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First News readership is 2,235,888. Source: Opinion Matters 2016. First News is the widest-read of all children’s publications audited in the UK. First News supports children’s charities – see page 14 FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 2. QUICK NEWS FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 1. HS2 IN CRISIS 15. SLEEPY STORIES The HS2 rail project could be Audiobooks featuring soothing in trouble, following news the THINGS TO sounds are being released to Government is launching a review. help people with sleep problems. High Speed 2 is the name of a high- Penguin Random House has speed railway, aimed at connecting teamed up with the Sleep Council the north of England with the south. KNOW AND TELL and the Children’s Sleep Charity It’s costing a whopping £56bn! The 20 to create the Sleepy Tales, a Government has raised concerns over QUICK NEWS TO READ YOURSELF AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS series of books for children and the cost and the affect it will have on adults. They’ll include soothing local communities. The review will sounds such as rainfall and look at whether HS2 should continue lapping water to help listeners or be scrapped altogether. 6. BAG CHARGE 10. CAM GOING OFFLINE relax and drift off to sleep. Morrisons is set to increase the price The world’s longest-running webcam 2. FEELING HOT of its plastic bags to 30p, to help cut is going offline after 25 years. The down on waste. The supermarket is webcam was installed by students on 16. TOY JOY The UK just had its hottest ever August trialling the new price in a few stores, the roof of a campus building at San bank holiday weekend. Temperatures but could roll it out across the country. Francisco State University all the way Hasbro, the largest toy maker in soared to 33.3ºC at Heathrow Airport back in 1994. the world, is set to get rid of plastic on Sunday and reached 33.2ºC on Bank packaging on all of its new products Holiday Monday. 7. TAG ON TV by 2022. The company says it wants to stop using plastic bags, elastic If you enjoy playing a game of tag 11. ANIMAL AWARDS bands and shrink wrap that usually with your friends, you may want Drusillas Park in East Sussex has 3. DRAGONFLY HOTSPOT cover its board games, such as to tune into the World Chase Tag launched its Animal Photographer Monopoly and Scrabble. Thursley National Nature Reserve Championships! The highlights from of the Year Awards. There are three in Surrey has been recognised as the 2019 competition will be shown categories: 12 years and under, 13-17 a ‘dragonfly hotspot’. This means it on Channel 4 in a few weeks. years, and 18 years and over. The 17. ANGRY AT AMAZON is an ideal area for dragonflies and winner of each category will receive Amazon has caused controversy, damselflies to flourish. The reserve a family-of-four ticket to Drusillas and after introducing a range of plastic has 26 species of the critters on-site. 8. TOTALLY THAMES a special Drusillas Photographer of packaging that can’t be recycled in the Totally Thames is back! The festival the Year certificate. Find out more at UK. Some small items are now being celebrates the famous River Thames www.drusillas.co.uk/drusillas-animal- sent in these plastic envelopes. Lots of in London, with a host of fun events photographer-of-the-year. customers are unhappy at the news, iStock throughout September. Highlights arguing that companies should be include a virtual reality journey into cutting down on single-use plastic. the river with ZSL, looking at the 12. SUGG ON STAGE wildlife that lives there, and the YouTube star Joe Sugg is swapping the Thames’ newest and biggest river boat computer screen for the stage. He’s 18. CHICKEN BOX CAMPAIGN race – the Regatta London. heading to the West End to star in Anti-knife crime messaging is being his first musical, Waitress! added to packaging in chicken shops. The boxes feature real stories from 13. RENEWABLE READING young people about the activities they’ve chosen instead carrying a Human waste from this year’s Reading knife. Campaigners have argued that Festival is being turned into renewable it’s inappropriate and the money energy. It’s thought that festival-goers’ should have been spent on youth poo and wee will produce enough services instead. One group turned power to run two homes for a day! 4. DISNEY NEWS up at the Home Office with their own boxes, displaying messages about

A host of new Disney announcements Thames 2019 Totally were made this week at the D23 Expo 14. SPORTING SHOW solutions to knife crime. 2019 in California. They included the The search is on to find four disabled announcement that Black Panther 2 is 9. POLL RESULTS young people to star in a new in production. For the full lowdown on 19. LIGHTNING BLAMED Channel 4 series with Paralympic the announcements, see next week’s Dentists in England want schools to The National Grid has blamed a 100m champion Jonnie Peacock. The First News. go sugar-free to help tackle tooth lightning strike for the huge power show will see the group being trained decay. We asked you: Do you think cut that affected parts of England and and mentored by Jonnie. If you’d like your school should go sugar-free? Wales in August. The Grid is being to take part, ask an adult to email 5. DELAYED FLIGHTS Lots of you voted, with 65% of you investigated over the outage. In the last year, 17 million plane saying YES, and 35% saying NO. [email protected]. passengers were affected by delays, according to research done “Although too 20. CHRISTMAS FILM by Which?, a consumer protection COMMENT much sugar Getty agency. It was also found that is bad for us, Michael Morpurgo’s children’s book Stansted is the UK’s worst airport sometimes the sweeteners we use to Mimi and The Mountain Dragon is for delays, with 10% of all flights replace them are even worse, as some being turned into an animation. The taking off an hour or more late, evidence suggests that they can cause story, about a young girl who finds a while Heathrow was best, at 4%. some cancers and obesity,” said baby dragon in her family’s woodshed, First News Live! user, missshoe. is set to air on the BBC at Christmas. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 3. BIG NEWS FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 “LUNGS OF THE WORLD” BURNING EDITOR’S COMMENT THE pictures of the Amazon fi res are upsetti ng to look at, and it’s not clear

