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THESE incredible pictures show one of the world’s last uncontacted Indian tribes living in the jungle – but they are in danger.
The photos have just been released by Survival International by Ian Eddy For more pictures and an explanation of this main image,
as part of its campaign to protect the territory of tribes like this. go to www.firstnews.co.uk.
They say that an increase in logging in Peru is starting to force International’s Stephen Corry. “It’s vital that the Peruvian To read more about this and similar tribes, you can head to
tribes from the area over the border into Brazil. Experts fear government stop them before time runs out. What they need Survival International’s new site: www.uncontactedtribes.
that this could lead to conflict between the tribes. from us is their territory protected, so that they can make org. The tribe in the pictures is also featured in the ‘Jungles’
“The illegal loggers will destroy this tribe,” says Survival their own choices about their future.” episode of BBC1’s Human Planet.

Polar bear swims

nonstop for nine days
A polar bear swam nonstop for more than nine days over
426 miles because it couldn’t find any ice to rest on.
Scientists say huge trips like this are happening because of climate
change. Polar bears swim from land to sea ice floes to hunt seals but
melting ice means they have to swim further.
Geoff York from animal charity WWF says: “As the Arctic ice continues to
melt, it is likely that polar bears are going to have to swim longer distances.”
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NEWS
IN BRIEF
Painting sells for ££££s
A 450-year-old painting of
Madonna and Child by Titian
has sold for £10.7million ($16.9)
in New York.
Auction House, Sotheby’s,
said the oil on canvas artwork
had changed hands only six
times since it was painted
around 1560.

Who’s listening?

Egypt in crisis
CelebriTieS say newspaper
reporters have been listening to
their mobile phone messages to
try to get a good story.
Now they are taking the
News of the World newspaper
to court. investigations began
when a reporter was caught
trying to listen in on phone calls
by members of the royal family.
NHS protests
ProTeSTerS demonstrated
outside parliament this week.
They are not happy with
Government plans to make
changes to the National
Health Service.
BRITISH holidaymakers arriving back from Egypt say they are relieved to be home.
Shocked travellers got caught up in protests
in egypt’s capital city, Cairo, and said they had
been very frightened.
David lewis, from Manchester, said: “it did
not take us long to realise it was not safe to
be out on the streets. We were lying in bed
at night hearing shots, looking out of the
window seeing groups of men with sticks in
their hands trying to protect their homes.”
People in egypt’s major cities took to
by editor Nicky Cox
the streets this week to protest against the
country’s government. Many people in egypt
are very poor. They feel badly treated by the
government and think more should be done
to make their lives better.
Hundreds of people are thought to have
died and thousands have been arrested since
Thousands of Egyptians
gather in Cairo’s Tahrir
Square to mark a week
of protests calling for
President Hosni Mubarak
to resign
the trouble began last week.
The government cut off the internet and
mobile phones after four days of protests, to
make communication difficult for rioters.
egypt’s President Mubarak went on television
earlier in the week to say he would start to
make changes in the hope that it would stop
the rioters. As he spoke, he had been ruling the
country for 30 years but protesters said it was
time for him to step down.

Too much TV to talk Teach pupils about money

A SURVEY has suggested that spending too much time in front of STUDENTS should be given lessons about managing money, says a group of MPs
televisions and computers is affecting children’s speech. from all parties.
The findings came from a survey of listen properly. Around 120 politicians have formed a group in about spending and debts at all ages and stages
6,000 people by the Communication it said televisions that were on all the a bid to make sure children are able to make the of learning. They want to help children before they
Trust for the launch of the Hello time, noisy brothers and sisters and right decisions about their money as they grow up. get into debt, which means owing money to banks,
campaign – the national year of raised voices were getting in the way of The group wants school children to have lessons other organisations or to people.
communication. children’s language skills.
one in three parents said they’d
been concerned about the way
their child communicated and many
thought it was because children
spent too much time in front of
screens.
The Trust say that around two or
three children in each class have
difficulty with communicating and
that the problems are normally
something they have been born with.
A separate ofsted study found
young children were starting
nursery school unable to speak and
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Climber survives Milk is going green! EDITOR’S

300m mountain fall
RESCUERS feared the worst after a man fell 300m
down a mountain.
but they found Adam Potter
standing up and reading a map!
The 36-year-old from Glasgow
was taken to hospital with just
cuts and bruises.
While he was falling, Adam
says he thought he was going
to die. but the ordeal hasn’t
put him off his hobby. He plans
to climb Mount everest, the
world’s highest mountain, in “a
couple of months”.
COMMENT
A NEW eco-friendly milk bottle is set to go on sale in
supermarkets nationwide.
Editor Nicky Cox MBE
IT seems like there is trouble in
The Greenbottle was invented many parts of the world right now.
by Martin Mysercough from Some of the trouble is man-made, like
Suffolk after he was shocked by the events in egypt. Some is natural, like the
the number of plastic volcanos in Japan and indonesia. And, as i am
milk bottles he saw at his local writing this, there is news that a huge cyclone
landfill site. is heading for Australia.
The bottles are like papier- And then there’s our front page story
mache with a shell of recycled about the tribe of indians photographed
paper covering a thin plastic in detail for the first time in the brazilian
liner to store the milk. jungle. i was struck by the look on their faces
The green bottles can be as they looked up at the helicopter from
recycled again or thrown where the photos were taken. one of the
away. They would decompose men is shown pointing at it.
in a few weeks, compared to What would they have made of this huge
normal plastic bottles which flying machine?
take around 500 years to This tribe has never been contacted by the
decompose. outside world before. i wonder if they wonder
Martin got the idea from his what is out here. Certainly the helicopter
son’s papier-mache balloon. would have given them a clue. They will know
ASDA experimented with the nothing of the trouble in egypt, or of climate
green bottles in one area and change. but the sad thing is that the illegal
have decided to use them all loggers may suddenly make them very well
across the country now. The first aware of issues in the big, wide world.
ones will be seen in Cornwall
this week.
THIS WEEK
IN HISTORY
on 5 february 1953 the rationing of
confectionery ended after ten years, with
schoolchildren first in the queue for as
many sweets and chocolate as they’d like.

Japan’s
BAD WEEK FOR...

biggest volcano Microsoft

eruption in 50 years
Microsoft has discovered a flaw that
could affect the security of around 900
million people using internet explorer.

SCHOOLS have been closed and houses evacuated after

GOOD WEEK FOR...
a volcano erupted in Japan.
Shinmoedake volcano began to spew ash after it awoke from a Henry Cavill
52-year sleep.
People have been banned from going within a mile of the volcano The british
in the Kirishima mountain range and 1,000 residents have been told actor has
to find somewhere safer to go. landed the
experts said a dome of lava was growing larger inside the volcano’s lead role
crater, but it was not certain whether the dome would grow enough in the next
to spill over the rim and create large flows down the volcano’s sides. Superman
The Japanese islands are volcanic in origin and dozens of active
film. Henry
volcanos erupt regularly across the country.
it’s not the only volcano erupting in the area. Mount bromo in will be the first
indonesia started to spew ash too. Worshippers climbed to the crater non-American
to give offerings to the god of the mountain, praying for the safety of ever to play
local people. Superman.
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Remembering
the Holocaust
Holocaust Memorial Day – 27 January 2011

What was the Holocaust?

