first news issue 291 jan 6th 2012

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2012THE YEAR

WHEN

THE WORLD SEESBRITAIN

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THE OLYMPICGAMES COMETO THE UK FORTHE FIRST TIMESINCE 1948

THE QUEEDIAMOND JUBIL

CELEBRATHER 60 YEARS

THE THRO

Mr Cameron said 2012 must be the year we go or it and promised hisGovernment would do everything it takes to get Britain up to strength.

Cameras, TV channels and the eyes o the world will be on Britain or

two extraordinary events this year.

There will be three days o celebrations rom 2 June or the QueensDiamond Jubilee, commemorating her 60 years on the throne.

Then, rom 27 July to 12 August, London hosts the 2012Olympic Games, ollowed by the Paralympics rom 29 August to

9 September.

Mr Cameron said the events gave Britain the chance toeel pride in who we are and what even in these trying

times we can achieve.

When speaking about trying times, the Prime Minister was talkin

about the money problems the UK has been having, along with manother countries.

This means that many people are worried about jobs and paying bMr Cameron said: I know much needs to change. Weve got to do

more to bring our economy back to health.

I know how difcult it will be to get through this. But I also knowthat we will.

THIS will be the year Britain sees the world and the world sees Britain, declared Prime Minister David Cameron i

New Year message.

by editor Nicky Cox

ps) And Simon Cowell returns to Britains Got Talent see page

The weekly newspaper for young people


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Piggy bank winnr

WERE pleased to announcete winners o te piggybank competition or tecarity PiggyBankKids.

The panel ocelebrit jdges,inclding Alesha

Dixon, DavidTennant and First

News editor Nick

Cox, chose ThomasWades pigg bank

as the overallwinner. He will receive the top prize

o a amil trip to LEGOLAND, plus a

subscription to First News, a box of

books for his school and a Nintendo

Wii games console.

Runner-up prizes went to Bertie

and Vilu Borodi and Francesca

Skillicorn.

Ring found on carrot topA WOMAN wo lost erwedding ring 16 yearsago was amazed to fnd itaround te top o a carrot iner garden!

Lena Paahlssonrom Sweden lost

her ring when she

took it o to dosome cooking. She

now thinks the ringmst have been

mixed p with

some potato peelings that weretrned into compost and pt on

her garden. Sixteen ears later, thecarrot grew throgh the ring and it

ond its wa back to its owner.

FIRST NEWSHEADLINES For he es on hese hednes, go o www.frsnews.o.uk/

FirstNews Issue 291 6 12 JANuARy 2012

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Special stamps for 20COLLECTIONS o special stamps will bereleased trougout 2012 to mark te bigevents appening tis year, te QueensDiamond Jubilee and te Olympic Games.

The Hose o Windsor stamp collection willinclde all ve kings and qeens who have reigned

since the start o the 20th Centr. The last in theseries will be or crrent qeen, Qeen Elizabeth II,

in celebration o her 60 ears on the throne.

Six portraits o the Qeen, taken rom stamps,coins and banknotes will appear on a sheet o

stamps in Febrar.There will also be or series o stamps celebrating

the London 2012 Olmpic Games. The rst o theseries went on sale esterda (5 Jan).

Other stamp collections or 2012 inclde a set

celebrating the books o Roald Dahl, incldingJames and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Foxand the

Twits. The 200th anniversar o the birth o athor Charles Dickwill also be honored with a collection o stamps in Jne.

IN BRIEF

THIS WEEk IN HISTORy

On 11 Janar 1962, a hge

avalanche o rocks and ice, romthe extinct volcano o Hascaran,

engled several villages in Per.Arond 4,000 people are thoght

to have died.

Royal names top listThE names o te royal princes, William and harry,topped te list o most popular boys names in 2011.

The princes names

shared joint rst place

in the list o birthsannonced in The Timesnewspaper. It cold

be that parents were

inspired b the roalwedding last ear, as all

o the top ve namesor bos were names

o roalt. Ater William

and Harr, the next mostpoplar names were George, Henr and Edward, which are all the

names o kings rom histor.However, there wasnt sch a roal theme with the most poplar

names or girls. There were onl two bab Catherines in the list and nobab girls were listed with the name Kate.

The name Isabel took the top spot or girls, ollowed b Alice, Emil,

Sophia and Matilda.

Harry and William were the most popularnames for baby boys last year. Catherine

or Kate was not as popular for girls

The winningpiggy bank, by

Thomas Wade

FOUR million recipe cards are being given out to people as part o a new ealty eating campaign, launcedon Monday.

More than 1,000 spermarkets are also

oering disconts on health ingredients

like rit, vegetables and oghrts aspart o the Department o Healths

Change4Lie campaign.Its all part o Government eorts to

get amilies to eat more healthil. There

are worries abot the growing nmbero ver overweight and obese people,

particlarl children.An online recipe nder will accompan the

recipe cards to help amilies plan cheaper,more ntritios meals.

One hndred thosand copies o a brandnew cookbook with celebrit che Ainsle

Harriott will also be pblished. It will contain

a months worth o poplar, health recipes,all or nder 5, to help amilies make the

most o the deals available at their localstores.

Pblic Health Minister Anne Milton s

The New year is a good time to think a

losing weight. The Spermeals campaiwill give s all some great ideas or bal

meals on a bdget.The disconted ingredients are avail

Asda, Co-op and Aldi stores across Eng

What wold help o to eat more

healthil? Go to www.frstnews.co.uk

tell s.

by editor Nicky Cox

Stam

celebrOlympParal

The ring on acarrot top!

Happy new yeardinne


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Kyli Minog

The pop princess song

Cant Get you Out Of MHead has been named

the most plaed tne o

the last ten ears. Thesong was a No1 in the

uK in 2001. The secondmost plaed song was

Britne Spears single Toxicrom 200Robbie Williams Angels was in third

FIRST NEWSHEADLINES For he es on hese hednes, go o www.frsnews.o.uk/

Editor Niy cox

gOOD WEEk FO

SuBScRIBE FOR HO

EDITORcOmmEN

FirstNews Issue 291 6 12 JANuARy 2012

hAPPY New Year to you!I loved looking at the pictres on p

o this weeks First News showing the

years Eve celebrations arond the wThe dawn o a new ear alwas comhope or a good and llling ear ah

Im writing this in the First News newthere is a erocios wind otside. So,

see the wind as blowing in or ace holding o back? Or do o eel it b

o, propelling o orwards to or

this ear? yor choice2012 shold be an extraordinar

Britain. There are lots o challenges as becase o the mone problems t

contr has been acing, along with

other contries.Bt it shold be a prod ear too, w

both the Qeens Diamond Jbilee aOlmpic and Paralmpic Games mea

ees o the world will be on Britain.