G e tt y how we’re going to deal with them. Brazil’s economy is suff ering, so President Bolsonaro thinks that clearing forest will raise money from farming. But even though the rainforest is mostly in Brazil, the negati ve eff ects of the fi res will be felt around the world. It’s another example of our world leaders letti ng us down, and why your generati on needs to understand these issues bett er than they do. GOOD WEEK FOR… …conti nued from front page AFRICAN ELEPHANTS PARTS of the Amazon rainforest have now been on fi re for more than a month. IT should soon be illegal to send The fi res are ravaging the Amazon by Ben Pulsford African elephants caught in the wild to rainforest in Brazil and other countries, such foreign zoos. A majority of countries as Peru and Bolivia. A parti cularly dry season European leaders, Brazilian president Jair voted to outlaw the practi ce at the iStock for the Amazon has made things even worse Bolsonaro ordered his armed forces to CITES conference. Conservati onists for the region. Some of the fi res are natural tackle the fi res earlier this week. Bolsonaro are calling it a “historic win”. ones started by lightning, but many were has come under fi re for many reasons, started deliberately to clear land for catt le including for encouraging deforestati on. and soy bean farms. Satellite images show So far, around 75,000 wildfi res have been BAD WEEK FOR… the fi res are clustered along main roads, recorded in Brazil in 2019, which is the which gives easy access to the cleared land. largest number since 2010. BRITISH AIRWAYS The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical As First News went to press, several G7 THE Briti sh airline has admitt ed to rainforest and famous for its biodiversity. country leaders (see p7), including UK misplacing 150,000 passenger bags in It is home to over three million species of PM Boris Johnson and French president 2019, while trying to calm an angry plants and animals and covers huge parts Emmanuel Macron, announced that they tweeter. The airline tweeted: “To put your concerns in context: of northwestern Brazil, Colombia, Peru and would pledge £18 million to help fi ght the we’ve transported around 15 million bags the fi rst half of this year other South American countries. The area fi res, although this money has been turned and 1% of them has been delayed.” Erm, that’s 150,000 bags, BA! is commonly referred to as “the lungs of down by the Brazilian president. the world”, as more than 20% of the world’s This news story has ignited lots of global oxygen originates there. The rainforest is outcry and criti cism, which, as First News one of our largest natural defences against went to press, was growing and roaring with the same ferocity as the Amazon climate change, as it lowers CO2 levels. GIRAFFE PROTECTION Aft er facing severe pressure from several fi res themselves. THE world’s tallest mammals will be a litt le bit safer aft er new protecti ons were voted in by the members of the Conventi on on Internati onal Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). While poachers typically target giraff es for their meat, oft en their body parts are used to make products including jewellery, bracelets GIRLS RULE RESULTS DAY and purses. MORE girls received top GCSE grades than boys in 2019. Following the ruling by CITES, countries will now need to Thousands of teenagers went back to school last Thursday (22 record the export of giraff e parts, and those selling parts will have August) to collect their GCSE results. to get a permit from their government. By severely limiti ng the Overall, girls did bett er than boys this year and managed to amount of internati onal trade, it’s hoped that giraff es will be much narrow the gender gap signifi cantly in certain subjects. More less of a target. than 25% of girls and almost 19% of boys nabbed a top grade of While there’s no doubt that the new 7, or A, in this summer’s exams. Girls also achieved more grade rules are a good step towards bett er 9s – the highest grade possible at GCSE – in this summer’s exams. protecti on for giraff es, conservati onists G e tt y The big news was that girls achieved huge success in say that the protecti ons aren’t enough iStock traditi onally male-dominated subjects like maths, computi ng (more girls than ever before took to save the animals. computi ng exams this year) and physics. Conservati onist Julian Fennessy, Maths results, especially, signifi cantly narrowed the gender gap this year. Although more boys co-chair of the Internati onal Union for achieved maths grades with 20.6%, girls came in a close second place with 19.9%. Conservati on of Nature’s Giraff e and Okapi Despite the new “toughened-up” GCSE courses (in eff ect since 2017), the number of pupils (both Specialist Group, said that increased fi nancial boys and girls) getti ng the top GCSE grades has risen for the second year in a row. Just over one in and politi cal support was needed, along with people fi ve pupils got a grade 7 or above, which is a slight increase on last year. and resources on the ground, to stop their decline. SUBSCRIBE FOR HOME – TRY 3 ISSUES FOR £1* CALL 0330 333 0186 subscribe.fi rstnews.co.uk *followed by £19.99 every three months by Direct Debit FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 4. NEWS IN PICTURES FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 ZHANGJIAKOU, CHINA G e tt y G e tt y THIS aerial view of Taizicheng Ice and Snow Town under constructi on for the CALIFORNIA, USA 2022 Winter Olympics has just been released by offi cials.

THE cast of Frozen 2, Josh Gad (Olaf), Kristen Bell (Anna), Idina Menzel (Elsa) and Jonathan Groff (Kristoff ) take to the stage at the D23 Expo. They performed a brand-new song from the fi lm called Some Things Never Change. The new fi lm is due to hit cinemas on 22 November. ZSL

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DEMONSTRATORS throw tear gas canisters back towards riot police during YOUNG performers take part in the Children’s Parade during the Family Day of a protest in the Tsuen Wan district of Hong Kong, China. A Hong Kong police the Notti ng Hill Carnival in London. Hundreds of thousands of people take part offi cer fi red a weapon as a warning and a water cannon was used for the fi rst in Europe’s largest street party, which is a celebrati on of Caribbean traditi ons ti me on the 12th weekend of the protests. and London’s diversity. 3 ISSUES FOR £1 SUBSCRIBE.FIRSTNEWS.CO.UK FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 5. BIG NEWS FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 CHANGING G e tt y A MAMMOTH G e tt y WAVES

HUGE waves could become normal for large parts of the world, new research has revealed. A study by Australian scienti sts on how climate change might aff ect ISSUE wave size has found that half of the world would be at risk from “wave EVEN though they’ve been exti nct for thousands of years, woolly climate change” by 2080, should greenhouse gas emissions conti nue to mammoths might soon become classifi ed as a ‘threatened species’. rise at the current rate. As rising temperatures melt frozen ground in Siberia, the remains of perfectly- Wind patt erns are likely to change in ways that may make waves much preserved woolly mammoths are being found, and their tusks are in high demand. larger and longer. They may also move in diff erent directi ons compared More than 100 tonnes of the exti nct species’ ivory was exported to Asia last year, to previous decades, changing the world’s coastlines and damaging areas where it was carved into ornaments and jewellery for sale around the world. that are unprepared for large waves. Once carved, it’s almost impossible to tell whether ivory is from mammoths or On the same day that the report was released, the city of Sydney was elephants. Since there are no laws about selling mammoth ivory, lots of poachers bracing itself for six-metre tall waves. are selling carved elephant tusks and saying that they’re from mammoths – A senior forecaster at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said that this bypassing internati onal rules on selling elephant ivory. was “a rare event, parti cularly for August”. At the Conventi on on Internati onal Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Israel’s representati ve suggested that by making woolly mammoths a threatened species, an exporti ng country would have to prove the ivory came from a mammoth. It’s hoped the new regulati ons would also bett er protect elephants from poaching.

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60 MILLION YEARS… iStock FIRST DEATH LINKED TO VAPING HEALTH offi cials in the US have said that for the fi rst ti me ever, someone has died from a disease thought to be linked to vaping. FOR the fi rst ti me in 60 million years, the cycad plant has produced The pati ent was one of 193 people to have developed a serious lung disease in both a male and female cone naturally in the UK. the last few months. While the actual cause of the disease isn’t known, all of the The cycad (Cycas revoluta) is a type of primiti ve tree that once covered the UK, illnesses occurred in teens or adults who had used an e-cigarett e or other kind of which we know thanks to fossils of the plants that have been found in Jurassic rocks vaping device. along the Dorset coast. Offi cials announced that they have ordered laboratory tests of vaping liquids, and Since way back then, the UK’s climate hasn’t been suitable for the plant to make are trying to identi fy any harmful chemicals that could have caused the lung disease seeds – unti l this week, when one plant produced male and female cones. – and that some of those who had the lung disease were said to have been vaping The ancient occurrence happened at the Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of a syntheti c (man-made) drug that hadn’t been bought legally. Wight. According to the curator of the gardens, it “is a strong indicator of climate The director of America’s Food and Drug Administrati on (FDA) said it was change being shown.” important to understand that “we fi nd ourselves in the early stages of these “Last summer’s heatwave and this year’s record-breaking temperatures have investi gati ons, trying to piece together the facts”. caused the plant’s producti on of cones, with a run of milder winters also helping,” A doctor from the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventi on said it’s the botanist explained. important that people do not see vaping as “completely harmless”. It is illegal for “It’s not something that’s happened with a short-term mild spell. It’s a longer- anyone under 18 in the UK to buy e-cigarett es, and they are only supposed to be term warming that is making these things happen.” used by adults who are trying to give up smoking cigarett es. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites.