Six million Jews and millions of other people were killed during World War ii
in what is called the Holocaust. Their suffering was remembered on Holocaust
Memorial Day on 27 January.

Child prisoners behind the barbed wire

fence at the Auschwitz concentration camp

World War II concentration camp survivors

and other guests attend a memorial
ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau
memorial and former concentration camp
on the 66th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz on Holocaust Memorial Day 2011.
How did so many people die?
The Nazis set up concentration
camps, like Auschwitz, where
people were sent to be killed. In
1942 alone, around 2.7 million Jews
were murdered. Victims were taken
from their homes and sent to camps
in trains. Here they were starved,
tortured, shot, hanged or gassed to
death in specially-built chambers.
british troops found 60,000
starving prisoners and 27,000
unburied bodies when they were
able to enter the concentration
camp at belsen to free the prisoners.
In britain, Holocaust Memorial
Day takes place on 27 January to
remember the victims. The day
marks the anniversary of the end of
the Auschwitz concentration camp
after Hitler was defeated. It is the
day when everyone remembers
the terrible events of the Holocaust
in the hope that it will help stop
anything like it happening again.

The killings took place in europe between 1933
and 1945 and were organised by the German Nazi
party, led by Adolf Hitler. It happened in the run-up
to, and during, World War II.
Nearly seven out of ten Jews living in europe were
murdered. The Nazis wanted to wipe out people
who belonged to particular religious or racial
groups. Mass killing like this is called genocide.
The Nazis also murdered Polish Catholics,
disabled people, homosexuals and other
groups. Anyone who spoke out against Hitler
was killed too, including journalists and
politicians.
Adolf Hitler became leader of the Nazi party in
1921. The Nazis were racist Aryans and believed
that they were better than anybody else. To them,
an Aryan was anyone who was european and not
Jewish, Romany or Slavic.
They also thought Germany was the most
important country in europe.
In 1934 Hitler became Germany’s head of state.
He thought Jews were a problem and wanted
to get rid of them all. So the mass killings of the
Holocaust began. This is Auschwitz. It was the biggest
Hitler also wanted to make Germany bigger, so Nazi concentration camp during
World War II and is known for its
he invaded other countries and took them over. gas chambers where hundreds of
thousands of Jews and other victims
were murdered.

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to
Auschwitz survivor Trude Levi, 86, inside 10 Downing
Street in London, last week. Trude visited the Prime
Minister to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Beds, on which four or
five people had to sleep, in
Auschwitz concentration camp
STUDENTS REMEMBER
Students from Camborne took part in an event to
remember the victims of the Holocaust.
The youngsters from Camborne Science and Community College
gave a talk on Holocaust Memorial Day about a trip they’d just made to
Auschwitz and showed a film about their experiences.
Neil burden, the council’s cabinet member for children’s services, lit
six candles in honour of the six million people who died in the atrocity.
He said: “We all have a duty to make sure that this dark period of
human history, which took the lives of 1.5 million children, is never
allowed to be repeated.”
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Now you see him

...or do you?
Happy ending
for stranded dog
A yeAr after this plucky pooch was rescued from an ice
sheet out at sea, First News can tell you his story had a
happy ending.
The dog, named baltic, was pulled from the icy waters of the baltic Sea
back in January 2010. The crew of a passing ship thought he was a seal
at first and couldn’t believe it when they realised they were looking at a
stranded dog.
Now the lucky dog has settled in as the ship’s pet, mascot and
guard dog.
baltic is spoiled by the ship’s chef who serves him regularly with
his favourite sausages. And he even sleeps in a cosy cabin with his
master, Adam.

Starter gun fired

barcroft

Can you spot the artist in these two pictures?

for Olympic helpers

Liu bolin has become so skilled at camouflage art that he seems to disappear in front of anything.
Sometimes Mr Liu has his assistants paint his body while he remains completely still – above he stands in front of
a supermarket shelf while, below, he stands in a forest.

Michael Johnson, a four-time Olympic gold medallist, runs along a track

inside the Olympic Stadium in Stratford. He helped launch the appeal last
year for up to 70,000 volunteers to assist in the running of the Games.

iNTerVieWS to find 70,000 volunteers to help run the

Olympic Games began this week.
More than half the 100,000 people being interviewed for roles, in nine
centres around the UK, will be successful.
Over the next 14 months, more than 300 people a day will go to
barcroft

selection events to see an exhibition about the Olympic Games and for a
30-minute interview.
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26 January BeiJing, CHina: Chinese actors

perform during a folk art show to celebrate the Lunar New
Year, the Year of the Rabbit. Lord Rabbit is a mythical bunny
sent down from the moon to bring good health.

25 January LOndOn, uK: Team Green Britain ambassador and 2012 30 January BriSBane, auSTraLia: Mary
Paralympian hopeful, Tom Aggar, joined children from Southwold Primary
school, Hackney, and members of EDF Energy’s school programme – The Pod – to Vriesekolk and dog Jess at the RNA Showgrounds. The Pet Industry
celebrate the launch of EDF Energy’s partnership with the London Eye. Visit Association of Australia offered free dog washing, vet checks, food
www.jointhepod.org for more information on The Pod. and equipment for animals affected by the Queensland floods.

25 January FOLKeSTOne, uK: Prince Charles, the Prince

of Wales, presents Afghanistan Service Medals to soldiers from the
1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles at Sir John Moore Barracks.

