The mother of a soldier serving in the Gulf is playing a unique role in the "heart and minds" campaign to win the trust of local people - by sending her son an army of teddy bears. Each bear sent by Dawn Taylor has a label reading "Please find me a child" and is meant to be handed out to a young Iraqi in the towns around war-stricken Basra. Mrs Taylor, 42, of Bearpark, Durham, is putting the bears in shoe boxes - along with a postcard of Durham City - and sending them to her 22-year-old son Mark. Mark,...