6. HOME NEWS FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 BELFAST ENGLAND EAST LOTHIAN FOO FIGHTERS FAN UNHEALTHY RIVERS CASTLE FOR SALE A fi ve-year-old Foo Fighters fan got Rivers are being used as “open sewers”, according to A historic Scotti sh castle has gone on to join his favourite band on stage iStock the World Wide Fund for Nature. The charity is warning sale for more than £8m! Seton Castle when they performed a gig in Belfast that targets for 75% of rivers to be healthy by 2027 dates back to the 18th century and is last week. Taylor Blackburn’s friends are “very unlikely” to be met in England. It wants the believed to have been Mary Queen of and family helped him to create Government to do more to tackle the problem of Scots’ favourite place to stay. It’s now a sign, which singer Dave Grohl waterways being used for sewage and farm polluti on. had a bit of a makeover and is used as spott ed in the audience. He then a 13-bedroom family home. invited the young boy to join him to rock out. The concert was the fi rst one Taylor has ever been to – and surely one that he’ll never forget! Savills

LONDON Twitt er/nikhoop2403 Twitt RAINBOW CROSSING The UK’s fi rst permanent rainbow road crossing has been unveiled outside Brockwell Park in Herne Hill. Lambeth council has installed the crossing BLACKPOOL to “show solidarity with the LGBT+ [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual] BLACKPOOL community”. The Mayor of Lambeth ILLUMINATIONS said the crossing is one of many ways Blackpool is set to be decorated in the borough is showing that no-one colour for this year’s Illuminati ons should face discriminati on. festi val, kicking off on 30 August. The annual light festi val sees the seaside town come alive with lasers, shows, neon displays and twinkling scenes. Coronati on Street actor Lucy Fallon is doing the light switch-on, which att racts hundreds of spectators. You can catch the illuminati ons unti l 3 November.

G e tt y IPSWICH ISLE OF WIGHT ED’S EXHIBITION STONE AGE DISCOVERY A new exhibiti on has opened in A Stone Age boat-building site has been Ipswich to celebrate the life and discovered underwater. The Mariti me Archaeology achievements of award-winning singer Trust says the 8,000-year-old structure is the most Ed Sheeran. The Ed Sheeran: Made intact, wooden Middle Stone Age structure ever in Suff olk exhibiti on features private found in the UK. The site would have once been family photographs, fun facts and dry land with lush vegetati on, but now sits 11 personal items belonging to the star, metres below sea level. The ti mbers from the site such as school certi fi cates. It’s free are being stored at the Nati onal Oceanography to visit and is open unti l May 2020. Centre in Southampton.

11 million trees are to 40 million old be planted in England and unused NEWS IN NUMBERS by water companies, electronic to help tackle climate devices are being 1 in four girls aged 7-10 don’t 500 pounds is how much three change. The Nati onal stored in UK play outside because they young people must each pay in Trust, The Wildlife homes, according don’t feel safe, while almost compensati on to Market Deeping Trusts and the RSPB to a survey by

half of girls don’t have access Model Railway Club. The teens iStock are also part of the the Royal Society to a playground. That’s what caused thousands of pounds’ initi ati ve, which hopes of Chemistry. Girlguiding’s Girls’ Atti tudes worth of damage to a model to assist the UK’s goal to Most of the tech Survey 2019 has revealed. railway exhibiti on back in May. become carbon-neutral. is mobile phones. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 7. BIG NEWS FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 WE’RE EATING THE GROUP OF THE PLANET SEVEN TO DEATH!

iStock iStock SPACE CRIME A NEW study is reminding us that overeati ng isn’t just bad

for our bodies, it’s bad for the iStock environment – really bad. PRIME Minister Boris Johnson In a study published in Fronti ers met with the world’s leaders in Nutriti on, researchers stressed last week, at the G7 meeti ng that food wasted through eati ng in Biarritz, France. excess calories was far worse for the Mr Johnson was joined by leaders environment than direct food waste from France, Germany, Canada, Italy, (just chucking food away). Japan and the US, for frank discussions They created a new index, called about the world. Metabolic Food Waste, and studied There, they discussed the Amazon a huge amount of populati on data rainforest fi res, and agreed to send from several countries to calculate the by Ben Pulsford millions in aid to Brazil – which Brazil ecological impact of obesity, globally. turned down (see page 3). Professor Mauro Serafi ni of the NASA is said to be investi gati ng the fi rst France’s President Macron tried University of Teramo explains what alleged crime in space. to repair relati ons between Iran, the they found: “Excess bodyweight Sounds like one for the wrong or illegal, despite Worden US and the UK. He secretly invited corresponds to roughly 140 billion Guardians of the Galaxy, doesn’t it? reporti ng the incident to the Iran’s foreign secretary for talks at tonnes of food waste globally.” NASA is reported to be looking Federal Trade Commission (which the G7, which Macron described Current annual direct food waste into an astronaut called Anne promotes US consumer’s rights). as “real progress”. is esti mated at 1.3 billion tonnes. McClain, who allegedly accessed The incident is believed to be There was also lots of trade talk. The report’s authors explain that the bank account of her ex-partner, the fi rst ever allegati on of a crime US President Trump met with PM producing the food that people Summer Worden – while on board committ ed in space. Johnson for the fi rst ti me, where they then overeat contributes to climate the Internati onal Space Stati on. In case you’re wondering – and discussed a trade deal that could change: “High energy foods have been According to The New York we know some of you are – the follow Brexit. Boris said that the shown to be the major contributor to Times, McClain – who has now answer is no, there is no ‘space NHS would not be part of any deal. greenhouse gas emissions. The waste returned to Earth – admitt ed to law’. Generally, astronauts must Trump also suggested that there of resources and the unnecessary accessing her partner’s account, follow the laws of their own might be an end in sight to the trade ecological cost due to an excessive but stresses that she did nothing country while working in space. war with China, but will sti ll be adding consumpti on of foods leading to an extra $550 billion in tariff s (extra obesity have been ignored so far.” charges) to Chinese imports. CLEARER WELFARE LABELS ANIMAL welfare charity Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) is campaigning for clearer labelling on meat and dairy products. They believe that buyers should know how the animals that a product has come from were reared. Currently there are no labelling laws in place in the UK to show whether the food product has come from a free-roaming animal or one that has been raised in a cage. In fact, many meat and dairy products on sale feature pictures of hills and countryside, which could be misleading to customers. CIWF says that more than 70% of animals raised in the UK come from factory farms. CIWF believes that clear labelling would allow shoppers to make an informed decision when choosing their food. Natasha Smith, UK Campaign Manager at CIWF, says: “Honest labelling empowers consumers, is fairer to iStock farmers, benefi cial for retailers and – most importantly – improves the lives of millions of animals each year.” FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 8. WORLD NEWS FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 USA RUSSIA NEPAL INDEFINITELY DETAINED FLOATING NUCLEAR SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAN When immigrant families illegally POWER STATION SETS SAIL From 1 January 2020, Nepal will cross the Mexico and US border, they Russia has launched the fi rst ever offi cially ban single-use plasti cs in the are arrested by authoriti es. Children fl oati ng nuclear power stati on. The ship Everest region. The world’s highest have then been separated from their will sail along Russia’s northern coast, mountain has become known as the parents and held at faciliti es for and its jobs will include providing power world’s ‘highest waste dump’ in recent months at a ti me while they wait for to gold mines and desalinati on plants years. It’s hoped that the ban will lead their parents to go to trial. Since 1997, (which produce fresh water from sea to a big reducti on in waste on the a rule called the Flores agreement water). Designed to supply power to mountain. Rules introduced in 2014 meant that offi cials could not keep remote areas, the boat is fi tt ed with also force any climbers to return with immigrant children locked up for more two nuclear reactors, but Greenpeace, 8kg of waste, along with any rubbish than 20 days. For the last few months, the environmental charity, says that the they produce themselves. the US government has regularly vessel is high-risk and may pollute the G e tt y broken this rule, and has now Arcti c with radioacti ve waste.