23 January OSCHerSLeBen, gerMany: Emergency staff work at

the scene of an accident where a passenger train collided head-on with a goods
train. Ten people died and 23 were injured in the accident when the trains collided,
causing the passenger train to derail and land on its side.
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OUR STORIES
Home News
uk
Watch out for ticks
Families are being warned to
be aware of ticks as spring and
summer approach. Ticks are tiny
parasites, the size of a full stop,
that live in bushes, grass and
woodland. a tick bite won’t hurt
but can cause a nasty rash and
other symptoms, even leading
to Lyme disease. The increase
of Lyme disease in the UK has
caused experts to warn families to
be careful when exploring nature
and to wear insect repellent and
light clothing as a precaution.
Wales
Alien parasites
Parasites not native to the UK may
be the cause of mass shellfish
deaths in Wales each year. Scientists
have been trying to work out what
is killing a million cockles a year
along the Gower in Wales. Tests
have found evidence of two “alien
parasites” that are not found usually
in our waters. The pests are actually
from america where they have also
killed lots of shellfish.
Brighton
Pier for sale
Pieces of Brighton’s famous
West Pier are being sold to the
public. The historic structure was
built in 1866 but closed to the
public in 1975, with hopes of it
being restored one day. a tragic
fire destroyed most of the pier
in 2003, but lots of items were
salvaged from the wreckage. The
items have been in storage ever
since, but are available now for
people to buy. Prices range from
£10 to £250 for the various bits
and pieces.
THE WEEK IN NUMBERS
9 swans have been found dead in
Upperby Park, Carlisle. Park rangers
are puzzled by their deaths and are
looking into possible reasons.
49 cars that were made before
1974 have set off from Glasgow
for the 2011 Monte Carlo Classic
Rally. Glasgow is one of this year’s
European starting points.
For more home news, pictures and videos go to www.firstnews.co.uk/news
lancashire Bristol
Meditation lessons Museum opens
a state school in Ormskirk is set People in Bristol will be able to
to be the first to teach students learn more about their heritage
how to meditate. The Maharishi from june, when the City Council
School, which is run by followers opens a brand new museum, The
of spiritualist Maharishi Mahesh M Shed, in Prince’s Wharf. The
Yogi, a man known for teaching building will display everything
The Beatles how to meditate, will
start allowing students to spend
from steamboats and trains to
cranes and will have its own cafe .
two ten-minute sessions a day with
their eyes closed at their desks.
250 children’s centres around
the UK could face closure if budget
cuts continue.
750,000 pounds is
how much local residents in Penrith,
Cumbria, have to raise in three
months if they want to save their
local cinema by buying it.
7
FAST WEATHER
FACTS FACT FIL
E
edinburgh
Volcano show
Scotland’s extinct volcano, arthur’s a FEBRUaRY folklore says:
Seat, will be the backdrop for ‘When a cat lies in the sun in
community celebrations being February, she will creep behind
organised for the 2012 London the stove in March’.
Olympics. athletes and walkers will
light up the volcano wearing
colour-changing clothes. The
three-week presentation is called
THE
Speed of Light and will run from
9.30pm until 1.30am for three
WEEK’S
weeks in august.
WEATHER
with Jonathan Powell
From Friday 4 February to
Thursday 10 February 2011
Week In general
Wet and windy.
Flooding. Mild.
FrIday 4 FeBruary
Scotland/n Ireland –
Rain showers. Day 6c/43f
night 2c/36f. Brisk
southwesterly.
England/Wales – Rain
showers. Day 8c/46f night 3c/37f.
Brisk southwesterly.
saturday 5 FeBruary
Scotland/n Ireland
– Rain showers. Day
9c/45f night 5c/41f.
Strong southwesterly.
England/Wales – Rain
showers. Day 11c/52f
night 7c/45f. Strong
southwesterly.
sunday6 FeBruary
Scotland/n Ireland
– Rain showers. Day
8c/46f night 4c/39f.
Strong southwesterly.
England/Wales – Rain
showers. Day 11c/52f night 7c/45f.
Strong southwesterly.
rest oF the Week
Wet and windy.
300 metres (1,000 ft) is the
distance a 36-year-old man from
Glasgow fell, while climbing to the
summit of Sgurr Choinnich Mor in
Scotland. He survived – see page 3.
24 degrees celsius is the ideal
classroom temperature for girls to
study in, claim researchers. Boys
learn better at 21C, they say.
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Walking
Cockerel
warning

gorilla
AN increase in the number
of people keeping their
own chickens has prompted
Leicestershire council to issue
a warning about noise!
In 2010, the number of complaints
about noisy cockerels was triple the
amount from 2009.
Cockerels can be very noisy,
especially early in the mornings.
People who have animals that
repeatedly make noise could face a
£5,000 fine.
Officers believe more people than
ever are keeping chickens so that
they can have fresh eggs and are
suggesting that only hens are
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A gORILLA at an animal park in Kent

has become a YouTube sensation after
learning to walk like a human on his
two hind legs.
by Nicky Cox

Ambam, who is 21 years old, has attracted more

than a million views on the website after taking
a stroll around his home at Port Lympne Animal
Park. He is part of a bachelor group of critically
endangered Western Lowland Gorillas.

Cat-astrophe
Protect
RESULTS released by the
animal charity RSPCA show
that, in 2010, the number
of cats attacked in the UK
showed a massive increase. tiger land
In just one year there were 205
reports of cats being shot, and it is MORE than 10,000 wild
believed that many similar attacks tigers could live comfortably
go unreported. There was also an in reserves in Asia, if more is
increase in the number of cats being done to protect their land.
abandoned and badly treated.
This is three times the current
The UK is frequently seen as an
number of wild tigers living in Asia.

Jumbo
animal-loving country, but facts
A new study by some of the
and figures like this say that not
world’s leading conservation
everyone here thinks the same.
scientists shows that if more is done
Now, the RSPCA wants to know
to protect the landscape, it would
why crimes against cats are on
help the pockets of tigers around

cutie
the increase.
Asia link up, and increase the variety
needed for breeding populations.
Small pockets of tigers live in
forests in Asia, as shown in the
historic tiger summit last year.
Experts believe if more is done to
THIS gorgeous baby elephant is the protect the entire area, the future of
newest arrival at Chester Zoo. the tigers will be brighter.
The baby girl was born last week and is the second
calf to be born at the zoo in the last year. Her birth
brings the number of elephants at the zoo to nine.
A spokesperson for the zoo said: “The new arrival
and mum are doing very well, and I am sure our
visitors will share in our good news.”
The baby is already 1m high and weighs
approximately 140kg!
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SNIPPETS
a Dutch prisoner says he should
serve his two-year sentence at
home because he is too big for
his cell. The man is 206cm (6ft
9in) tall and 229kg (36 stone).
usA
Unlucky again
The self-named ‘unluckiest man
in the world’ was recently struck
by lightning while using his home
phone in Florida. In the past, the
unluckiest man in the world has
been locked in a boot, robbed at
gunpoint, stabbed and bitten by
two snakes.
World News
Germany
Tiger treatment
an eight-year-old tiger from a zoo
in Halle is the first in the world
to have her hip replaced with an
artificial one. Girl needed her hip
replacing after suffering serious
pain due to arthritis. It is hoped
that her new hip will help her move
round more easily.
Germany
The heights of love
a car salesman from Gerlingen
decided to propose to his girlfriend
by lining up cars to spell out ‘Will
you marry me?’ The man took his
girlfriend up in a crane to see the
message spelled out below, and
she said yes.
China
Games battle
The Ministry of Culture
announced the launch of its
‘parental watch project’ this
week. The project is designed to
Italy fight online games addictions
and allow parents to monitor
Mummy’s boy
their children’s online habits. The
project requires online game
companies to set up hotlines
a woman has filed for divorce
and web pages to help parents
after one month of marriage, after
supervise their children.
she found out that her husband
was bringing his mother on their
honeymoon. He had secretly
booked his mother into the same
five-star hotel in Paris. The woman’s
lawyer described the man’s
relationship with his mother as an
“excessive emotional attachment”.

Getty
Japan
Pilfering pensioners
according to police, the
number of japanese pensioners
shoplifting has reached a new
Getty

high, with nearly 30,000 arrests

made in 2010. The majority of
those arrested were stealing basic
usA items, such as food and clothing.
Many of those arrested claimed
that they stole because they felt
Bailed out of trouble socially isolated.
The La suburb of Compton,
a crime-heavy area notorious
for its gangs, is also the home
of a successful cricket club.
The Homies and Popz club is
even planning to tour australia,
making them the first american

team to do so. The club has
reportedly helped many of its Bhutan
members steer clear from trouble.
Fag fuss
a Buddhist monk has been jailed
for five years for smoking in
Bhutan. The Himalayan kingdom
believes smoking to be extremely
bad for one’s karma and, as a result,
it banned the consumption and
Getty
sudan
One becomes two
almost all of the population of
Southern Sudan has voted to
separate from the north. after
the results have been confirmed,
it is expected that the south will
formally declare itself to be a
Getty
Bangladesh
Beggar bonus
The mayor of Chittagong says that
SNIPPETS
the city will keep beggars off the a report by Save the Children
streets during the Cricket World Sweden says that 220,000
Cup. They will be paid £1.20 per day children were living in poverty
to stay out of sight of tourists. Do in 2008, and that the number is
you think this is wrong? Take part in

increasing all the time.

sale of tobacco in 2005. separate country sometime in july. our poll at www.firstnews.co.uk.