So, what are or hopes or 2012? W

to s at [email protected] p2012 in the sbject box. Or send me message on Twitter @Nick_FirstNew

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STUDENTS at Oakfelds Community College in Middlesbroug are oping to get a ead start in business, by

learning about it as part o teir classes.

Business booming at school

Stop live animal trade

BRITAINs largest dog, Samson, asnt ad a very active start to tenew year. Te poor pooc is resting up ater breaking is toe!

No new year walkies

Samson with his owner, Julie

Millions o arm animals are transported across the world ever

ear on jornes that in some cases can last or weeks. Grops

like Compassion believe that the trade in live animals is inhmane

and shold be replaced b a trade in meat.Peter Stevenson, Chie Polic Advisor at Compassion in World

Farming, said: Animals can ser terribl rom the strain and stress

o live transport. Investigations b animal welare grops haveond cramped, overcrowded conditions, no access to water so

animals ser rom dehdration and even occasions when the are

so hngr the are orced to eat their own lth bedding. Somecollapse onto the foor o the trck where the are trampled b their

companions. Others get injred or ill. In the worst cases, man die.

Last ear almost 80,000 sheep and ong calves, onl a

ew weeks old, were transported rom Britain to the Eropeanmainland, three times more than in 2010.

It is also hard or armers to be sre their animals will be hmanel

treated when the arrive ater sometimes grelling jornes. For

example, investigations have revealed that Astralian sheep andcattle that are exported can be badl treated in abattoirs in the Middle

East or Sotheast Asia. Animal welare campaigners hope that 2012will be the ear when long distance live animal transport is ended.

Find ot more at: www.ciw.org or www.stopliveexports.com.

by Jon Bennett, Compassion in World Farming

Samson, who is a Newondland and

Great Dane cross, weighs a massive 20stone (127 kg). He broke his toe when

he was on his wa home rom a morning

walk with his owners, Ra and JlieWoods, at the end o last ear. Jlie

said: He sddenl elped and startedwalking on three legs. We dont know how

he did it. Ra had to hold him p to get

him home.This isnt the rst time Samsons ond

himsel in troble. In 2008 he damaged

the ligament in the back o his leg. Lckil

a newspaper ran a campaign to help himand raised over 4,000 or his treatment.

This time, Samsons injr sholdnt be

so expensive to x, bt he will have togive p walkies or a while. Lckil, one

o his avorite places is sitting on the soaalongside his owners.

Jlie said: Everone who knows

Samson wants him to get better soon.A big Get well soon rom everone at First

News, too!

The programme began in the year 8 Germanclass, where stdents are learning how to

speak German and how to rn their own

bsiness at the same time. For the last ear, theclass have been setting p a compan that sells

German tos. In November last ear the made250 selling the tos at Middlesbrogh trade

air. Twelve-ear-old Eden said: Beore, we

didnt think mch abot German, bt now wedo becase o can se it as a lie skill.

Bsiness is booming in other classes, too.English stdents at the school are planning to

sell some o their creative writing as eBooks

and a year 9 design grop are setting p amail-order plastic crocker bsiness. Two

15-ear-olds at the school have even startedp their own bsiness, ater developing an

iPhone app that helps stdents manage

their homework.The school hopes that learning abot

bsiness earl will give the stdents a betterchance o getting a good job, especiall as the

Northeast has the highest nemploment

rate in the contr. One o the goals o theschool is to teach that: With the right skills

and qalications, o can work or orseland emplo other people.

Wold o like to learn abot bsiness

as part o or classes at school? Tell s at:www.frstnews.co.uk.

COMPASSION in World Farming launced its 2012 campaign against long distance live animal transport tisweek, wit Joanna Lumley unveiling teir new bus adverts in Traalgar Square, London.


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Droughtin Afghanistan

What is the situation

in Afghanistan?In l othe aghist, the wethemttes.

Fmilies livig i emote moti

villges el o i to gow ood d,whe wite comes, the sow cts them

o o moths. The ood theve gowllows them to svive the wite. Withot

it, the c be sowed i o weeks

withot spplies.Whe the is didt ll i 14 povices

o aghist lst e, milies kewthei cops woldt gow. The kew tht,

withot cops, the wold hve othig

to sell, o moe to b spplies d ostoes o home-gow ood. ad the

kew tht, whe wite ived, thed be

let despetel shot o the bsics theeed to svive. The kew ll this btthe cold do othig bot it. Shotges

o cops met tht pices beg to

icese; the little moe tht milies hdws ot eogh to od soght-te

ood spplies. now, s the fst sowsbegi to ll, millios o people e cig

wite withot eogh to et.

Changing diet

Sve the Childe wok i aghisthelpig milies led cig w d

teible povet. I the oth, whee the

doght is wost, pets

hve told s tht thehve othig to eed thei

childe bt bed d te.Vegetbles, oce pt o

the dil diet, e occsiol tet, d

met hs become lx ew c od.as Sve the Childe wok with childe

ll ove the wold, we kow howdgeos sch diet c be. Gowig

childe eed ll sots o dieet oods

to be helth. Too mch o oe thig islmost lws bd thig. Whe thee

is ol oe ood vilble, like bed,childe become ill d, i aghist, it

c be hd o the pooest milies to fd

medicl tetmet.

Why is it soserious now?

The mbe o childe i aghistwho eed to see docto o se

becse the dot hve eogh ood isgowig. I the wost cses childe cold

die becse the i the el o o ood

didt ll.

Greater effects

Jst s bd, the wells villges el o o

dikig wte hve died p. We kowmilies e led wlkig miles to fd

cle wte to dik bt, s the weth

gets wose, the coce is tht the wisk dikig dit wte the th

log teks thogh the wite stoms

How are Save theChildren helping?

Sve the Childe d othe id

gecies e led helpig miliescght p i the doght, doig o

to mke se the childe hve eo

et to svive the bitte wite.Wee givig moe to milies who

eed to b ood, d specil emege

st om Sve the Childe hve tvto aghist to wok o helpig the

milies get thogh the wite.

Race against time

We kow we hve to ct st to get

to the millios o people who eed it

is ce gist time to ech miliebeoe the sow does. O wok will s

thosds o lives.as chit, tht wok is pid o b

people od the uK, people who

believe, i 2012, tht o child sholdbecse ot eogh i hs lle.

BEHIND THEHEADLINES

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THE NEWS IN PICTURES New Years Eve around the world

For more pictures and videos go to www.frstnews.co.uk/news-in-pictures


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Althogh it

sods gross,maggots have

bee sed toclea wods

or hdreds o

ears, especialli remote

locatiosdrig wars.

Maggots arethe larvae o ies, which sall la their eggs i

aimals. The maggots release a chemical ito th

esh, which gradall breaks dow eogh so tca eed o it. Sice maggots dot eat live esh

meas that the ca be sed to clear awa a drotte esh arod a wod.