scrapped it altogether. This means G e tt y that children, some barely a year old, can be kept in the faciliti es for as long as the US government says. Human rights lawyers will now challenge the US government’s decision in court. G e tt y

USA ISRAEL MOUNTAIN LION BRIDGE Large numbers of California’s DON’T YOU KNOW ME? mountain lions have been cut off Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israel’s from each other for years by highways prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, built through the Santa Monica reportedly tried to enter the cockpit mountain range. To reunite the of a plane she was on, aft er the pilot mountain lion populati ons, plans failed to welcome her aboard over the have been made to build the world’s GERMANY loudspeaker. According to the report, largest wildlife crossing bridge. Set Mrs Netanyahu furiously demanded to open in 2023 and cost £72 million ACCIDENTAL SWASTIKA to go into the cockpit but the security ($87 million), the bridge will hopefully A new ride at an amusement park in Germany has been shut down aft er visitors guards prevented her from doing so. A seamlessly blend the mountains noti ced that it looked like a swasti ka symbol when it was in acti on. The director of spokesman for the PM said that there together and reconnect the lions, the Tatzmania theme park said he was alerted to the resemblance by social media. was an incident, but it was nothing without them even realising that He apologised to “anyone disturbed or off ended” and said that the Eagle Flight ride, like the reports suggested. This isn’t they’re travelling over speeding cars. which opened at the end of July, would be redesigned before it was reopened to the fi rst ti me that the prime minister’s the public. Displaying a swasti ka (or any Nazi symbol) is illegal in Germany, and is wife has made headlines this year. In punishable by up to three years in prison. June, she was ordered to pay 55,000 shekels (£12,100) aft er she admitt ed using taxpayers’ money on catering, iStock instead of using the staff chef. G e tt y YouTube/euronews FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites.

9. THE WEEK AHEAD by Aaron Henderson FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 PARLIAMENT KEY

RETURNS! All pics: Getty DIARY DATES iStock PARLIAMENTARY RECESS ENDS 3 SEPTEMBER INTERNATIONAL OVER the summer, you might have forgotten that Brexit was even happening. This week it all kicks off again, as MPs return to a very divided House of Commons, led by a brand-new prime minister and Cabinet. PRIMATE DAY When MPs last sat on the iconic green benches, Boris the EU without a deal. Over the summer, he’s been talking Johnson had just been made prime minister after winning to MPs from every party, attempting to negotiate a way for 1 SEPTEMBER Primates are the closest biological the Conservative leadership election by beating Jeremy Hunt. him to become a ‘caretaker prime minister’ who would step relative to human beings, and they’re He made it clear that, no matter what, the UK will be in to stop a no-deal Brexit. under threat. Our distant cousins face leaving the European Union (EU) on 31 October. As it stands, However, it’s clear that Mr Johnson isn’t going to make habitat destruction and poaching, and the UK is set to leave without agreeing a deal with the EU. things easy for Mr Corbyn. they need our help. While no-one quite knows what will happen if we leave First, Mr Corbyn would have to win a no-confidence vote without a deal, lots of people are very worried, especially to try to trigger a general election. If enough MPs vote to say after a leaked, official Government document predicted fuel, that they do have confidence in the Government, then Boris food and medicine shortages. Johnson will continue leading the country. If they don’t, then ISLAMIC NEW YEAR The leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has said that many things could happen! Here are a few of the outcomes, he will do everything he can to ensure the UK doesn’t leave and what they might mean for the UK. 30–31 AUGUST The Islamic New Year, or Muharram, is one of the most important months for Muslims and marks the start of a new Islamic calendar. It begins after the sighting of the new moon on the A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE? final day of the Islamic calendar year. JEREMY Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, has promised to call a vote of no confidence after Parliament returns. Here are a few of the things that could happen in the coming weeks. iStock IF the Government loses the vote, then THE Scottish National Party, Wales' Plaid Cymru MPs have to prove that they can form a and the Green Party have said they'd work with Government and come together behind a new Labour to prevent a no-deal. Lib Dem leader Jo leader. Typically, this would be the leader of Swinson said she won't work with Jeremy Corbyn, the opposition, but it could be but would agree to talks with a different leader. someone else. MIGRAINE JO Swinson says another MP should become prime minister and lead a new IF MPs can't come AWARENESS WEEK Government, like the Conservatives' together behind a new Ken Clarke or Labour's Harriet Harman. leader, Boris Johnson 1–7 SEPTEMBER has two weeks to prove Migraine Awareness Week is about working to help those affected by that MPs support him, with MEANWHILE, up to 40 Conservative MPs have said they another confidence vote. If he don't want a vote of no confidence or to see Jeremy Corbyn migraines. It is also to raise the loses, a general election is called and Parliament become leader, but that they also don't want to have a no- profile of migraines as a complex is shut for five weeks while MPs campaign. If Boris deal Brexit. It's thought they are trying to find a way to make neurological condition, and to help wins, then he stays on as prime minister. it illegal for Boris Johnson's Government to force a no-deal people understand that a migraine Brexit through Parliament. isn’t ‘just a headache’. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites.