A KID’S WORLD Find out more about Christian Aid www.christianaid.org.uk

Name: Rachel Rubin Age: 15 Lives: Sudan

RAcheL is the only girl in the class in Primary 7 of Mbara primary school in Mundri county.
Christian aid has funded Mundri Relief and Development association
to build two classrooms with a grant from Band aid and has provided
classroom furniture and text books for the school. With eight year
groups taught at the school, Rachel is looking forward to lessons in a
classroom so that her learning is no longer disrupted when it rains.
across southern Sudan, enrolment rates in school are low and drop-
out rates are high. The standard of teaching is poor and the lack of
classrooms means lessons are often cancelled during the rainy season.
MRDa is responding to this by building classrooms, providing school
materials and training teachers. The existing teachers at Mbara School
have attended short courses to improve their skills in the classroom.
When Rachel Rubin started school there were more than 40 children
in her class. now only four of the other pupils who enrolled with her
remain and not one of them is a girl. Drop-out rates are especially high
for girls. MRDa is encouraging more women to train as teachers at
Kotobi Institute. “It’s good for us to have a female teacher,” says
Rachel. “She understands the problems facing girls and she gives us Rachel and her
words of encouragement.” friends at school
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SpECIAl REpORT
by Hannah Bickers for CEO
CEOp
Safer
Internet
Day 8 February
BloggIng and social networking are fast becoming the quickest and most
common way of chatting to your friends online.
You can share your thoughts and opinions, chat with
friends, arrange parties and share photos so everyone can
see what you’ve been up to.
But what happens when you accidentally put too much
information online, like the name of your school or the
address of the party you’re going to on Saturday night? And
would you know what to do if you posted a photo of you or
your friend online that you wish you hadn’t?
Blogging
Lots of young people share information online and it’s
sometimes hard to know what should and shouldn’t be
posted. It can be fun to let everyone know stuff about you,
but it’s important to know when you should keep certain
things to yourself. Yes, tell people you are going to a party
on Saturday night – but don’t post where it is and what
time it starts. If people want to know, they can contact you!
If you want to blog, there are some things you should
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For more special reports, pictures and videos go to www.firstnews.co.uk/discover
think about first. If you give yourself a username, there’s
no guarantee it can’t be discovered by people you don’t
know. Some blogs can be locked down, so, before you
start writing, check out the privacy settings and change
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SCHOOL NEWS For more news crew, pictures and videos go to www.firstnews.co.uk/news

Special assembly The Chancellor gave me money I lOve singing and I am in the school choir, so I was delighted to be chosen to go somewhere
Our school was treated to a visit from leGOlAND’s
Buddy to launch our 100% Challenge for Attendance. very special.
One day, when I was going to choir, everyone was being Joshua Collins, Hertsmere Jewish Primary
During our assembly with Buddy Ben, Joe, Shauna and
Megan, Year 6, All Saints noisy until our music teacher came in. She said that she School, redlett
and the people from MOTIV,
Cofe Primary School would choose some of the well-behaved children to go on
(which is an organisation that
a special trip. at first I thought it was just to make us quiet chocolate money and he said: “I usually don’t give away
works with primary and secondary
affecting your career as you get but then I realised that she was being serious. I tried my money, but this is an exception,” and we all laughed.
schools to improve attendance
older. very best for the whole session. We had some jam doughnuts, which are traditional
and raise children’s aspirations),
We met alex from LEGOLanD Later on, our teacher told some of us that we had been for Chanukah. after that we had to leave, even though
and LEGOLanD® Discovery Centre
Discovery Centre, who’s got the chosen to do something special. Luckily, I was one of we didn’t want to.
Manchester we acted out some
best job ever – he makes LEGO® them! On Chanukah we get presents for eight nights –
role-play situations about the
models all day! Our head teacher told us that we were going to 10 this happened on night number one. It was the most
importance of good attendance,
alex led a LEGO workshop with Downing Street, the home of the Prime Minister, to sing amazing experience and I will never forget it.
both in school and when we grow
Year 6 after the assembly, where some special songs for a jewish festival called
up and get a job.
we all got to make, and keep, a Chanukah!
The situations were with
LEGO turtle! We had loads of rehearsals and we practised
pupils and workers giving lots of
We will all be doing our best for so long that the day came really soon!
different excuses for either being
this term to make sure we meet When we got there, we each had a photo
late for work or school or, in some
the MOTIV 100% Challenge for outside 10 Downing Street and then we moved
cases, not coming in at all!
attendance! to 11 Downing Street.
We learned that very good
George Osborne, the Chancellor of the
attendance is really important
Exchequer, came to greet us. He gave us some
in our school and work lives,
encouragement and wished us well.
and that poor attendance at
Key jewish people were there, like Esther
school can mean missing out on
Rantzen and the Chief Rabbi and a whole
important learning.
selection of MPs. The Prime Minister wasn’t there
also, not coming to work can
but we didn’t mind as we still saw his wife and
mean letting other people down,
baby. We sang some traditional Chanukah songs
making a bad impression and Alex with Ben and, after that, George Osborne gave us some

