http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7801082.stm
Summary:
Anti-fur campaigners were protesting as singer Katherine Jenkins opened the Harrods winter sale. The protesters thought it was ridiculous that Katherine opened this sale because the singer always said she was against animal cruelty and the fur trade and Harrods is the major store in the UK who sells fur. The campaigners didn’t understand why ms Jenkins didn’t refuse Harrods’s request to open the sale while singer Leona Lewis did.
H Katherine Jenkins’s reaction to this protest was that she still doesn’t eat meat and won’t ever wear fur but that she accept people’s decisions to wear fur and that’s why she opened the winter sale at Harrods.
Opinion:
I wouldn’t make a big issue about this case but I can understand the reaction of the anti-fur campaigners. A person who always said that she is against animal cruelty and the fur trade has to remain by her standpoint. So I don’t think it’s logical that she opened the winter sale of a store who is well known of its fur while she is against fur. In her reaction she told the people that she accepts people’s decisions to wear fur and that’s why I don’t think she is really against it because otherwise she wouldn’t accept it. Maybe the campaigners feel a bit betrayed by Katherine after this happening.
zondag 28 december 2008
City hit by ‘legal to pee’ prank
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/7798194.stm
Summary:
Pranksters in Nottingham have put up signs in Nottingham which said that it’s legal to urinate in certain public places. They look very real and official with a toilet on the sign and the logo of Nottingham City Counsel. Nottingham City Counsel is not that happy with the action of the pranksters because it’s still illegal to urinate in public. A spokesman said that people who prosecute this will make an offence. The Counsel of Nottingham is now taking away all signs and asked the residents to contact the city counsel when they spot new signs so that they can be removed.
Opinion:
I think the pranksters did a good job to make this issue public in Nottingham. Especially because they designed the signs in a professional way so that people took the signs serious. I don’t think it would be a bad idea to make certain public places where people have the opportunity to urinate or make some of those places legal in the weekend when a lot of people go out. At those moments people urinate the most so I think placing public urinate places only in the weekend could be a solution to prevent nuisance about this issue. I think when public places like that exist in the city people will use them instead of an arbitrary wall.
Summary:
Pranksters in Nottingham have put up signs in Nottingham which said that it’s legal to urinate in certain public places. They look very real and official with a toilet on the sign and the logo of Nottingham City Counsel. Nottingham City Counsel is not that happy with the action of the pranksters because it’s still illegal to urinate in public. A spokesman said that people who prosecute this will make an offence. The Counsel of Nottingham is now taking away all signs and asked the residents to contact the city counsel when they spot new signs so that they can be removed.
Opinion:
I think the pranksters did a good job to make this issue public in Nottingham. Especially because they designed the signs in a professional way so that people took the signs serious. I don’t think it would be a bad idea to make certain public places where people have the opportunity to urinate or make some of those places legal in the weekend when a lot of people go out. At those moments people urinate the most so I think placing public urinate places only in the weekend could be a solution to prevent nuisance about this issue. I think when public places like that exist in the city people will use them instead of an arbitrary wall.
dinsdag 9 december 2008
Upper crusties
Posh kids causing airport chaos
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2018479.ece
Summary:
At Stansted airport in Essex was a demonstration against climate change what caused 150 delayed or cancelled flights. This airport is Britain’s third busiest one. Armed police took five hours to recover the chaos at the airport and charged about 56 youth who were protesting. Protest group Plane Stupid wanted to make people aware of the pollution in the environment caused by airports. Four of the arrested protesters from the Plane Stupid are posh children, for instant a baronet’s granddaughter and a grandson of the late Labour peer Anthony Greenwood. The arrested youth will have to appear in court in December.
Opinion:
I think it’s a good thing that Protest groups like Plane Stupid exists. Like in this case a lot of other people do agree with this group’s statement without doing anything about it, so for those people it’s a benefit that this group object to climate change. But I think there are lots of other possibilities to make their statement clear to the whole country without blaming so many people like they did with protesting at the airport. It’s the same problem as in Thailand a few weeks ago, innocent people have to deal with the problems which protestor are provoking. In such cases I don’t think an airport is the right place to protest despite of the fact they reach at the same time a lot of attention by the media.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2018479.ece
Summary:
At Stansted airport in Essex was a demonstration against climate change what caused 150 delayed or cancelled flights. This airport is Britain’s third busiest one. Armed police took five hours to recover the chaos at the airport and charged about 56 youth who were protesting. Protest group Plane Stupid wanted to make people aware of the pollution in the environment caused by airports. Four of the arrested protesters from the Plane Stupid are posh children, for instant a baronet’s granddaughter and a grandson of the late Labour peer Anthony Greenwood. The arrested youth will have to appear in court in December.