I tests with 119 woded me i hospital, m

treated hal o them with srger ad hal with Ater a week, there was less dead esh i the wo

treated b maggots. The wods had also healemore tha i the patiets treated with srger.

Stragel, eve thogh all o the patiets i th

experimet were blidolded, arod hal rom grop said that the had a eelig like somethi

crawlig arod i their wod.

telling s bf s fk w r wy

r br rss r, v f s ss.

Thats what scietists have od b

scaig the brais o 14 people. Thevolteers were show varios paitigs

b Rembradt, some that were real adsome that were high-qalit akes.

Whe told that a paitig was geie,the volteers brais showed icreased

activit i the regio that sall deals with

rewards, sch as wiig a bet or eatigor avorite ood.

However, i the were told that a pictre

was ake, a totall dieret part o the brailit p i the scas. This area is associated

with plaig ew strategies. Thevolteers all said that the were trig to

work ot wh the pictre was ake.The researchers sa the reslts show that

there ist jst oe area o the brai that

deals with or impressios o artor beat.

Maggots medicine

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Earthqakes i Idoesia i 2004,Chile i 2010, ad this ear i Japa,

have led some people to sggest that

the rate o large qakes is icreasig.Scietists decided to test that

theor b lookig at all o the largeqakes that happeed worldwide

betwee 1900 ad 2011.

The od that it is hard to workot a accrate rate o whe large

qakes happe, as there have olbee 16 with a magitde o 8.5 or

more sice 1900.It was also od that the rates

or the more reqet, smaller

earthqakes is prett mch thesame as it has alwas bee. So ar,

o-oe has come p with a phsicalexplaatio or how this rate cold

sta the same i larger qakes were

becomig more reglar.Several o the largest earthqakes

have come i the last te ears, sothis clster looks like a icrease to

hma ees. However, mathematical

tests show that the clster doestmatter statisticall ad that the times

o large earthqakes ollow a radom

patter.

The riskof quakeshasntgone up

Aristotle Contemplates the

Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt

Getty

SCIENCE For more science news, pictures and videos go to www.frstnews.co.uk/dis

Didyou

know?The most deadl earthqake

i histor happeed o 23

Jaar 1556 i Shaaxi,Chia. 830,000 people are

thoght to have died ad thetremors were elt 800km awa.

Are texts ull o fbs?

FirstNews Issue 291 6 12 JAnuARy 2012

Why dont we like fakes?Maggots can he

faster than s

people r r ky rks xs r s w yr k s rs,

r v .

Thats the mai reslt rom a recet

experimet with 170 stdet volteers at theuiversit o British Colmbia i Caada.

The were split ito two grops ad asked

to pla a game or moe. Some wold sellshares i a fc tioal compa, while the others

wold decide how ma shares to b. Thetwist is that the sellers were told that, at the

ed o the game, the shares wold lose hal

their vale. The bers didt kow this ad

hoped that the wold make some moe.The sellers commicated with their bers

i oe o or was: ace-to-ace, o the

phoe, or b video or text chat.At the ed o the game, the bers were

asked to report whether their seller had liedto them abot the vale o the shares. The

bers who got iormatio b text were 95%

more likel to have bee lied to compa

video chat. The were also 31% more likhave bee told fbs tha those who had

to-ace deals, ad 18% more tha the p

who spoke o the phoe.Scietists sa that the video made sel

more aware that the cold be beig wwhich lowered their desire to lie. Expert

this the spotlight eect.

A man pays his

respects after

the devastating

earthquake in

Japan in March


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Week In general

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Home News

Lollipop honour

Lacashis lgst-sig

lllipp lady has ackwldgd i th Qs

nw Yas Hs list. I

rid has ad a mbeat wkig 43 yas as a

lllipp lady. Sh said: Pplsay I ds a dal t I didt

xpct t gt !

Station thefts

A list all th its stl plic statis i th last

yas has ald.

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stl, agig a 2.50 cp c t a 10,000 plic

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th wst hit c, with a patl

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icld a packt cpts,a aqi ad a cpy a

atiqs gid.

Wildcat winters

rsachs ha discdthat Scttish wildcats ay

stggl t gt t at hay

swall. Th d 2011saw Sctlad laktd with

hay sw t caa tapsthat sally capt iags

th wildcats didt spt ayat all. oth pdats i th

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ad it is lid that ly 400p wildcats still si.

OUR STORIES For more home news, pictures and videos go to www.frstnews.co.uk/

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Avalanche deaths

Two skiers have died in separate

avalanches in remote areas othe contry. One grop o skiers

was dropped into a wild areao the Selkirk montain range,

which is away rom the normal

skiing resorts. Three bried skiersescaped, bt one man wasnt

so lcky. In the other incident, aman was trapped overnight and

died beore he cold be resced.

Pigg pong

A cort in the town o Osnhas given a armer permis

to carry on eeding his pigonions. Neighbors claime

the smell o the pigs trmoverpowering, so the conbanned the armer rom

onions. However, a cort hnow decided that there is

evidence that the onions ablame or the stench.

Wandering kitt

A cat that escaped rom his new

home in Florida has trned p

over 3,000km away in Colorado.

Waylon escaped jst 30 mintesater being taken home rom ashelter in Naples back in Agst,

bt vets in Colorado scanned his

microchip to nd ot who hisowner was. Its still a mystery as

to how he got so ar.

Ship in pieces

The stranded cargo ship Restill stck on a ree o the

o the contry, nearly three

months ater it ran agronWaves have battered the s

mch that it has split in twSeveral more containers ha

allen overboard and at lea

one pengin has died in thweek ater being covered i

My stepather was shot and his leg badly damaged. Thedoctors had to amptate it. He was in hospital and nable to

care or me.I was orced to live on the streets. I made a little money by

washing dishes. One day I won a school niorm. Even thogh

I wasnt registered at a school, I wore it and sneaked into class.The teachers didnt notice becase there were 80 children in

the classroom.I washed that niorm in the river every day. Sometimes I had

to wear it when it was wet, which made me sick. I had to workagain to raise money or medicine.

One night, sta rom Street Child o Sierra Leone ondme. Im so glad they did. They spoke to my stepather and

convinced him to let me come home. Now they are helping

him pay or my school.We live on an amptee camp with other people who lost limbs

in the war. Lie isnt easy bt, or now, I am happy and prod.Street Child o Sierra Leone saves hndreds o street children

across Sierra Leoneeach year. It provides

conselling, clothing,medical care, ood and a

sae place, and nites children with a amily member or

It also nds the childrens retrn to edcation or traininoers ongoing nancial spport to their amilies.

Yo can nd ot more abot Street Child o Sierra Leowww.street-child.co.uk.