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
First look
AnImAlS and films are two of our favourite things here at First news,
so we’re very excited about this summer’s live-action comedy film mr
Popper’s Penguins starring Jim Carrey. Check out these exclusive pictures.
Mr Popper’s Penguins is the story
of Tom Popper (played by Jim Carrey),
a wealthy businessman who inherits six
penguins. The mischievous animals
come to live with him in his plush New York
Mr Jim Popper lives a very structured
life, until he inherits six penguins.
They come to live with him in
his smart New York apartment.
And soon take over his life, in a good way!
stay safe
online!
TO mark Safer Internet Day 2011,
the BBC are running some special
online episodes of Tracy Beaker
to show fans the importance of
staying safe online.
On 8 february, three special, ten-minute
episodes of the hit show will go live on
the CbbC website. Viewers will be able
to pick how the show ends by picking
from a selection of possible story options
throughout the episode.
each of the mini-episodes will focus on a
different aspect of staying safe online. One
focuses on staying safe when chatting to
friends, one tackles cyberbullying and one
discusses illegal downloading.
You can see them online at
bbc.co.uk/cbbc/tracybeaker.
For more entertainment news, pictures and videos go to www.firstnews.co.uk/news
with Serena Lacey
apartment, which is when his life
takes a drastic turn in a very different
direction.
The film is based on a book of the same
title that was originally released in 1938!
Keep checking www.firstnews.co.uk
for more news on the film!
TV, FILM, MUSIC AND THEATRE!
Medieval magic
BRITISH actor Gregg Sulkin has played Selena Gomez’s love interest in
Wizards of Waverly Place, but now he’s up against some medieval magic
in the Disney Channel’s latest movie, Avalon High. We caught up with Gregg
to talk about chain mail, sword fighting and American football!
was cool. It was a great experience for me to
Tell us all about your new film, Avalon
learn a brand new sport and shoot a movie in
High. It’s not your usual Disney Channel
New Zealand, so I loved it.
film is it?
No, definitely not. It’s definitely more mature.
It follows a girl called Allie Pennington who Obviously there’s a medieval theme to the
goes to a new school called Avalon High film. What was it like wearing chain mail?
and she, basically, finds out that her and her It was quite heavy! We filmed all of the
classmates are reincarnations of the King fighting scenes on the beach. It was this black
Arthur story; you know King Arthur and his sand beach, which was beautiful, but in New
court? I play a guy called Will Wagner, the Zealand you get four seasons per day! So,
all-American quarterback. He’s the hero of the we would be fighting in the sun one minute
piece, the guy that everyone kind of looks up and fighting in the rain the next. It was pretty
to. He meets Allie and a friendship begins to intense. We were rehearsing in our tracksuit
develop and there’s a nice big love triangle bottoms and our T-shirts and then we did it
going on in the movie and a huge twist at for real on set and we had all this armour, so it
the end. So the movie has a lot for, not just was much harder than we thought. The chain
teenagers, but adults and families.
It has sport, it has education, it has
a blend of everything anyone could
want in a movie, so I’m very proud to
be a part of it.
Did you have to hit the history
books to do a bit of research
before the film?
I had to hit the gym to get in shape
to be a quarterback! I had to hit the
books a tiny bit regarding the history.
I mean, I knew of the King Arthur
story, so it was nice. I kind of learned
a lot about the story from doing the movie,
which was great. mail was heavy and the armour was kind of
stiff but, overall, we had fun and made it work.
You play the quarterback, but you’re used At the canteen we had to feed each other.
to playing English football. How was that? You’d have someone below you feeding you
I had to learn a whole new sport. It was weird! through your helmet while you had this heavy
The ball is different, and it’s called football chain mail and armour on. It was fun.
over there but I don’t get why they don’t just
play it with their feet! I don’t know why they Did you have to learn lots of new skills for
call it football. I definitely still prefer english the role?
football. It was great, though, with the pads I had to learn horse riding, sword fighting
and the helmets – they kind of make you feel and American football. Also, my main
really masculine and stuff but, you know, it thing was developing my American
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GAME ZONE
With Aaron and Lauren Game testers

SHHH! Our final word on LittleBigPlanet 2 plus some new Disney fun

McFly
Make your
own world
The boy band have decided
to put their acting skills to the
test in the video for their latest
single That’s The Truth, and
they’re doing it by showing off
their emotional side. The track
is all about relationship break-
ups and it’s Dougie who gets
particuarly teary. bless him.
accent. It was the first job I’d had where I had to have one
and I didn’t know I had to have one until two days before
TV on film!
shooting, so that was quite a challenge. I’ve always had a There’s good news for
north London accent. but, as an actor, it’s really important Disney Channel fans this year,
to be versatile and I knew going over to America that there with two major films planned
would be a time when I’d have to do an American accent, as spin-offs from some of
LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3)
so I’m happy I did it. I also did a movie called Camilla the company’s most popular
Dickinson at the end of 2010 and I did an American accent shows. first up, Phineas and
WE’vE been talking about this for ages, so now we’ve got our hands on
then as well. It’s nice to be able to play an english person ferb will feature in their first the finished version, here’s our final verdict.
and an American. movie, followed by a second Sackboy’s second outing is again voiced the hang of, and the graphics are very
Wizards of Waverly Place film. by Stephen fry, and he walks you through impressive. but the new power-ups and
Your character is the most popular boy in school.
all 50 tutorials in the much improved additions are the best things to be put
What were you like at school?
I wasn’t the most popular but I wasn’t unpopular. I mean, Alesha Dixon create mode. in the game. The Controlinator lets you
Now, thanks to the addition of circuit control anything – we made a flying cake!
I had my select group of friends and I still have that same
The singer and Strictly boards, it’s much easier to program traps, The story is lots of fun, but it’s what people
group of friends now. We’re all very close and supportive of
Come Dancing judge has robots, vehicles and anything else that you will make that is really exciting!”
one another. It’s actually the same in LA as well. There are
shown what an animal lover come up with.
five or six of us that will always look out for each other and
she is by modelling T-shirts for There are millions of levels online that
that’s really nice.
animal charity the PDSA. The were created with the first game, but this
two designs feature the slogans new creator should mean that there will
What else is happening for you this year?
‘I Love Dogs’ or ‘I Love Cats’ and soon be even more, and that they’ll be
The fourth season of Wizards of Waverly Place comes to the
UK this spring, so we’re shooting that season. There’s a lot will be sold to raise money even better. RATED!
of twists and turns for Alex and Mason’s relationship. This
season’s more funny. It’s bigger and, you know, I’m happy
for the charity’s pet hospital
appeal. £5 from each T-shirt
sold will go to the charity.
Aaron says: “LittlebigPlanet was an
amazing game, and the sequel is even
better. The controls are easy to get
10/10
that I actually play a character who brings drama to the
show. The show is hilarious but it’s cool to play a werewolf You can buy them online at

Locks
and bring some fight scenes to the show. Also Camilla moreTvicar.com.
Dickinson’s coming out at the end of the year and then
I’ve got the second Wizards of Waverly Place movie. I never
expected to be this busy, so I’m very fortunate.

of fun
Catch Gregg in Avalon High and Wizards of Waverly Place
only on the Disney Channel!

See a video of this interview online at

www.firstnews.co.uk

Tangled (WII)

THE latest Disney movie to hit cinemas is a new version of the Brothers
Grimm fairy tale, Rapunzel.

TOP TELLY! Here, you play as Rapunzel and her

accomplice, flynn. As Rapunzel, you can
Lauren says: ”You can play solo, but it’s far
more fun with two players, as you need two
Burp iS Back use her magical hair to swing and climb, to do the puzzles that take you to the next
Harry Hill is back for another series of his whereas flynn gets to duel with swords. He location and reveal the extras. A really fun
hilarious TV highlights show. Harry Hill’s TV also has an ability to find hidden treasure, game that’s definitely worth playing.”
burp, ITV1, Saturday @ 7.00pm. which is known as ‘‘flynntuition’.
GoinG wiLd You can play with a friend,
brilliant new series looking at the island of and the screen splits if you
Madagascar and the amazing creatures that move apart from each other.
only live there, with David Attenborough. There’s also an option to get
Madagascar, bbC2, Wednesday 9 february @ the two characters to hold hands,
8.00pm. in case you need to guide a mate
FirST nEwS and SkY nEwS past a tricky bit. Voice acting
TV BuLLETin comes from the movie’s stars,
Check out our brand new television news Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi.
bulletin, made with Sky News, especially for RATED!
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first News readers www.firstnews.co.uk/tv
what mark would you give these games?
Let us know at www.firstnews.co.uk/polls
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THE BIG INTERVIEW For more interviews and clips go to www.firstnews.co.uk/discover

The Piers Morgan interview...