Opinion:
I think it’s a good thing that Protest groups like Plane Stupid exists. Like in this case a lot of other people do agree with this group’s statement without doing anything about it, so for those people it’s a benefit that this group object to climate change. But I think there are lots of other possibilities to make their statement clear to the whole country without blaming so many people like they did with protesting at the airport. It’s the same problem as in Thailand a few weeks ago, innocent people have to deal with the problems which protestor are provoking. In such cases I don’t think an airport is the right place to protest despite of the fact they reach at the same time a lot of attention by the media.
zaterdag 6 december 2008
Woman held as body of a child found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7761924.stm
Summary:
A death boy with the age of 12 years is found in New Ash Green on Tuesday morning. At this moment isn’t further information about his death available, because the investigation isn’t yet finished. A woman who also was in the house, the connection with the boy is still unknown, has been arrested and has taken to the hospital for a treatment. A neighbour said about this youngster he was a nice polite boy and played often outside with his own. About the woman he said she has a detached behaviour. Officers are at the house to investigate the connection among the woman and the boy and the cause of the boy’s death.
Opinion:
This is about the fourth time in a short time a youngster is found death, abused or raped again and this time the boy is death. Further data about his death isn’t yet available, but it won’t surprise me if the woman has something to do with this case. I think this is again an awful situation and it seems to be a trend in England to abuse, murder or rape children, because almost every day a new case is in the news. I hope not all this attention to these cases will suggest the idea to people to do something worse with children.
Summary:
A death boy with the age of 12 years is found in New Ash Green on Tuesday morning. At this moment isn’t further information about his death available, because the investigation isn’t yet finished. A woman who also was in the house, the connection with the boy is still unknown, has been arrested and has taken to the hospital for a treatment. A neighbour said about this youngster he was a nice polite boy and played often outside with his own. About the woman he said she has a detached behaviour. Officers are at the house to investigate the connection among the woman and the boy and the cause of the boy’s death.
Opinion:
This is about the fourth time in a short time a youngster is found death, abused or raped again and this time the boy is death. Further data about his death isn’t yet available, but it won’t surprise me if the woman has something to do with this case. I think this is again an awful situation and it seems to be a trend in England to abuse, murder or rape children, because almost every day a new case is in the news. I hope not all this attention to these cases will suggest the idea to people to do something worse with children.
donderdag 27 november 2008
The Big Question: Should children be taught in single-sex classrooms?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-big-question-should-children-be-taught-in-singlesex-classrooms-1035057.html
Summary:
Schools minister Sarah McCarthy-fry thinks children should be taught in single-sex classrooms. She believes that girls would learn better in single-sex classrooms, because then they won’t feel intimidated by boys en feel more relaxed, because they would be removed from social pressures. Besides girls opt less often for science, because this would feel as a boy’s subject. The results of research whether girls do better in single-sex classrooms has showed that they do. Although there’s a reverse, because all leading performances are selective single-sex schools than comprehensives. So this could be a reason why single-sex schools are doing better than comprehensives.
Opinion:
I think single-sex classrooms has its pros and cons. On the one hand I could imagine girls would feel more confident when the boys are removed, because they won’t feel the need to act cool while they aren’t and they don’t have to be scared anymore that boys will laugh at them when they give a wrong answer. For those reasons I could picture girls will do better at single-sex classrooms. On the other I think it could restrain the boys and girls to have a relationship with the opposite sex and besides it there isn’t yet a conclusive research which prove girls do better at single-sex classrooms.
Summary:
Schools minister Sarah McCarthy-fry thinks children should be taught in single-sex classrooms. She believes that girls would learn better in single-sex classrooms, because then they won’t feel intimidated by boys en feel more relaxed, because they would be removed from social pressures. Besides girls opt less often for science, because this would feel as a boy’s subject. The results of research whether girls do better in single-sex classrooms has showed that they do. Although there’s a reverse, because all leading performances are selective single-sex schools than comprehensives. So this could be a reason why single-sex schools are doing better than comprehensives.