GLOBAL STORIES For more world news, pictures and videos go to www.frstnews.co.uk/

SNIPPETS

A an o Dutch ootball club

Ajax has been jailed or ourmonths, ater he attacked

the goalkeeper o rivals AZAlkmaar. The goalie got a red

card or fghting back.

SNIPPETS

A 64-year-old Australian masays that he is still turned do

or jobs because he has a crrecord or swimming with n

clothes on when he was jus

years old.

Missing millions

Experts say that there is still 5.67

billion o old German money thatpeople havent exchanged or eros.

The Detschmark was replaced

by the ero ten years ago, whenthe new crrency was introdced

throghot Erope.

Arson investigation

Police have been holding a man in

cstody as they look into a stringo arson attacks in Los Angeles and

Hollywood. Dozens o res havebroken ot in recent days, most

o them in cars that were parkedotside their owners homes.

Dogg armour

To protect dogs rom wolves, a

hnter has created new bodyarmor or pooches. The coat has

pockets lled with red-hot spices,

so that any wolves trying to bitethe dog will be warned o. The

pockets also contain antireeze tokeep the mixtre liqid.

Town captured

Ethiopian troops have taken overthe town o Beledweyne. The town

was previosly held by rebels rom

the Islamist al-Shabab grop, whichoccpies mch o the contry.

The rebels were orced to fee atertroops ponded the town or hors.

Cclist crackdown

The rst increase in cyclingpnishments in 12 years has seen

some nes doble. Oences thatwill now cost more inclde cycling

on pavements, jmping a red light

or sing a phone while riding. Thecontrys main cycling grop said

that the nes are way too highand that Parliament is sing a

bazooka to shoot a btterfy.

Mushroom mistake

For people have been taken to

hospital ater mistakenly eatingdeath cap mshrooms. The or

thoght they were eating thepaddy straw mshroom, which is a

common delicacy in Sotheast Asia.

The death cap has claimed at leastthree lives in the last ten years.

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Name: Jose Julius Conteh Age: 14 Lives: Makeni, Sierra Leone

My ather drowned when I was oung. M mother remarried but, during the war, soldiers attacked our village.The set fre to our house and killed her.

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ANIMAL NEWS For more animal news, pictures and videos go to www.frstnews.co.uk/

FirstNews Issue 291 6 12 january 2012

sick coral reef

New Year dietIF you still havet take dow your real Christmastree ad wat it to go to a good home istead oladll, you might wat to look to your local zoo.

Pigto Zoo i Devo is skig o old Chistms tee

dotios o thei imls. The tees will be sed to eich thehomes o ll sots o imls, om meekts to tpis.

Phil Kowlig, spokespeso o the zoo, ss: The Zoo c

mke se o old Chistms tees, so log s the hvet beesped with ke sow, glitte o eedle gle, s ll o these

m be toxic.The locl Scot gop will be collectig tees o 7 d 8

j o the Zoo o miimm dotio o 5.I o dot live close to Pigto Zoo, wh ot spek to

o locl zoos to see i the c se old tees o thei imls

isted o sedig them to ldll. CORAL rees i Florida sufered more damage i2011 tha i the previous six years, accordigto studies.

The etie Floid ree tct, which speds coss270km, is the ol livig ee i ameic d, i 2011, ll o

it sfeed om col blechig.Col blechig hppes whe col ees e stessed

o tmtised. The elese the colol lge tht livewithi the col shell, mkig them look wshed ot o

bleched. This c hppe o lots o esos d leds

to the ees becomig sick o eve dig. This i t willfect the sh popltios o the ee d hs domio

efect o the ecosstem.Expets thik the blechig i Floid m be liked to

oe o the hottest es o ecod o the e, which will

hve ised the se tempete slightl.

An overweight oraguta is startig 201lighter ater beig rescued by Mokey WApe Rescue Cetre i Dorset.

Oshie the Boe ogt hs shed mz

( qte o he bod weight) sice she ws tke

pe esce cete i 2010.Oshie ws esced om home i Soth aic

she hd bee pet o 12 es. Whe she ws escweighed moe th doble the tl weight o

ogt, te beig ed sweets d pocessed o

most o he lie.Oshie ived t the cete t d helth.

movig ito ew home with ve othe ogtstted etig helthil d execisig with he ew

She hs eve stted cig o ophed bb ot the cete. Oshie c ow climb, pl d eo

level o tess. jst like hms, it is bd o pes to

oveweight, s the sfe om poblems like het

Tree recycling!

What will

go extinctin 2012?

I the lst 100 es, od 10,000

species hve goe extict d moe epedicted o 2012.

The Globl Species assessmet hs

bee pt togethe b CosevtioItetiol.

amog the imls t isk this ee oe i thee mphibis, lmost

hl o ll ttles d totoises, oe

i eight bids, oe i o mmmls,

pls lot o plts.

Species goig extict c be dow tolots o ctos, bt most e the lt o

hms. Polltio, loss o hbitt d

htig e thee o the mo ctostht fect the popltio o species.

Wht do o do to help theeviomet d iml species? Emil

s t [email protected] to

tell s!

First News webeditor Nic Williams

tree is perfect forrecycling

Pre Davids deer and Scimitar-horned Oryx(main picture) are both considered extinct inthe wild but could disappear totally in 2012

A LIST o all the aimals that are so edagered they may go exticti 2012 has bee draw up.

MonkeyWoldaperescueCente

Oshine is ftter

after her new diet


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Yu ave crazy as. Wat kid tigs d tey d tsee yu?

Edward: At nighttime they put masks on o us and comespeeding down the motorway and ollow us to our hotel.

They check into the same hotels and stu.

J: Whats really cool is that, at the beginning, they wereall ans o us but now they have become the best o riends

with each other. They all share the same interests, they loveme and Edward. Were kind o making people come together.

Yuve perrmed udreds times w. D yu getcritical yur w per rmaces?

J: I think me and Edward never go: Ohmygod, we weregood! I eel like we are critical o ourselves because, i were

not, then you just stay on one level. I think you have to keepimproving all the time. Youre never going to be perect, so

why not keep pushing yoursel in the right direction?

Edward:We just want to keep working and putting positivevibes out there. The advice we always give to people is

whatever you are doing, just to keep doing it.

J: No matter what, even i youve had no sleep, you justhave to give it the best you can and keep going.

Yure style ics d yu tik a lt abut watyu wear?

J:We still like to look okay, but were not obsessed withwhat we wear or anything like that. I ts so cool that people

want to look like Jedward.

Edward: Big hair is cool. Touch it, its not crunchy, its springy.

(First News touches Edwards hair and can confrm it is

springy) There are loads o ways to do it and usually it takesabout ve seconds. You just get loads o stu and put it in it.

Usually it turns out okay. Occasionally it is disastrous. I thathappens, we just put a hat on.