I’m amazing at chess – I love it

YOUNG rapper Chipmunk has notched up a string of hit singles, and a string of top grades in his A levels.
After a few months off, he’s back with a new album, new single and new ambitions. He tells us all about them…

Hi Chip! You’re back with a new single.
Tell us a bit about it.
Champion is the first single off my new
album, Transition, and it’s probably my
most heartfelt tune. It kind of explains my
career from the beginning until now. All the
emotions and things I’ve felt, good and bad,
basketball. I wasn’t the best at swimming,
but I am now. I’m one of those people that
will work and work at something until I get
good. That’s me. I wasn’t very good at music
before, either! But I just wanted to work at it
and show people that I could be.
those boundaries. Lyrically, it’s the one.
You sound very excited about it!
Yes, man, I’m gonna be vibing with this CD
everywhere I go. The time off was the best
thing that could have happened to me. It
was the perfect time for me to grow. I’m not

k
If you could be a champion of anything

N
and it just reflects on that. the person in the school uniform anymore.

What was it like working on the new

single and video?
Great! I loved the experience, and making
the video too. Looking back to when I made
my first video with one camera in some
black room, to this one where I am on an
island in Miami and on boats in the middle
of the ocean, it was such an experience.
Priceless.
The video is very glamorous – it looks
like a mini movie!
Thank you. I’m really pleased with it. It was
definitely so much fun to make. The key to a
good video is connecting with the director,
and I did. I would like our director to do
more videos with me in the future.
The video is full of boys’ toys, like
helicopters and fast cars. Did you get to
have a go behind the wheel?
I didn’t get to drive the Lamborghini, but I
got taken for a spin in it and it was pretty
fast. I love things like that. I’m probably
gonna get a Lambo. It’s every boy’s dream,
isn’t it?
The song is called Champion – what
were you a champ at when you were
at school?
Chess! Ha ha, that surprised you! I’m
amazing at it. I like chess. In fact, I love chess.
I was good at most things really – football,
now, what would it be?
Still music, man. I still feel there’s so much
to do and so much to learn. I can’t wait to
see what position I’m going to be in when
I’m 30, ten years from now. I can’t wait. I just
want to push it and push it!
You’re releasing a new album. What can
we expect from it?
Expect to understand me even more. It’s
taking you on a journey in the direction
of what I want to be and to become as an
artist. It’s going to be a really exciting album,
one that really represents me and pushes
I became a young adult. I’ve taken on
responsibilities, you know, and just
moved on with life as a person. C H I P M u
You’ve become a massive star – how
does that feel? Do you still do normal things? Does
your mum still make you do chores?
I live by myself now but of course I do
chores. Me and my friend just kick it at my
house, sit on the sofa, hang out – just like
we always did.
Is it important for you to be a good
role model?
I’m just living my life. If you like the way I am
living it, feel free to copy me, man. I want to
push the boundaries musically and make
people see that not all grime or hip-hop
tracks are negative. It takes one of us to go
on breakfast TV and articulate ourselves
properly, get good grades and then make
songs like Champion. It shows that hip-hop
and grime can be pop tracks too.
What’s the Chipmunk plan for 2011?
I will be touring, definitely. I can’t tell you
when, but there will be a tour. I just want
It’s crazy, man, it really is. It’s not daunting. everyone to hear my album and my story.
It’s just exciting thinking how far I can take
Champion by Chipmunk Featuring Chris
it. It’s always remembering the reason why
Brown is released on 6 February. The album
I came into music was just to write music,
Transition will be released in April.
that’s all. Everything else is second to that.
The red carpets, paparazzi, whatever. I’m just For Chipmunk news and videos, see
about writing music. www.firstnews.co.uk

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Repor
ter

VIP visit... spelling Bee

I WAS really lucky to win a VIP day out to the Wildfowl and Wetlands
Trust at Slimbridge in a competition in First News. Part of the prize was
to adopt one of the birds for my class, 5H at Pitmaston Primary School.
On a cold and gloomy January
morning I went with my family down to
Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. We were
met by the staff, who then took us on a
bird-watching tour.
We were lucky enough to see Bewick’s
swans, teal, the rare lesser scaup and the
greater scaup, geese and other water birds.
Then we climbed to the top of a large
bird hide and saw a merlin, a peregrine
falcon hunting other birds, buzzards and
hundreds of widgeon all out on the Severn
Estuary. After the bird-watching, we went
to a building called the duck house. Here,
one of the rangers showed us how ducks
were measured, weighed and ringed. I was
lucky enough to release a teal, that had
been ringed, back into the wild. I had to
throw it into the air like a rugby ball and
it flew off.
John Crooks, the mammal keeper, gave
us a behind-the-scenes tour and I got to
hold and learn about the newts, toads,
frogs and salamanders in the collection.
My favourite one was the wide mouth frog.
John asked me to choose what animals to
use in the public talk.
After lunch we met back up with John for
a behind-the-scenes tour called Back From
the Brink. This is where all the endangered
mammals are kept.
After meeting the otters Mo, Minnie and
Ha Ha, we were shown a water vole, beaver
and harvest mice. I held a little harvest
mouse who had part of his tail nibbled by
another mouse. He was so small he weighed
less than a 2p coin!
by Adam Innes
When John did his public talk, he asked
if I wanted to help feed the otters. This was
the highlight of the day!
I went back into the enclosure to feed
them trout and frozen fish, although I
did manage to drop the bowl on an otter!
Finally, before we went home, we visited
the tropical house. It was very hot and
steamy and had lots of tropical birds and
plants to look at. This rounded off the
great day out.
I would like to thank Jackie and all of
the staff at Slimbridge, especially John,
for making my VIP visit so unforgettable!
I can’t wait to go back.
Adam and John feeding the otters
winners....
ON 11 January 2011, the four of us were invited to travel to London and
guest edit the Young Times.
This was part of our prize as winners of by Charlotte Oakes, Mrinalini Chakrabarty,
The Times Spelling Bee 2010. At the end Rowan Verity-Pallett and Jessica Llewellyn
of the day, we were given the opportunity
to interview Michael Gove, the Secretary of the building, we entered his office. The
State for Education. interview had begun.
After setting off early that morning, we After our allotted time and several
arrived at Euston station, where we were pressing questions and very interesting
taken to The Times’ offices. answers, our day in London was over.
We had a grand tour of the building and We had an amazing time, and it is
met the editors of the education section, the something that we will all remember for the
Young Times, and the whole newspaper, rest of our lives.
following a delicious lunch.
Then we had a meeting with Daisy The Times Spelling Bee 2011 local
Greenwell, the editor of the Young Times, to heats start on 14 March. For more info
discuss our guest edit. and to practise your spelling go to:
Next we whizzed off for a photoshoot and www.timesspellingbee.co.uk.
a radio interview. After lots of rushing
around, we were
finally ready
to set off for the
Department of
Education.
The building
itself was
amazing – it
was full of glass
lifts and tropical
plants. After
meeting Mr
Gove’s personal
secretary,
and a tour of