10. SCIENCE SPECIAL by Eddie de Oliveira FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019

This report is from our friends at the Science Museum, part of the Science Museum Group. WATCHING THE WEATHER THE Royal Meteorological Society’s Weather Photographer of the Year competition has been launched – and you can vote for the winner. The annual contest showcases stunning images of the impact of weather on Earth. There are 24 shortlisted images in total. In this Science special, we showcase some of our favourites. SOLVING You can view all the pics and choose your favourite at tinyurl.com/weathercompetition. Voting closes on 25 September. MYSTERIES Science Museum Inside the Science Museum’s collection

THE Science Museum Group Collection is made up of hundreds of thousands of objects, and occasionally we come across objects that are harder to identify. But our very own ‘Scooby- Doo Gang’ are on the case! The Collections Information team have been busy researching and updating records, helping shed The Power of Lightning by Elena Salvai new light on our objects and the people and stories behind them. While identifying chemical hazards, the team came across some mysterious dyes that were revealed to have been made by pioneering chemist Frances Micklethwait. She studied the effects of mustard gas during the First World War. Thanks to the Collections Information team, we now know a bit more about Micklethwait’s work. Discover more on the Science Museum blog at blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk. Mountain Cloud by Iain Afshar Cinnamon Rolls Cloud by Bingyin Sun

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BIGPICTURE HERE’S something we learned this week: there’s a farm in West Virginia, USA, that’s home to more than 40 giant busts of former American presidents. There are 43, to be precise, and they’re all just over 20ft high. Collecti vely, they provide a prett y top-

notch photo opportunity for tourists and passers-by. G e tt y But why are they there? Well, aside from gift ing the First News picture team something truly special, they’re there because of a man named Howard Hankins. In 2010, Hankins was tasked with removing and demolishing all 43 of these giant busts from a closed theme park called Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia. Instead of destroying them, Hankins (who used to work at Presidents Park) lugged all 43 heads back to his private family farm. They’re prett y heavy, so that took about a week. Years later, they are sti ll there and, as you can see by this photo taken last week, it’s possible to organise a visit. Hankins is reportedly planning to open his own Presidenti al Historical Park featuring the giant busts in another locati on in the future. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites.

12. SPECIAL REPORT by Ian Eddy FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019

STEP INTO THE Natalia Piórecka PLASTIC-EATING, GREEN HOME

A chair and other furniture that OF THE FUTURE were made by living mycelium MOST homes, schools and offices are incredibly wasteful. We waste water, heat and electricity, and throw away loads of things (hello, plastic!) that could potentially be turned into useful products. But researchers in Newcastle are working on homes of the future that will breathe and grow, supply us with nutrients, recycle the waste in our bins and our toilets, and even heal themselves if cracks appear.

Armstrong says that breakdown products and turning them into fuel or some FUN GUYS (AND GALS) sort of high-value chemical.” The Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment spongy materials Armstrong adds that modern homes force us to be (HBBE) was set up by Newcastle University and extending out from our homes could consumers, as we don’t produce anything ourselves. But Northumbria University to explore ways of using fungi, soak up water maybe with the help of microbes, we can make things from bacteria and other living things to make homes that during fl oods our waste and share them across the neighbourhood. are fi t for the 21st century and beyond. We told you As well as fuel, microbes could give us oxygen and about it in June, but we’ve taken a closer look at the proteins, or vitamins and nutrients for people biotechnology side, which is about using and adapti ng and animals, or for our gardens. living things to make useful stuff . The nice people at the “What we’ve found is that diff erent things are important HBBE told us more about their cool project… to diff erent people,” she says. “So in Africa, it’s more LIVING BRICKS AND SWEATING WALLS important to clean the water than it is to make electricity. And if households can produce diff erent outputs, you start Professor Rachel Armstrong from the HBBE is a to have a trade, and they’re kind of like micro-economies.” professor of experimental architecture. She has been Climate change means that saving water is becoming “looking at how a building can be alive” and “changing more and more important, as droughts will be longer and the impacts of buildings on environments”. more severe. Helpfully, lots of these microbes can re-use “So for instance, can composti ng, which traditi onally happens outside the house, be done inside?” she asks. what’s known as ‘grey water’, which is the water that “Could it produce heat to heat water? Could your usually goes to waste down our plugholes. kitchen scraps generate enough electricity for you to Future homes will also be able to use human waste in a good way. Glastonbury watch a screen? The questi on at the heart of this is: already has urinals (right) that turn wee into ferti liser, as well as electricity to power can we get nature to do the work of fossil fuels?” lights. Imagine charging your phone thanks to the wee or poo you just did! She says that our future homes could contain microbes The HBBE is also using mycelium (the in “living bricks with ‘stomachs’ in them to produce electricity.” underground fungus that mushrooms Martyn Dade-Robertson, co-director of the HBBE, has writt en about how walls sprout from) to turn more waste – such could even have special coati ngs of bacteria spores so that they can “sweat” if it gets as wood shavings and used coff ee too humid indoors, such as when you have a hot shower or boil the kett le. He also grounds – into a strong, natural building says that bacteria can be embedded into concrete, so that if cracks appear in the material. The chair they made walls, “the material literally becomes alive and triggers a chemical process causing this way is pictured top right. new crystals to grow and ‘heal’ the concrete.”

A CHANGE FOR GOOD The Pee Power loos built by the G e tt y TASTY WASTE Although we can fi nd microbes to do University of the West of England “One of the things we’re some of these things, the experts at the interested in is the degradati on of HBBE will be altering the DNA of microbes to make them more effi cient, or even to do plasti cs,” says Gary Black, the co- things that they couldn’t do before. So we could ‘reprogram’ microbes to build natural director of the HBBE. “Most natural materials that are stronger and more sustainable than man-made materials. enzymes can’t break plasti cs down, Armstrong thinks that using biotechnology in all of these ways “could almost take because nature hasn’t seen those homes off the grid altogether,” so that they use very litt le energy and water. The before. But there is work that’s climate crisis means that we need to make houses that “are no longer a litt le bit bad shown how some enzymes can for the environment,” she says. “They’ve got to be good for the environment.” break down plasti cs. We want “Current building isn’t sustainable,” adds Black. “The carbon footprint that a brick A lab set-up of microbial fuel cells to add value by taking those has is enormous compared to naturally produced or biologically produced materials.” FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 13. ANIMAL NEWS FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 MANTA MATES iStock

MANTA rays and sharks form close bonds and friendships, according to new research by a team of marine biologists. The scienti sts from the Marine Megafauna Foundati on, but we know they are socially Macquarie University, the University of Papua and the University interacti ve, and these interacti ons of York carried out research on reef mantas in Indonesia’s Raja seem important to the structure of Ampat Marine Park. They took lots of photos to study the gentle their populati ons,” explained lead iStock giants and their relati onships in a fi rst-of-its-kind study. author Rob Perryman. They found that despite being seen as solitary creatures, Their full fi ndings were published this week in the journal Manta rays oft en gather in manta rays actually choose their social partners, and also form Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. groups to feed and to be relati onships with other rays. The team studied 500 groups of It’s hoped that the research will help biologists understand cleaned by other fi sh manta rays over fi ve years. more about these giant rays and their mati ng habits, as well “We sti ll understand very litt le of how mantas live their lives, as the infl uence of humans on their habitat. OFF INTO THE WILD!