J:You can have dierent types o Jedward hair. Loads

o girls want to touch our hair, and they scream when they

touch it too. Big hair is cool. The Jonas Brothers have big hair,Justin Bieber has big hair. The Beatles had big hair.Edward:Imagine i we did a movie.

Erm, kay. Is tat i te plas?J: Imagine us in a Disney movie!

Edward:Wed love to be in a Disney movieand go to all the awards shows and go up the

red carpet and meet loads o amous people.Like Demi Lovato.

J: Id like to do something like Camp Rock,

but Id like to do something serious too.Edward: Id like to have our own TV series

too, that would be so cool. Like Friends, orsomething like that. One o those shows that

you can watch over and over again.

D yu tik yull ever get bred

ame?Bt: No!

J:Well never get bored because we dont

see ourselves as amous. We just take everyday as it comes. What happened yesterday is

history and everything that happens tomorrow is a

D yu ever get bred eac ter?Bt: No!

Edward:That is such a weird question. We never gebecause weve been with each other since we were

J:And we were premature. We were really, real

and in incubators. Then, when we got bigger, we usgo outside and climb trees, ash trees, and have mu

play hide and sneak. We were always outside. We w

inside watching TV like lots o kids.Edward:We were meant to be born in January but

born in October.

Wat wuld yu say t kids w wat t be aJ:Aspire to be you and always think o the posi

keep things as simple as a pimple.

Edward:You need to go out and realise that just byyou and thinking on another level makes you cool

own right. Dont think you have to look this way or way just because someone in a magazine looks tha

Being you is enough.

J:You need to keep your own thing. You just ne

realise that people who are being mean to you at s

not because o you. Its them. We didnt really t in either! Could you imagine i they ound a new plan

bought it? That would be so cool.Edward:Planet Jedward isnt really a planet, its a li

choice. What rules shall we make?

J:I think everyone would be crazy. The crazier tIt would just be random.

Jedwards album Victory is out now.

FirstNews Issue 291 6 12 JANUARY 2012

ENTERTAINMENTNEWSwith Serena Lacey

Theyre on o t mot ccl X Factorconttant eVer o w gabbd fvmint wit Jdwad to kick-tat 2012 wit a dobl do o n!

Being you is enough

Its not quite a Disney movie, but Jedward dressed up as Disney

characters to launch the Disney Universe game at the end of 2011

ThE Borrowers is e te mst lved stries all time, abut te tiy peple w brrw tigs rmumas. Cristper Ecclest plays Pd Clck i a brad-ew versi te flm, s we caugt up witim r a quick cat abut playig a Brrwer.

I few out o a drain!

Are yu a a te Borrowers bk?

The Borrowers is one o the very rst books I remember reading

as a child, and I loved it. As a child, i I liked a book, I tended tokeep reading it. The lm is a contemporary take on the story

and still retains all the original elements o the book, which isreally about a loving amily a dad learning how to let go o his

daughter so that shell come back.

Wat was it like playig Pd?

As the book was such an important part o my childhood, Iwas very amiliar with the character o Pod. Ian Holm, who Ive

worked with, is one o my heroes, as is Jim Broadbent bothantastic actors, so it was nice to think that Id play a role that

those two great actors have played. Pod borrows his clothes

rom an action gure o the 80s, perhaps loosely based on acharacter rom Raiders O The Lost Ark. I think that appeals to

Pods image hes quite an adrenaline junkie, he likes risk andadventure. Pod is also a lovely dad, and a hero. Ive played lots o

troubled men and anti-heroes, but Pods a straight hero. Theres

a great sense o humour to him, and a gentleness. Thats what

attracted me to the role.

Did yu get t wear ay cl cstumes?

Pods costume is very torn, tattered, spattered in mud, and hal

hanging o him. Hes a typical ella, hes not too concernedwith what he looks like. When they go on this extraordinary

adventure, Pod is reduced to rags really. Hes nearly dissectedand his shirt is taken o him by the human beings he starts

o pretty Harrison Ford-ish, and ends up like Steptoe and Son.

Wat was it like perrmig te stuts i te flm?

Playing the role o Pod is unlike anything Ive done beore.There was a huge amount o green screen. Ive done little bits o

green screen in the past, but not that much. I would say its themost challenging role Ive done physically, because one o the

conditions or me playing the part was that I did all the stunts.

My avourite stunt was where I ran

along a gigantic bookcase and justthrew mysel into mid-air and onto a

crash mat. I was very excited aboutdoing that and they had to tell me to

stop because I kept doing it or un.I also ew out o a gigantic drain into

12t (3m) o milkshake mix, but that was

not as pleasant.

Te Borrowers is released on DVD on

9 January


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TOPTELLY!magIc Search

Four new celebrities battle it out towork out who is the best magician

among them in this new live series. The

Magicians, BBC1, Saturday @ 6.35pm.

Ice Ice BaBy

Its back! Fiteen new celebs will taketo the ice to try to be the next ice

champion. Hosted by Phillip Schofeld

and Christine Bleakley. Dancing on Ice,

ITV1, Sunday @ 6.30pm.

TV, FILM, MUSIC AND THEATRE!

SHHH!CELEb SPLITS

Two high-prole celebrity

romances came to an end

over the estive period.Both Katy Perry and Russell

Brand and Gethin Jones andKatherine Jenkins went their

separate ways. The splits wereannounced on Twitter.

JAY-Z

Rapper Jay-Z will beperorming at two charity

concerts this February tobenet children rom poor

homes. Jay-Z said: That really

bothers me someone whoreally applies themselves

and wants to go to collegeand they cant urther their

education because o theirsituation, because o moneyor because they have to

stay in the house to watchtheir siblings. The star says

he wants children to haveopportunities he didnt

growing up.

MARVIN &ROCHELLE

JLS singer Marvin Humes

has asked girlriend Rochelle

Wiseman rom The Saturdaysto marry him. The pair got

engaged just beore NewYears Eve while on holiday in

Antigua and announced it onTwitter by posting a pictureo themselves toasting with

champagne (below).

2012 trailers!hE frst trailer r te rtcmig flm Teobbit: An Unexpected Tale as bee released.

Film ans have eagerly been awaiting their rst glancethe new movie, which is out in December. Other big

ms have also released their trailers, including the newtman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, which is released

uly.The next year looks set to be a great one or lms, with

s o new releases to look orward to, including The

nger Games, The Amazing Spider-Man and the nalm in the Twilight Saga series.

Check out the trailers or all the l atest releases online atww.frstews.c.uk.

Martin Freeman plays Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit

Under the Sea

Amazing new series looking at the complex

underwater ecosystem that is the Great

Barrier Ree in Australia.Great Barrier Reef,

BBC2, Friday @ 7.00pm.

ce dancers revealedhE best tig abut Jauary is tat Dancingn Ice is back!