Young publishers...
HOW young is ‘too young’ to start a business? I’m Sean Spooner and, together with my business
partner, Louis Porter, we’ve recently been named the world’s youngest publishers.
Around eight months ago, something very strange
happened. While going about our normal day we noticed a gap
in the local market. I know what you’re thinking... how does
that happen?
Well, Louis and I have always had a love for business. It all
started a few years ago with our first venture, ‘Sick Freebies’,
a website giving the people of the UK amazing freebies every
day. However, just like four in every five start-ups,
it failed.
Since then, we’ve worked on a few projects with varying
degrees of success until we finally struck gold.
Our first successful project was Corby Magazine, a local
magazine with an approximate readership of 5,000 people in
our home town of Corby.
We started with no money backing us, no investment –
nothing! We now produce 1,000 copies of our 36-page glossy
magazine every three months.
Now our magazine can be found on iSubscribe, the UK’s
biggest subscription website.
Since then we’ve expanded the Corby brand with such sites
as Photo Corby, Corby’s answer to Flickr, and currently are
developing a unique, locally targeted search engine, which is
by Sean Spooner
believed to be the first of its kind in the world.
Running a business in your youth is both exciting and
educational. People often ask us how we juggle the business
demands with our school work. Actually, it’s easier than you
might think.
In school, Louis and I study media, business, photography
and hospitality, all subjects which tie in neatly with the work
we do for Corby Magazine – which means that, by the time
it comes to doing the work at school,
we’ve already had valuable real
life experience in many of the
areas we are studying to guide
us. So, in many ways it’s
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If you have a great idea,
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could happen is that it might fail
but, at such a young age, you’ve very Sean and Louis recently won the Children and Young People’s
Partnership Young Entrepreneur Award and have featured
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we’d started earlier! Our Corby Magazine
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SCIENCE For more science news, pictures and videos go to www.firstnews.co.uk/discover

Kompetenz-Zentrum Medien,
Universität Tübingen Sony announce
new hand-held
The tools found at Jebel Faya

early human
toolkit found
ancient stone tools
discovered by scientists
have shown humans could
have left africa up to
65,000 years earlier than
previously thought.
A “toolkit” found at the Jebel Faya
site in the United Arab Emirates
included hand axes and various
tools for scraping and cutting.
Although scientists argue about
dates, it was generally accepted that
the first humans left Africa around
60,000 years ago. However, analysis
of these tools showed that they are
between 100,000-125,000 years old.
The researchers say that the tools
are much more like the ones used
by early humans in Africa rather
than those in the Middle East.
Writing in Science, the researchers
say that sea levels at the time would
have allowed humans to cross from CHECK IT OUT
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across the Bab al-Mandab Strait. The NGP has two cameras (front and back) and has to take part in our poll
gyroscopes and accelerometers to allow tilt control

juSt days after nintendo revealed more details of the 3DS, Sony have released pictures and more information
about their own new hand-held, the next Generation Portable (nGP).
Sony plan to get their new gadget in the now a touch screen. The back of the NGP also content and your saved games. Sony say
Kompetenz-Zentrum Medien,

shops before Christmas and, although it looks has a touch pad, and Sony claim that the new that this will let them increase the memory
Universität Tübingen

like the PSP, there are lots of differences.
The main one is that instead of just one
analogue slider, there are now two analogue
sticks, just like on standard PlayStation and
Xbox controllers.
The dig site at Jebel Faya in
the United Arab Emirates
The display is bigger than the PSP’s and it is
oval shape makes it easier to hold.
In addition to Wi-Fi, the NGP will also have
3G, and you’ll be able to connect to friends
even if you’re playing different games.
Instead of discs, a new flash memory card
will hold a game and any new downloadable
of cards in the future to allow developers to
make bigger and better games.
What do you think? Are you excited about
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let us know.

A galaxy I can’t get home,

my nose is blocked
far, far away italian researchers say that pigeons with
a blocked right nostril struggle to find their
the hubble Space telescope has seen way home quickly.
what is thought to be the furthest There are many theories about how birds can
known galaxy. navigate over long distances, but some scientists
Scientists looking at data from the Hubble Ultra think that pigeons use their sense of smell to make a
Deep Field say that light from the galaxy took 13.2 mental map of scents in their area.
billion years to reach us. As the universe itself is only In tests, scientists blocked either the left or right
13.7 billion years old, such distant galaxies are very nostril of pigeons. Then they released the birds in
important for scientists who want to find out more Cigoli, 40km away from their
about the early universe. home in Pisa.
The galaxy, known as UDFj-39546284, is thought The pigeons that had their
to be quite small and compact, and made up of blue right nostril blocked stopped
stars. Scientists writing in Nature say that the galaxy more often, took fewer direct
is around 100 times smaller than our own Milky Way. routes and took longer to
Later this decade, Hubble’s successor will be get home. The researchers
Pigeons are thought
launched. The James Webb Space Telescope will be say that this shows how to make a map in their
at least ten times more sensitive than Hubble, and The main section is the Hubble Ultra Deep NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa
Cruz), R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz,
important the birds’ sense of heads of the smells
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Field, with two close-up views on the right and Leiden University) and the HUDF09 Team smell is to their navigation. near their home
will be able to see further back in time.
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GREEN NEWS
with Gabrielle Utton What’s in season?
Do you see vegetables or do you see dinner?

Give us your green views

Here at First News we know that our readers are an
intelligent lot, and an environmentally-aware bunch too!
Lots of you have been logging on to our website,
www.firstnews.co.uk, to comment on green
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Chocdragon, 11, wrote this article (and drew an
eco logo, right):
What do you see when you look at the pictures below? at first glance
you might just see a bunch of green, white and red food. But look again.
In a short space of time, and with a couple of other ingredients, these
vegetables can be turned into potato and leek soup, roasted parsnips
and potatoes with steamed cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower smothered
in onion gravy, or even stewed rhubarb and custard! a perfect feast, all
grown in the UK and ready to eat now!
Thanks,
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another
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Do your bit for the environment! old, Redhorse10,

I try to be eco-friendly, and I would like to
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When you are walking through the park, does
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your bit for the environment and pick it up!
Brushing your teeth? Do your bit for the
environment and turn the tap off when you are
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(Sorry if anyone finds my article a bit
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anything. I am just trying to spread the message
of being eco-friendly!!)
left this comment: “It’s not pushy, it’s helpful and
informative! I myself am not that green, but I
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recycling and turn off lights… I guess I’m greener
Parsnips Cabbage
than I thought!”
Other readers have also given their opinion on
helping the planet:
Teatowel, 9, says: “I want there to be a ban on
plastic bags from shops.”
Kathcake says: “Everyone needs to recycle. It
Potatoes Leeks
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a person, the toy owners get pictures and reports of their toy
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What do you think? Have you taken your favourite toys abroad
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and we’ll put them in a gallery on our website! CHUCKLES

Rubbish hotel
Girl: i’m never going to do well in the
Spelling Bee contest.
Mum: Why?
Girl: They keep changing the words!

A FiVe-room hotel made entirely of rubbish has

B...E...E!
opened on a beach in Madrid.
the corona save the beach Hotel has been made from 12 tonnes
of rubbish collected from beaches around europe. It was designed Q: What do you call cheese that you do
and created by a German artist called HA shult to raise awareness of not own?
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each year, the corona save the beach campaign visits a different

Ringing croc
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A CroCodile at a zoo in Ukraine has got a ringing in Q: What is a snake’s favourite lesson?
her belly after swallowing a mobile phone. A: Hiss-tory
A tourist at the zoo in Dnipropetrovsk was leaning over the
enclosure to snap a picture of the crocodile, Gena, when she
slipped and dropped the phone. It was quickly swallowed by the Hiss-
curious croc. tory
Keepers didn’t believe the tourist when she said the croc had
eaten her phone, until they heard a ringing sound from the
creature’s belly. However, the phone has made the crocodile ill and email us your jokes to
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taking her for an X-ray this week if she doesn’t start eating.