BUSH DOG BUDDIES Zoo Chester A GROUP of more than 150 ti ny Chessington World of Adventures World Chessington caterpillars born at Chester Zoo are desti ned to be wild butt erfl ies, as part of a conservati on plan to save a disappearing species. The caterpillars of the large heath butt erfl y will be raised at the zoo before hibernati ng over winter. Next summer, when they have turned into butt erfl ies, they will be released in an area where the species A BUSH dog called Bandit has been introduced to a new mate called Lady. has been exti nct for 100 years. Large heath Lady has joined Bandit at his home in the Trail want to learn as much about them as they can. butt erfl ies used to be common across the Briti sh of The Kings at Chessington World of Adventures The team at Chessington World of Adventures Isles, but have slowly been pushed further and in Surrey. Bush dogs originate in Central and South are excited by the arrival of Lady. They hope further north. America and can only be seen at a handful of zoos that Bandit and Lady are a good match and Chester Zoo is working with the Lancashire in the UK. The small but mighty carnivores are will eventually have a litt er of pups. Wildlife Trust to try and save this species from classed as near threatened in the wild, so experts Watch this space! local exti ncti on. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 14. ENTERTAINMENT FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 GET INTO FILM THIS AUTUMN! THE Into Film Festi val, the UK’s biggest fi lm festi val for young people, is back this November. Want to know about it and how you can get involved? Well, you’ve come to the right place!

What is the Into Film Festi val? It’s the only fi lm festi val in the UK that is dedicated to young people. Schools What fi lms will and fi lm clubs from across the country can take part in free fi lm screenings, be shown? fi lm-maker events, questi on-and-answer sessions, workshops and lots more – So many! This year the themes of all focused on fi lm and the fi lm industry. The festi val has been running for six the festi val include anti -bullying, years and it gets bigger every year. The seventh festi val this year is set to be the environment and community, the biggest yet and runs from 6 to 22 November. and all of the fi lms being shown The Secret Life of will have a link to these Pets 2 will be shown! 40 premieres of themes. Screenings of FUN FACT the documentary Dumbo will run alongside an Anti -Bullying Alliance talk and 2040 will open this special foley (see below) workshops, while screenings of The festi val will year’s festi val The Secret Life of Pets 2 and March of the Penguins will also include audio- be teamed with interacti ve animal educati on service Wee described, subti tled Critt ers. There really is something for everyone! and auti sm-friendly screenings! Will I have seen all the fi lms? Absolutely not! As well as previously released fi lms, there’ll be exclusive showings of new releases, including Dreamworks’ new animati on Abominable!

What’s on the screen? This year the fi lm kicks off with a premiere of the award-winning, climate change documentary 2040. The fi lm takes a look at what the world will be Last year’s festi val like by the year 2040 if we follow the was a LOT of fun! climate change measures we have in place at the moment. There will be 40 pupil premieres of the documentary happening around the country at the same ti me, with celebrity guests and Abominable is a brand-new release spokespeople from Greenpeace popping up at some of the FUN FACT screenings too. How cool is that?! How can I get involved? Screenings will If you’re aged between 5 and 19 then there’s an event be held at cinema suitable for you! Bookings will go live on 5 September DICTIONARY chains as well as at www.intofi lm.org/iff 19bookings. Why not get your Foley: the reproducti on cool venues like teacher to book ti ckets for your class this November? of everyday sound eff ects Sti rling Castle and that are added to fi lm, Shepperton Studios! video and other media during post-producti on. CHARITIES SUPPORTED BY FIRST NEWS Tickets for the Into Film Festi val go on sale on 5 September. All events and screenings are free. For more informati on and to sign up for events, visit www.intofi lm.org/iff 19bookings. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 15. ENTERTAINMENT FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019

THIS WEEK Channel 4 The Great Briti sh 1 Bake Off is here again! The 13 new contestants made OF THE WEEK their tent debut this week, and they are the PICS youngest line-up ever. It was also announced this week that Junior Bake Off will be back. The kids’ OLLY Murs has swapped the recording booth cooking competi ti on has been off air since 2016, for a voice-over booth! but three new series have been agreed. The singer has lent his voice to a dog for an episode of Disney Channel’s 101 Dalmati an Street. Olly told us: “I’m voicing a very chilled but The name of the next James Bond fi lm has adventurous Dobermann called Spike. He’s a surfer 2 been announced. No Time To Die will be dude with a sensiti ve streak who develops a soft released next April and will be Daniel Craig’s spot for Dolly when the characters head to Cornwall fi nal fi lm as Bond. for a summer holiday. I really enjoyed taking on the exciti ng new challenge of voice acti ng, parti cularly Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was the highest for such a cool new Disney Channel character. Spike 3 paid actor in the world in 2018! You can see will get his starring role later this summer – I can’t him next in Jumanji: The Next Level, which is out wait to see the reacti on to my canine creati on when Olly recording the voice for his character later this year. it airs in September.” You can hear Olly in acti on at 7:30am on 7 September There’s been a lot of talk about Spider-Man in 101 Dalmati an Street on 4 this week, aft er a split between Disney and Disney Channel. Sony. The split means that Spider-Man may no longer feature in the Marvel Cinemati c Universe (Marvel is owned by Disney). This could mean that the recent Spider-Man: Far From Home (pictured) may be the last ti me we see Tom Holland as the web-slinging superhero.

Watch this space! Sony Olly’s character is a Dobermann called Spike!

Tell us about this new animated series. It’s a celebrati on of a dysfuncti onal [not normal] family with a very northern sense of humour, where you go: JOHNNY “Look, we are not perfect but we are what we are. Somehow we work; we shouldn’t work, but we do”

FIVE What is Dave like? VEGAS The family don’t cut him any slack, but he’s one of MINUTES the family. They all get on with it and it’s a constant squabble. Dave is constantly fi nding himself in these WITH… situati ons with his family; they all have ideas but they are all terrible ideas. There is just a lovely chaos to it. who was my best pal. We do a lot of work now with Dave’s dog is called Fuzzypeg and was a dog charity that provides free pet care for folk who rescued from a bin. Do you have pets? can’t aff ord it. I used to be that kind of kid who would I had loads of pets growing up. I had budgies, I had rescue a bird and keep it in a shoe box and bring it fi sh and I was proper into pets and I fi nally got a dog back to health.

Dave has to learn the recorder at school – did you learn a musical instrument at school? I played the trumpet and I got as far as Chitt y Chitt y Bang Bang, but we couldn’t aff ord lessons anyway. I tried to learn the cello years ago, but I’ve got a very odd kind of arthriti s, so I couldn’t hold the bow

G e tt y without my hand swelling up. My hand would swell up like when you blow into a pair of marigold gloves. I do play my nose though – I bang out a mean COMEDIAN Johnny Vegas tells us about the Hawaiian tune on my nose! brand-new animati on coming to CITV this week and his character, Dave Spud. Catch The Rubbish World of Dave Spud on CITV from 2 September FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites.

16. BEHIND THE SCENES by Serena Lacey FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 STEP INTO HOGWARTS HARRY Potter is possibly one of the most famous names in the world. Whether you're eight or 80, the chances are you will either have read about or watched his adventures and been hooked. Eighteen years after the first film was made, the world of Harry Potter is still enchanting fans of all ages. First News visited Warner Bros Studio Tour London: The Making of Harry Potter – the only place in the world you can visit the actual sets that were used to make the epic film series.