The show starts this weekend, so check out the line-up

ow. With lots o ab celebs involved, who do you wantwin? Tell us online at frstews.c.uk/plls.

GAME ZONE

The rst thing to say is that the PS Vitalooks and eels pretty much like a PSP, but

with a sleeker design and rounder edges.

The obvious new change is the addition othe two analogue sticks. This is mainly to

make it easier to play rst-person games,which are quite dicult on the PSP or DS.

Games will be released on 2GB or 4GB

memory cards, so theres no slot to useyour UMD PSP games.

The Vita has a touch screen, but also a

rear touch pad. We werent sure at rsthow the rear touch pad would work,

but two games made us realise why itssuch a genius idea. The Vita version o

LittleBigPlanet (above) looks great, but

theres a point early on where you seeblocks o dierent sizes and shapes in the

background and a platorm out o reach.Using the rear touch pad, you have to

push the right blocks through to make a

staircase or Sackboy, which adds a newtwist to the LBP world.

Little Deviants is a unny collection omini-games, including some augmented

reality shooting games similar to thoseon the 3DS. But theres also one (below)

where you have to guide a ball-shaped

characterto the end

o eachlevel, which

you do by

putting yournger on the rear pad. This pushes the

ground up and causes you to roll downthe hill youve just made. Its tricky at rst,

but pretty cool and unlike anything weve

played beore. Theres also a game in awrestling ring, where you have to use one

hand to pinch the ront and rear o theVita, which twangs your character o the

ropes and into your opponents.Vita also has a gyroscope and

accelerometer, which means you can

tilt and turn it to play things like Super

Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz(below),

which is alot o un

and ans o

the seriesshould love it,

especially the

way you can make your own levels upictures you take with Vitas cameras

One o

the manystunning-

lookinggames we

tried wasWipeout 2048 (above), the latest vero the uturistic racing game with spe

hovercrat. It looks really crisp and esatisyingly speedy. Oh, and get this

can race against someone whos play

the same game on the PS3.Beat-em-up ans will love Reality

Figters (below), which lets you use Vront camera to take a picture o you

which youcan use

as your

charactersace. Then

you can usethe rear camera to set the location o

ght, such as your room or garden.

One o the most unusual games wwas Gravity Rus (below). Its a myst

manga-style action game, which givyou the ability to change the directio

gravity and do some really powerul

attacks. You also have a talking cat anstory is told in a dark comic-book sty

Denitely one to look out or.

Racing ans will be blown away byRacer(below), which looks antastic,

especially when you watch a replay oyour slick overtaking moves (or crash

Everything we played looks great,

the screenis bigger

than thePSPs

and thequad-core

processor means that the graphics a

pretty close to those on the PS3.A pretty useul eature is the ability

use text or voice chat with your mateeven when youre playing ofine or

playing dierent games. And the pric

Well, the basic Wi-Fi model is going tbe around 230, with a 3G/Wi-Fi mod

costing 50 more.

SonYS ew ad-eld csle, te PlayStati Vita, will be i s

22 February, s we spet a leisurely ater puttig it trug

paces t give yu ur verdict.

Whats

Vita

like?

We try out Sonys new console

Back Rw: (let to right) Coronation Streetstar Andy Whyment,

Blue Peterpresenter Andy Akinwolere, TV presenter Mark Rhodes,

Hollywood actor Corey Feldman, ree runner Sabastien Foucan,

TV presenter Sam Nixon, singer Chesney Hawkes (although as

First News went to press he had injured his leg) and Emmerdale

ctor Matthew Wolenden. Frt Rw: (let to right) Hollyoaks star

orgie Porter, actress Jennier Ellison, British skier Chemmy Alcott,

Sugababe Heidi Range, tness guru Rosemary Conley,

actress Laila Morse and Dallas star Charlene Tilton.


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How dos it l now you hav

announcd you splitting up?Well, its ne, you know. I think we all eel

like were doing the right thing and its

the right time. Weve spent a long timededicating our lives to Westlie and to each

other. I think weve all kind o come to thestage where were all wanting to spend

more time with amily and things like that

and it ust kind o eels right. We eel likeweve been to so many places and done

things wed never thought wed get to do.We never wanted it to end badly, we always

wanted to end it as riends. Weve managedto do that ater 14 years, so we really eel like

weve made the right decision.

Dos it still l lik youv got quit along to way go, with th tou nxt ya?

Yes, it is a bit like that. I dont think it eels

real to us at the minute. None o it eels real,

because were still in the middle o it. Were

in the middle o the promotional tour andwere doing interviews all the time, were

talking about it all. It s so strange, but Idont think weve really realised what weve

achieved and I dont think weve realisedwhat weve been doing or the last 14

years. Were ending with a big concert so,

when it all comes to an end, itll be quite anemotional moment or us all. Then its going

to be interesting. Itll be an awkward ewmonths, seeing what its like to live without

Westlie. Thatll be when it becomes real.

Youv just lasd you gatst hits

album. Was it a tough job dciding whichsongs to includ?

We ust said put everything that weveever released on this album. There are twodiferent versions o it theres one thats

got the denitive hits, all the number ones

and the big singles. We wanted to make sure

all the big moments are on there. Then theywere like: Were going to leave of songs

that were number two. But, i it was numbertwo, why wouldnt we put it on? So it was a

little bit unny in that way, but theres alsoanother version that has literally all the

songs ever released. That is amazing, and

its got every video weve ever made onthere as well, so thats the lump package

and thats the one to go or, its brilliant.

How long would it tak to listn to that

whol album thn?Id say probably our hours. Three to our

hours. Maybe more!

Do you hav you own psonalavouit song o vido om th pa st?I think songs like Flying Without Wings and

You Raise Me Up and World Of Our Own.Those three songs are massive moments

in our career and they still eel like werecorded them yesterday. So, rom that

perspective, theyre amazing songs,

but then I remember I loved shootingFool Again of the rst album in Mexico.

There were so many diferent thingswe did over the years and its ust crazy

looking back on it and tr ying to pull out

moments that were betterthan others.

Wstli a th longst-unning

boy band. Why do you think it is that

youv had such a succssul ca oso long?

I genuinely believe its because we ustdidnt argue with each other to the

point o disliking each other. We neverlet things escalate. We had a genuine

riendship with each other. From the

early days that was the natural thing th

happened. And, you know, we knew wwe were. We werent one o these boy

that were trying to be something wer

We werent trying to be cool and hip atrendy. We werent trying too hard. Weknew who we were and we stuck to it.

didnt try to change it. We are about ba

mid-tempo, up-tempo songs that we lthat are ust good un. And I always th

we were ust ourselves. We were neverWhat you saw with us was what you go

always ust tried to be ourselves.