Written and illustrated by Paul Palmer

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For some of you, you will be awaiting that you’re sending a Valentine’s card.
eagerly this year’s 14 February – especially that way no-one else will find out if you
if you will be sending your first Valentine’s don’t get one back! it’s also a good idea
card – the excitement of buying the card, to protect yourself by not signing it with
planning what you are going to write, your name. after all, the original idea
posting the card and, hopefully, receiving behind Valentine’s Day was to secretly tell
my parents separated just after Christmas. I thought they would sort it out, but I have just
a card back from your Valentine. However, someone that you like them. again, no-
found out that my dad had an affair, and he is now living with her and says that he loves her. for some of you, Valentine’s Day can be a one else will find out if you don’t get one
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it sounds like this is a difficult time for you. it or teacher? it sometimes helps to talk about how What if you don’t get any cards? or because there is no-one that you like
is never easy when parents separate and it can you are feeling and work through your worries. worse, what if you send a Valentine’s Day at the moment. Don’t worry. Valentine’s
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wondering if there is anyone you trust enough call free on 0800 1111 if you feel this would help, the person you sent your card to! it’s a knows, there may be someone you like
to talk to about how you are feeling, like a friend or you can go online at www.childline.org.uk. good idea not to tell the whole world next year.

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My dad is my
sporting idol Did you
know ?
judo was developed by the
japanese education expert
jigoro Kano. after taking
degrees in literature and
philosophy, he started to teach
Josh’s aim is to become an judo in 1883.
Olympic judo champion

FAMILY and sport go hand-in-hand at David Lloyd Leisure. Team Family at David Lloyd Leisure has been launched to raise awareness of the vital role
sport can play in family life, and the importance of parental support in the future sporting involvement of our younger generation. Professional judo
competitor and David Lloyd employee Josh Ramm explains why keeping fit is important and how much his family supports him.
Why do you need to do exercise to be When did you first realise you had a champion. I have achieved this several the most successful judo player that Great
good at Judo, and what other factors help talent, and in which sport was it? times and I then aimed to get a medal in Britain has ever produced. My parents have
you to beat your opponents? I was picked for the Great Britain judo team the European Championships, which I did also really influenced me and they have
I use the David Lloyd Leisure facilities to at the age of ten and then the Great Britain when I won silver. My next aim is to become played a massive part within my sporting
maintain a high level of fitness and power wrestling team at 13. My father was a European Olympic champion! career. Without their help, I don’t think I’d be
before, and after, a competition. It’s really freestyle wrestling champion and British where I am now.
important to have strong legs, as the aim of champion, so he introduced me to both sports. Who is the most influential person
judo is to get your opponent to the ground. in your career to date and why? For expert fitness advice and to read
The stronger your legs are, the more stable What was your ultimate goal when you My dad. If it wasn’t for him, I would never more about the other athletes who are
you are and the more power you have to were younger and has it changed now? be where I am today. He is my sporting idol! part of the David Lloyd Team Family,
knock their legs and get them on the floor. My goal was to become the Great Britain I also really admire Craig Fallon, as he is visit www.davidlloyd.co.uk/teamfamily.

SPORT NEWS IN NUMBERS PICTURE OF THE WEEK

1 shot is all that stopped
13-year-old new Zealand star
1 is the number of
domestic UK rugby matches
Lydia Ko (right) from becoming to be played abroad.
the youngest ever winner of a Harlequins beat Wasps 38-
professional golf tournament. 13 in a match this week that
She finished the Women’s new was played in abu Dhabi.
South Wales Open on ten under
par, just one stroke behind
Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall.
51 runs is how many
England lost their latest

32 one-day international by.

Getty
is how many times in That put australia 4-1 up
a row Rangers have played and put the series out of
Motherwell without losing. England’s reach.
Rangers won again this week,
7
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booking their place in the Co- is the number of F1

operative Insurance Cup final world titles that Michael
with Celtic. Schumacher has won.

2 is the number of times

that justine Henin (right) has
However, it was revealed
this week that even he gets
carsick in a simulator. a
retired. She had only been Mercedes GP spokesman
back in tennis for a year when said that this means
she announced her second Schumacher has to limit
retirement this week. Sadly, an the amount of time he
elbow injury means that she will spends in their simulator.

206
quit for good this time.

2 is the number of years in

a row that Peter Waterfield has
goals were
scored with the right
foot during the first three
beaten Tom Daley in the 10m rounds of this year’s Fa
platform event at the British Cup. just 100 were scored
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Tennis fans from Andy Murray’s home town of Dunblane walk home after
national Cup. with the left foot. watching Murray lose the Australian Open final on TV in the local pub
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with Toys go What’s

Ian Eddy 23
travelling 18 in season? 17

Did you
know
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
?
lost three Australian Open
finals from 1971-73, but then
went on to win it for four years
in a row from 1974-77.
Jumping Jones
British snowboarder Jenny
Jones has won silver in the
slopestyle event at the Winter X
Games in the Us.
Jones won the slopestyle event in the
previous two years, but was beaten to
first place by Finland’s young star Enni
Rukajärvi.
To see Jenny’s first run in the
final, see the sport section of
www.firstnews.co.uk/news.

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Jones takes on a jump
at the Winter X Games

Record signing

Djokovic
for Chelsea
Chelsea broke the British
transfer record this week by
paying a reported £50m to
capture striker Fernando torres

destroys Murray
from liverpool.
The 26-year-old Spain international
signed a five-and-a-half-year contract
with the London club.
The deal was sealed just before the
transfer deadline on Monday night.

down under
The transfer meant January’s
spending in the Premier League
reached well over £200m.

Andy Murray looks dejected

after another point slips by

andy Murray’s wait for a first grand slam title will go on for at least another few months, after being soundly
beaten by novak djokovic in the final of the australian Open.
With Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal already knocked out, Murray by ian eddy
had his best chance so far of winning one of the four grand slam
titles. Unfortunately, Djokovic performed better on the day and won In the women’s final, Kim Clijsters beat Li Na to claim her fourth grand
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6-4, 6-2, 6-3.
The defeat was Murray’s third in a grand slam final. He made the
Australian Open final last year, but was beaten by Federer. Murray’s
other major final, the 2008 US Open, also saw him lose to Federer.
“I think he has everything it takes to become a grand slam
champion,” said Djokovic. “I’m sure that very soon he will be.”
Murray took the defeat well, but was obviously hugely
disappointed to have fallen at the last hurdle.
slam title. Li was the first Chinese player ever to reach a grand slam final
and did well to win the first set, but she eventually lost 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Clijsters had earlier made a bet with her coach that she would
shave her head if she won the tournament, but she seems to have
avoided going through with it so far.
Clijsters’ previous three major titles have all come at the US Open,
and she says that her desire to win Wimbledon is one of the main
things that drives her.