Opinion:
I think single-sex classrooms has its pros and cons. On the one hand I could imagine girls would feel more confident when the boys are removed, because they won’t feel the need to act cool while they aren’t and they don’t have to be scared anymore that boys will laugh at them when they give a wrong answer. For those reasons I could picture girls will do better at single-sex classrooms. On the other I think it could restrain the boys and girls to have a relationship with the opposite sex and besides it there isn’t yet a conclusive research which prove girls do better at single-sex classrooms.
Piracy at sea: Britons held on Sirius Star say crew are being treated well
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/26/piracy-somalia-sirius-star
Summary:
Two hostages of the oil tanker Sirius Star were allowed by their pirate captors to have a call and said they were fine and that they had not been mistreated by the pirates. The crew of 25 person are just continuing their normal day and their families didn’t have to worry about them. It’s not clear if the hijackers were standing with the hostage during the call, as a matter the possibility remains that the hostage was obliged to say they were not treating by the pirates.
A pirate gang seized the ship up at the Somali coast at 15 November and are now asking for a ransom of ₤15m.
Opinion:
I think it’s ridiculous that you won’t even be safe at the sea of imprisonment anymore. The pirates are blaming innocent people who just do their work to earn money. But those pirates think they are heroes, without money, and think piracy is not a criminal way to get money. It won’t surprise me if the hostage, who was allowed to make a call, was obliged to say all hostages had not been mistreated by the pirates. Perhaps it’s their strategy to receive their ransom, because the hostage even asked about the results of football during their call. I just can’t believe the pirates don’t treat them if they are immoral enough to hijack a ship.
Summary:
Two hostages of the oil tanker Sirius Star were allowed by their pirate captors to have a call and said they were fine and that they had not been mistreated by the pirates. The crew of 25 person are just continuing their normal day and their families didn’t have to worry about them. It’s not clear if the hijackers were standing with the hostage during the call, as a matter the possibility remains that the hostage was obliged to say they were not treating by the pirates.
A pirate gang seized the ship up at the Somali coast at 15 November and are now asking for a ransom of ₤15m.
Opinion:
I think it’s ridiculous that you won’t even be safe at the sea of imprisonment anymore. The pirates are blaming innocent people who just do their work to earn money. But those pirates think they are heroes, without money, and think piracy is not a criminal way to get money. It won’t surprise me if the hostage, who was allowed to make a call, was obliged to say all hostages had not been mistreated by the pirates. Perhaps it’s their strategy to receive their ransom, because the hostage even asked about the results of football during their call. I just can’t believe the pirates don’t treat them if they are immoral enough to hijack a ship.
donderdag 20 november 2008
Four deaths a week in system offering 'patently inadequate' care for children, says Ofsted report
Delays found in almost all serious case reviews and too many staff unable to recognize signs of abuse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/20/children-young-people-ofsted-abuse
Summary:
The Ofsted report has showed that the standards of care in the network of schools, care workers and children’s home established would achieve inadequate. Care workers, staff in schools and health centers aren’t able to recognize signs of children who really need help. This caused involved children and delays in judging what went wrong in the child protection system. Councils don’t learn from their mistakes.
A second point which the Ofsted report covered is that the education system is failing poorer children. The less money your parents have, the less services you can receive. This is a disadvantage for the child, because the poorer children are harmed by education what compounds development.
Opinion:
In every system a mistake could happen once, but when a mistake is made you should learn from it so it would never happen again. In the case of Child protection there have been made lots of mistakes, but they didn’t avoid those mistakes after the first one. I can’t understand why those faults could have been made more than once. The Government should research every case were something went wrong, because I think that’s the best way to prevent those mistakes for a second time. Besides I think Government should improve the education system. There shouldn’t be any inequity in this system, because all children have to receive the same care and support by education and shouldn’t be harmed when there parents aren’t that rich.
dinsdag 18 november 2008
Britney:’ My new life is worse than jail’
Britney Spears has admitted her new image is a SHAM and claims she would feel freer if she was in prison.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/article1941584.ece
Summary:
Britney Spears’ life has been changed, but she felt she still has to pay for the past time. She admitted in an interview her new life feels like a ‘Ground hog day’. The way she is now living feels like she will never get her freedom back. For that reason she said in an interview, she would feel freer if she was in prison. People are still judging her these days and Britney thinks it’s not fair she still have to fight against all wrong and bad opinions of people. Spears said she has learnt from the mistakes she has been made and admit she had a weird life, but things are changed and it’s now time to forget the past and give her some freedom and a new chance for her future.