You Gatst Hits Tou in 2012 is g

to b amazing. Why is it so impotantyou guys to kind o do that tou?

Its a big thank you really and its a trib

to our ans, to ourselves. Its a pat on thback. Its a celebration. It s a celebratio

about what weve achieved as a band.celebration about what the ans have g

us. We want to go out on the tour and want everybody to have a great time. W

want it to be happy memories.

Westlife Greatest Hits is out now!

ATer 14 yas as a band, Wstli a going thi spaat ways. With thi Greatest Hits album, last singl and

awll tou in th piplin, th boys a saying goodby to thi ans. W caught up with Kian to talk about

th nd o Wstli.

It doesnt feel real

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ImagIne wht your li would b lik i youd vr

hd th chc to o to school. For o thi, its ulikly

you would b rdi First news!

Struggling

to go toschool

How many children across theworld are in school?

Around the world, more than 69 million children o

primary school age are not in school. Thats more than theentire UK population.

One reason that so many children miss out on aneducation is because its too expensive or their amilies to

send them to school.

Although school is ree in the UK, it isnt in many poorcountries, so amilies have to cover the costs o school ees

as well as uniorms and textbooks. For many o the worldspoorest amilies, who struggle to survive on less than 1 per

day, these costs are too high.

Even in places where school is ree, the quality o teachingis oten so bad that many parents eel they would be better

o sending their children to work instead.

What can the UK do to help?

The UK Government believes that helping children

around the world to get a decent education is the best wayto fght poverty.

Thats why, over the next our years, British aid will beused to help 11 mill ion o the worlds poorest children go

to school, and train more than 190,000 teachers, to improve

the quality o education.

Samias story

Samia is an 11-year-old who lives with her

mother, our brothers and three sisters in the

slums o Rawalpindi Pakistans ourth-largestcity.

Her amily is very poor their small home inthe slums has just one room.

One third o Pakistans population live in

extreme poverty. This means more than 62million people live on less than 30 pence a day,

and regularly go hungry. 17 millionchildren in Pakistan do not go to school.

Why is it difficult forSamia to go to school?

Like many poor amilies, Samiasmother, Yasmeen, has struggled to give

her children an education. She earns just 48 per

month working as a cleaner.When Samias ather died a ew years ago, her

older brothers dropped out o school so theycould go to work and help Yasmeen earn money

or the amily.

Samia would have missed getting an educationtoo, i it wasnt or the special vouchers her amily

started to receive rom an organisation calledthe Punjab Education Foundation, which is

supported by UK aid.

Yasmeen uses the vouchers to pay th3 it costs each month or Samia to go

school in Rawalpindi.

I get a good education at my schoolSamia. My avourite subject is English

want to be a doctor when I grow up.Yasmeen is very happy that Samia ca

to school. She didnt get an education like hal o all adults in Pakistan, she ca

read or write.

My younger kids will get a goodeducation, get a better job and have a

uture, says Yasmeen.

What is the future for

pupils like Samia?UK aid is transorming the lives o mo

than 300,000 children like Samia, by he

them to get an education. This will increase to our michildren across Pakistan over the next ew years.

Getting more children into school means more peopgrow up with the skills needed to help Pakistan work i

out o poverty.And that means Pakistan will gradually become less

dependent on aid rom countries like Britain.

Getting more kids into school is just one way UK aidhelping to change the lives o some o the worlds poo

people. To fnd out more, visit www.dfd.ov.uk.

SPECIAL REPORTby Nicola Burroughs, DFID

Samias mum

VickiFrancis

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New Year

It is geat that yo have sch a good elationship with yo

gandpaents. Yo ae vey lcky. Thee ae lots o ways yo

cold ty to keep in toch with them, sch as phone, intenet,lettes, and even live web chats i yo both have access to a

compte. Have yo had a chance to talk to them abot how this is mak ing yo eel? Yocold come p with a plan with them to keep in toch on a egla basis. I bet they will

miss yo jst as mch! Yo cold ty setting little goals o yosel, sch as the next time

yo see them o ae going to talk to them, instead o ocsing on the negative aspects.

And think abot the geat holidays yo can have visiting them! Change is diclt toadapt to and this might be challenging at st, bt it shold get a little easie with time.I yo wold like to talk abot this, yo cold call ChildLine ee on 0800 1111.

Im Esther Rantzen, President ChildLine, which helps 2,500 childreneer wee. I theres sethin wrrin u, please write t e at

the address belw.

my briend has just duped e and I cant stp crin. He has ased a riend ut nwwants t sa es but desnt want t upset e. I culdnt bare the thuht. Hw shuld I

the situatin?

What should I do?

ASK ESTHER Withthanks to

EvERy ear I ae at least ne New years reslutin and I neer anae t stic tit. Hw can I nd the willpwer t cit t it this tie?

Lots o people have plans at New

Yea o vaios New Yea esoltions.Howeve, sometimes it is diclt to stick

to them and, by the end o Janay, theyae ogotten! I yo eally want to keep

a New Yeas esoltion, it is impotant to

make yo esoltion manageable. I it is

something nealistic, yo will nd it vey

diclt to stick to. Also, it might help tomake it something that is an enjoyable

expeience, sch as playing moe spot?This way yo will have moe chance o

enjoying it and llling yo esoltion.

Good lck!

This sonds like a diclt sitation o yo at the

moment and it is complicated when othe peoplesdecisions ae ot o yo hands. It seems that yo

have spoken to yo iend abot this, which is a

good place to stat as she will be able to make adecision while having yo eelings in mind. Have

yo thoght abot talking to yo ex-boyiendand letting him know how pset yo ae ove this?

He might not ealise how his actions ae a

yo. It is impotant to think abot yo acbeoe yo do o say anything, so that yo

something yo eget. It might help to ha

at the ChildLine message boads at www

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thogh the same thing and have any othadvice. Good lck.

FirstNews Issue 291 6 12 JANuArY 2012

Wanting a petLookINg ater a pet can be reat un and there are lts diferent tpeu can hae.

A pet is also a big esponsibility to take onso, i yo eally want one, having the backing

o yo paents o caes is impotant. Maybe

yove been asking o a pet o ages and iteels like all yo eve hea is: Well think

abot it!Thee cold be good easons why yo cant

keep a cetain type o animal in yo home.Maybe someone yo live with is allegic

to them o whee yo live doesnt sit that

animals needs like having a big dog in a topfoo fat.

Anothe big thing to think abot is wholooks ate yo pet eeds them, cleans ot

thei hose o takes them ot o a walo the time it cold be yo, with some

om the est o the amily, bt thee m

times when yo aent aond, like i yoholiday o ae nwell.

