"There would be a long way to go before these fads could be said to be anything more than just fads, " says Dr Helen Barrett, developmental psychologist and research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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Helen Sharman was the first Briton to go into space in 1991 on Project Juno, a cooperative project between a number of UK companies and the Soviet government.

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"I was inspired to go into this field by seeing 'Star Wars' and the R2-D2 character, " said Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot.

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Plaid Cymru AM Helen Mary Jones said the review board's recommendations showed that local health boards needed to go "back to the drawing board".

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