perthshire MP Gordon Banks wants the UK brought into line with America, which outlawed ...

Hundreds of young children have been strangled on cords from window blinds, shades and curtains in the past 50 years. Officials and manufacturers knew about the danger — why didn’t they do more sooner ...

THE family of a toddler who died after getting entangled in the cord of a window blind has said they should be banned. Dean Regan Russell died at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin, last ...

That’s the message to all Dorset mums, dads, grandparents and teachers from the grieving mum of a two-year-old toddler killed by a blind cord. The Daily Echo is backing Annette Latimer’s crusade to ...

Toddler dies after getting caught up in the cord of a window blind as she played a game of hide and seek Sophie Allen died whilst playing hide and seek with her older brother Credit: Photo: Ceri Oakes ...