Opinion:
Everyone knows that when you are a famous person, media will write wrong things about you and happenings will be overstated by them. If you make a really big mistake you have to pay longer than a unknown person would have to for the same mistake. The same is in the case of Britney Spears, she acted really weird last year and today she still has to pay for it. Actually, I think she has been paid long enough and it’s now time to refresh our opinions about her and give her a new chance to let her show what kind of new person she now is and give Britney her freedom back.
donderdag 13 november 2008
Pressure of being the favourite got to me
X-factor’s Laura White was send to home by Saturday
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/article1919674.ece
Summary:
Laura White, who was still running in the competition to win the X-factor, was send to home by Saturday. Now she is telling everybody that the pressure of being the favourite, got to her. She felt so stressed about her performance, because she didn’t want to disappoint her voters. She thought she did a good job and she got positive comments of the judges and sudden they were all taken away. At that moment she was so confused, sad and angry that she hid away after the vote. But when she was remedied of her frustrated feelings the judges had gone, so they didn’t offer her any comfort.
Opinion:
I think it’s really sad for her she was send to home. But in this interview she is telling most of the times about her confusing of being send away, while she got such positive comments of the judges. If I were her I wouldn’t make a big issue about this anymore, because this could may be cause her fans. She would better focus right now on her career and use her reputation to tell the media about her plans of being a singer than keep discussing about her dismissing. I think people are more interested about her future plans than her deporting. Laura has to show her positivity.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/article1919674.ece
Summary:
Laura White, who was still running in the competition to win the X-factor, was send to home by Saturday. Now she is telling everybody that the pressure of being the favourite, got to her. She felt so stressed about her performance, because she didn’t want to disappoint her voters. She thought she did a good job and she got positive comments of the judges and sudden they were all taken away. At that moment she was so confused, sad and angry that she hid away after the vote. But when she was remedied of her frustrated feelings the judges had gone, so they didn’t offer her any comfort.
Opinion:
I think it’s really sad for her she was send to home. But in this interview she is telling most of the times about her confusing of being send away, while she got such positive comments of the judges. If I were her I wouldn’t make a big issue about this anymore, because this could may be cause her fans. She would better focus right now on her career and use her reputation to tell the media about her plans of being a singer than keep discussing about her dismissing. I think people are more interested about her future plans than her deporting. Laura has to show her positivity.
woensdag 12 november 2008
Missing Shannon 'drugged' in flat
Missing Shannon ‘drugged’ in flat
Missing school girl Shannon Matthews
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7724274.stm
Summary:
Shannon Matthews is a school girl and disappeared in February. The court has now heard that Shannon’s mother, Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan had drugged and subdued Shannon in the flat where she was found. Prosecutor Julian Goose said it was all part of a ‘wicked and dishonest plan’ to kidnap the girl by her mother and the man whose flat she was found in. Mr. Donovan was to tell the police the plan was to release Shannon in Dewsbury market and for Donovan to ‘discover her’. The main point of their plan was to claim the reward money for the youngster’s return.
My opinion:
I think it’s ridiculous to use your own daughter to claim money. In the first place, a young girl will never forget what happened to her especially because it was her very own mother who came with this plan. In the second place all their family, friends and other well-known people who helped Karen with searching to her daughter. In the last place the cost of the search to the police, who was almost 3,2 million pounds. This disappearance became one of the highest-profile missing person inquires ever seen in the UK, while Karan all that time knew were her daughter was. I think this woman is really derailed.
Missing school girl Shannon Matthews
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7724274.stm
Summary:
Shannon Matthews is a school girl and disappeared in February. The court has now heard that Shannon’s mother, Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan had drugged and subdued Shannon in the flat where she was found. Prosecutor Julian Goose said it was all part of a ‘wicked and dishonest plan’ to kidnap the girl by her mother and the man whose flat she was found in. Mr. Donovan was to tell the police the plan was to release Shannon in Dewsbury market and for Donovan to ‘discover her’. The main point of their plan was to claim the reward money for the youngster’s return.
My opinion:
I think it’s ridiculous to use your own daughter to claim money. In the first place, a young girl will never forget what happened to her especially because it was her very own mother who came with this plan. In the second place all their family, friends and other well-known people who helped Karen with searching to her daughter. In the last place the cost of the search to the police, who was almost 3,2 million pounds. This disappearance became one of the highest-profile missing person inquires ever seen in the UK, while Karan all that time knew were her daughter was. I think this woman is really derailed.
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