Thousands of sets, props and costumes were created during the ten years the fi lms were in producti on. From the huge Great Hall of Hogwarts, to books, tapestries, trains, motorbikes, creatures and even the Forbidden Forest, almost everything was built from scratch. The studio tour is the only place you can see this treasure trove in person. TOP TOUR The tour takes you on a journey through the fi lm series, starti ng with the cupboard under the stairs where Harry spent most of his childhood. A short introducti on later and you step into Hogwarts’ Great Hall, one of the most recognisable sets from the fi lm series. The Great Hall at Hogwarts INTO THE WOODS The Great Hall featured in seven The famous cupboard under the stairs If special eff ects and magical creatures interest you, then out of the eight fi lms and was one of the fi rst (and biggest) the Forbidden Forest is the place sets to be built. Aft er it was destroyed during the batt le of to visit. Learn how the art team Hogwarts (Harry Pott er and the Deathly Hallows Part 2), it created a lifelike forest for fi lming, was painstakingly rebuilt to go on display at the studios. At and meet Centaurs, Hippogriff s and the head of the hall you can see the costumes worn by some some very, very large spiders (top of the teachers and the House Points Counter, which is fi lled ti p: look up). All kinds of fi lm-making with hundreds of thousands of glass beads! secrets are revealed, including how The Great Hall isn’t the only full set on display. The poti ons fi lm-makers used a dog in an LED classroom is dark and full of glass jars of ingredients, vest as the basis for a Patronus! Dumbledore’s offi ce is full of trinkets and important-looking equipment and the boys’ Gryffi ndor dorm looks like Harry and A set of Hogwarts-designed classrooms will open at DID YOU Ron have just left for Quidditch practi ce! the studio tour this autumn and can be booked for school trips. What a cool place to have a lesson! KNOW? HOP ON BOARD Hands up if you wish GOBLINS AND GOLD! that your journey to school New to the tour for 2019 is the huge Gringott s included a ride on the Wizarding Bank set. Walk past the towering Hogwarts Express?! Us too! marble pillars and under giant crystal chandeliers The actual train used for to see the goblin bankers sitti ng behind their fi lming is ready and waiti ng desks. Prostheti c goblin masks that were used for for you to step on at fi lming are on display, including Griphook’s. He was played by Platf orm 9¾. Each carriage Warwick Davis, who spent four hours in make-up every ti me he was transformed! has been fi tt ed out inside Then, if you dare, venture down into the vaults where the wizarding treasure is by the art department The Hogwarts Express kept! Prop-makers created more than 210,000 coins for the fi nal two Harry Pott er to represent each fi lm in fi lms, plus hoards of treasure belonging to Bellatrix Lestrange and Lord Voldemort. chronological order, and there’s even a spooky surprise In fact, more than 38,000 pieces of treasure (made of rubber) were created for in one of the compartments! Can you guess what it is? Bellatrix’s vault. See if you can spot Helga Huffl epuff ’s Cup and the Sword of Gryffi ndor among them. If you know your Harry Pott er facts, you’ll know that the vaults of Gringott s are guarded by a fi erce Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon. Watch where you step when visiti ng, The Harry Potter Studio Tour is the only place in the as you wouldn’t want to disturb him, would you…? FUN UK where you can try Butterbeer. There's even Butterbeer-flavoured ice cream! No matt er how much you think you know about Harry Pott er, a visit to the studio FACT! tour will leave you brimming with new facts about the fi lms and the fi lm-making process. Find out more at www.wbstudiotour.co.uk. All images TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Pott er Publishing Rights © JKR. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 17. GAME ZONE FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 NEW GAMES GALORE!

OVER in Germany this week, game developers, fans and journalists have been exploring Gamescom, the world’s biggest gaming conventi on. MINECRAFT RTX UPDATE While it might not be quite as well-known as E3, THIS announcement is more like there’s a lot more on show at Gamescom. Trust us, a glimpse at the future, rather than it’s absolutely massive! anything you’ll be playing soon! For the fi rst ti me ever, Gamescom was opened with a big show called Opening Night Live, where loads of On PCs, a game’s graphics are powered awesome-looking new games were shown off . largely by the graphics card, and those with

Nvidia/Mojang While there was plenty of brilliant stuff there, the a seriously powerful graphics card will soon be event took place very shortly aft er Nintendo hosted able to play an absolutely gorgeous version of Minecraft ! an online Indie World showcase where, again, there Called the RTX update, Minecraft Bedrock editi on will soon support were plenty of awesome games shown. We’ve ‘ray-tracing’, which basically simulates light within a videogame in a way rounded up all the most exciti ng ones, along with that’s just like real life. some of the coolest updates and additi ons coming to Sadly it’s just for PC players with an Nvidia RTX graphics card, but we’re hoping your favourite games, so you can start getti ng excited it will one day be available on every console! (and saving up for them) now. SKATER XL XBOX ONE/PC/NINTENDO SWITCH SKATEBOARDING games are some of the coolest out there, and Skater XL looks like another great additi on to the genre. Described as the “next evoluti on in skateboarding videogames”, Skater XL is a realisti c skateboarding simulator where

Easy Day Studios Pty Ltd Day Easy no trick is ever the same twice! KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM 2 PC/XBOX ONE/PS4 KERBAL Space Program (KSP) is one of the silliest but most serious space games out there – and the sequel is taking things even further. Using detailed real-world physics, in KSP2 you SEGA/Nintendo can start a space programme, construct powerful spacecraft , design resource-gathering colonies, and much more to uncover the secrets of the galaxy! Division Private TOKYO 2020 MEETS TOKYO 1964 RISK OF RAIN 2 PC/NINTENDO SWITCH MARIO & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 has an awesome new mode that’s a tribute to the fi rst Olympic Games held in Tokyo. RISK of Rain 2 (PEGI 12) is an endless, The 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games were the fi rst Olympics to be held in Asia, and random shooter with a bunch of diff erent Japan did really well in them! stages, enemies, bosses and items. As a tribute to those games, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 With new content being added all the ti me, will include a ‘classic 2D events’ mode that pits the original versions of some classic Risk of Rain 2 is already infi nitely playable – and characters against each other in old-school events. is getti ng even bigger! A total of ten events will be available in 2D: the 100m dash, 10m platf orm (diving), Be warned though: this game gets tough, 400m hurdles, vault (gymnasti cs), judo, kayaking, long jump, marathon, trap quick. You can play solo or team up with friends shooti ng and volleyball.

Hopoo Games to take on bigger and tougher bosses. They’ll be playable alongside the 21 3D events in the game. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites.