And, nally, pets can be expensive anpobably be an adlt paying o a lot o

pets cae. It may be a good idea to ask paents o cae to sit down and talk th

all the isses aond having a pet. This

show matity and that yove eally ththings thogh. And dont oget to che

websites that oe geat advice on k eepets, like www.rspca.r.u.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

What do you do to help ght climate change? How do you get your riends, amily and

school to do their bit too? Tell us and First News readers. Log on to www.rstnews.c.uk/iscver, or write to [email protected] or the address on page 21.

NASA has sai that by the year 2100,climate change will have aecte hal the plant species n Earth.

with Keilly SwiftGREEN NEWS For more green news, pictures and videos go to www.frstnews.co.uk/disc

Grn Qun

The researchers used a computer modelto help predict the changes to plant lie as

the temperature on Earth rises because o

greenhouse gases produced by humans.They ound that many plant species will

nd it hard to survive and others will haveto move to diferent areas to nd a climate

they are suited to. Most o the Earth thats

not covered by ice or desert is expected toexperience changes.

Its not just plant lie that would be

afected. The supply o oo

and energy would change

humans and animals wou

adapt how and where theJon Bergengren, a scien

led the study, said: For mo

25 years, scientists have w

o the dangers o human-climate change.

The researchers say the shows how important it is

temperatures on Earth risi

The hydoelectic tbines, called

Achimedes scews, have been installed in

the romney Wei on the rive Thames. Theywill not only powe the castle, bt also moe

than 300 homes in the aea.Windso Castle isnt the st oyal esidence

to se eco-iendly powe. The Qeen aleadyhas a hydoelectic plant at he esidence in

Balmoal and Pince Chales has sola panels

on his estate.Hydoelecticity is not only good o the

envionment, it also helps to save money onelecticity bills. This will please the Qeen,

who has been tying to ct back on the cost

o the oyal amily, as the economy is so weak.The latest poject also helps ive lie, as a

sh path has been bilt alongside the wei.

This allows sh and eels to migate p the

ive o the st time in hndeds o yeas.David DeChambea o Sotheast Powe

Engineeing, the tbine develope, said the

royals wee qietly excited by the poject.

Big changs ahafor plant earth

WE hae alwas been clse t ur randparents and seethe eer da. The are in t lie in Spain in a ew

wees tie and I a dreadin nt bein able t just ppin t see the. I reall dnt want the t . Abbie, 13

Ill miss them!

WINdSoR Castle, ne the Queens cial resiences, is being pwereby hyrelectricity nw an ec-rienly way t generate pwer rm

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My best friend Ella nominated me. Weve been BFFsfor years and have been through a lot together. After herkidney transplant at eight, she needs to take regularmedicine and I make sure she takes every dose.

Ella had to submit a picture of us both and a briefdescription of why I deserved to be Britains Best Friend.Amazingly, we were chosen by My Blue Nose Friendsand celebrity best buds Twist & Pulse as one of the tenfinalists, from over 1,000 entries! Ella and my mum had

kept it a secret from me in the beginning, so I was totally shocked when I found out!The ten finalists were put to the public vote next. As the weeks went by, it looked

like Ella and I were going to win but, as it was the public voting, we didnt want toget our hopes up! We couldnt believe it when we were told we had won!

Setting off to school that morning was really exciting and nerve-wracking. Weknew that there was a school assembly dedicated to us and that we would have tostand up and accept our prizes, including lots of My Blue Nose Friends goodies.

Im honoured to be Britains Best Friend. I just did what any friend would do, butI think its really important to be loyal and care for your friends.

Everyone needs friends and it doesnt really take much to be a best friend.

As if that wasnt enough,afterwards I had tickets towatch Federer vs Nadal (Federerwiped the floor with him,unfortunately) and a doublesmatch at the glitzy O2 Arena.It was a great experience, almostlike a West End show. I reallyenjoyed it. They were all solovely and welcoming as well as showing great sportsmanship.

The Ball Kids were very professional, patient and eachmovement they made was precise and perfect. You could sensetheir effort and determined focus through their silent presenceon the court, a result of the long training programme that they gothrough.

Thirty boys and girls aged 12-16 were selected out of 2,500hopefuls.

The chosen Ball Kids, after a final selection at a boot camp inLondon, had a weeks intensive training to participate in theworlds largest indoor tennis tournament, the Barclays ATPWorld Tour Finals.

The Barclays Ball Kids are working with the eight best tennisplayers in the world. This marks a wonderful achievement forthem and an experience that they wont ever forget.

ON Tuesday 22 November I waslucky enough to win a competitioninFirst News to meet the Barclays

Ball Kids at the Barclays ATP

World Tour Finals tennistournament and join in with a training session.

by Maddi Ribton


FndrairMY favourite charity is the WDCS, acharity to help save whales and dolphins.Through the WDCS I have adopteddolphins Lightning and Stardance, to help towards saving

these beautiful creatures. I would like to be a marine biologist

when I am older so I can study all marine life to help preserveour oceans.

by Frazr Dal

I have loved dolphins ever since Iwas very young. I think that theirsmiley faces, mischievous behaviour,trustfulness and super intelligence arewonderful. When I was eight, insteadof presents, I asked all of my friendsfor a donation and gave all of mybirthday money to the WDCS, which raised about 80.

I have seen captive dolphins and didnt like it. The pool that they werekept in was small and boring. They were almost never given any freedomand, when they were, it was to entertain humans.

I wanted to raise some funds for the WDCS again, so I chose to set upa stall, because I had lots of used and unused toys and games that I had

saved for this event.My dad and I headed to the local church to set up our stall. There were

lots of other stalls. As the day passed by, our stall became the mostvisited. I handed out all the leaflets on adopting dolphins that theWDCS had sent me and displayed some posters. By the end of the daywe had raised 60.

Seeing dolphins in the wild is a much more pleasant experience.Dolphins leap and twirl on their own because they want to in theirnatural habitat, not because they are made to. We need to help whales anddolphins because it would be a tragedy to lose them from our seas andrivers forever.

For more news crew, pictures and videos go to www.frstnews.co.ukYOURNEWS

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I HAVE just found out that I have won 30,000 for my

design idea, The Snug Hug, and have been presented with the cheque at event at my school.

All of this first came about in June whenmy teacher told me about a competition bySound Asleep, who were searching for younginventors to come up with an idea for a sleep-related product.

I immediately knew I wanted to create atravel product aimed at children, and wasinspired by animal toys and photos Id seenof monkeys holding their young in the wild.

My idea The Snug Hug is a child car seat accessory that gives the impression thesitting on the lap of a giant soft toy, to encourage theto travel.

When I heard that Id won and that there was going be a presentation at my school, I was amazed! It wouldfantastic to see The Snug Hug go into production andby Sound Asleep.

I cant thank them enough for the way this competiinspired me and other young inventors across the couIts definitely going to take a lot of beating, thats for

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