18. FOCUS ON YOU FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 GETTING ORGANISED SOMETIMES the start of a new school year can be a very busy ti me. When there’s lots to do, it can be diffi cult to know where to start. Taking ti me to list what you need to do and plan your ti me (including breaks) can help to make everything feel more manageable. 1. Be kind to yourself very therapeuti c [it helps£ 1you0 to 0relax] and makes you When you are feeling overwhelmed it is really easy to feel like you haveAM regainedAZON control.VOUCHERS att empt to do everything in a short space of ti me and 3. Use a calendar or diary therefore not take care of yourself. Make sure that This will allow youU toP writeFOR inG plansRAB theS minute you

you are eati ng and sleeping properly, and att empt to make them, so that nothing is forgott en. That way, you iStock give yourself about an hour a day to relax. Someti mes won’t double-bookEV yourselfERY W andEE youK! are able to check talking to someone can help you to de-stress, but so that you’re not too busy to take care of yourself. can ti me alone; perhaps try taking a bath or listening Overall, it is really important to remember that there to some music. is no shame in being disorganised every now and 2. Make lists again. Everybody is! It is important that when this An excellent way to check with yourself what you need happens, you take a break and slowly take steps to BONUS to do is to make a list. Write out everything you need organise yourself again, rather than panicking and to do and then number it in terms of importance or getti ng yourself more stressed. It always takes a litt le deadlines. This will make it easier to know what you while to get back into the swing of school again too. PRIZES TO BE need to do and when. Once you have done it, ti ck it off ! Ticking something off a list can be Thanks to NSPCC ambassador, Saskia. WON! I’M ESTHER RANTZEN, PRESIDENT OF CHILDLINE, WHICH HELPS THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN EVERY WEEK. DOWIF NYOUL EVERO NEEDAD TO TALK,TH YOUE CAN A VISITPP WWW.CHILDLINE.ORG.UK NOW! OR CALL THEM ON 0800 11 11. FNQ – THE WEEKLY FN QUIZ

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20. SPECIAL REPORT by UNICEF FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 WATER WALK 2019 FIND out how you can join in with UNICEF’s Water Walk campaign and help make life bett er for thousands of children around the world. iStock

WHAT IS WATER WALK? iStock UNICEF UK’s Water Walk takes place across the whole of September, and asks you to CELEBS ARE TAKING PART TOO! pick just one week in the month and walk for five miles every day – it’s as easy as that! James McVey from The Vamps is joining in. “I’m You will be raising money for the millions of children around the world who have to taking part in this year’s Water Walk and asking walk miles every day just to reach clean and safe water. the nation to join me in walking five miles every Of course, if you’re feeling strong you can always fill your rucksack with water bottles, day for UNICEF UK,” he says. “It’s shocking to hear to experience just a tiny amount of the struggle that millions of children around the world how many children around the world still have experience every day to reach clean water. to walk miles, sometimes in burning heat, just to access clean water. HOW CAN YOU TAKE PART? “When a child has access to clean water close to home they can live a normal childhood by going It couldn’t be easier to sign up for UNICEF UK’s Water Walk. All you need to to school and playing with friends, but millions of do is pick your week in September (this can be any week that suits you), tell children are spending hours walking every all your family and friends, sign up to the fundraising page and get walking! day just to collect water, something we take for granted here in the UK. It couldn’t be easier to take part in the DID YOU KNOW? Water Walk for UNICEF UK.” Over 260 million people worldwide have to walk for over 30 minutes to get clean, safe water Over two billion people do not have access to clean and safe drinking water UNICEF’s goal is that by 2030 no-one will have to walk more than a 30-minute

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quote from Howard Carter. This is a book that I could not Anything and everything! CS Lewis, Alan

put down, as it brought ancient Egypt alive. Five out of Garner, Ursula Le Guin and the Fighti ng fi ve stars, and recommended for readers aged eight and “ “ Fantasy choose-your-own-adventure up (especially if you’re studying the Egypti ans at school!). books. I even remember recording my own audio version of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole on an old tape deck. BECOME A FIRST NEWS BOOK REVIEWER! HAVE you read a book recently that you desperately want to tell people about? Write us a review! We’ll need around 100 words on a book you’ve been reading TO READ THE FULL INTERVIEW, VISIT WORDSFORLIFE.ORG.UK/AUTHOR-INTERVIEWS. – good or bad – and a picture of yourself (with parents’ permission!). Email your FOR BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS, ACTIVITIES AND GAMES, GO TO WORDSFORLIFE.ORG.UK. review to bookreviews@fi rstnews.co.uk

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22. PUZZLES FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 WORK WIN! THE BIG BOOK OF THE UK WORD HAVE a go at our sudoku and fi ll in the numbers one to nine. Send in your answers and fi ve lucky winners will win a copy of The Big Book of the UK. Filled with facts about wildlife, food, sports, geography, language and LADDER some very silly place names, this book will help you uncover nati onal secrets and SEE if you can get from the top unearth local legends from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. of the ladder to the bott om by www.penguin.co.uk/ladybird changing one lett er at a ti me to make 9 5 1 4 8 a new word. 6 1 3 2 SHOP 2 1 7 8 9 6 5

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24. YOUR NEWS FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 WE WANT TO HEAR WHAT FAMILY FUN AT THE ZOO JUNIOR YOU/YOUR by Zac JOURNALIST ME and my family went to Chester Zoo for a day out and it was SCHOOL IS UP TO amazing. It is probably the biggest zoo I have ever been to. Are you doing something There was so much to do. around the enclosure. sponsored for charity? Starti ng I don’t think we got to see it all, There are a few big parks to play your own school newspaper? but we did get lost a few ti mes. in and a few places to eat, but Putti ng on a show? Are you off The zoo does have lots we took a picnic and we were sat on an amazing holiday or did you of animals to see, including next to the giraff es while we were have a great day out? Why not elephants, monkeys, penguins, eati ng it! share your experiences with rhinos, ti gers and lots of other cool The ducks did take my sister’s First News readers? animals – and I found out lots of sandwich, which was very funny! Email your report facts about them too. It was a great day out and a good (including pictures) to My favourite part of the zoo was start to the yournews@fi rstnews.co.uk the bat enclosure. It’s quite dark summer Don’t forget to include your in there but you see them fl ying holidays. name and age (and your school’s around your head and one of them name and address for school fl ew right at my mum’s face. I also news reports). By writi ng in, liked the butt erfl ies – one landed you give consent to First News on my litt le brother’s buggy and printi ng details and photographs Having fun at the zoo! stayed on there while we walked of those involved in the report. CRICKET WORLD CUP ARIANA CONCERT by Kieran Schmitt by Amelia Ahmed BACK in May, I was lucky enough to be an Anthem Kid I WAS lucky to be in the front for Ariana Grande’s JUNIOR at the opening match of the ICC Cricket World Cup, JUNIOR Sweetener tour, enjoying the animated stage JOURNALIST with my team from Whiteley Village Cricket Club. JOURNALIST backdrops, which were very impressive. First we rehearsed, and then the team at the Oval showed There were night skies, starlight and lonely planets. For one us what to do. Then before I knew it, I was out on the pitch holding track, Ariana stood beneath a huge image of the moon as if she was the only a South African player’s hand. person in the O2. I knew I was experiencing one of the best moments of my life. She is a young woman with a powerful voice, and sang dreamy songs in a space- Just before I went on to the pitch, I had the chance to have a conversati on with age pop way. I loved all the crowd-pleasers, especially Into You and Break Free. Prince Harry and gave him a high fi ve! She also sang breathin, Watching the cricket was amazing. My favourite part of the match was when Ben Amelia which highlights her Stokes caught the ball one-handed and it made the crowd go wild. struggles with anxiety, The icing on the cake was that England won. I had a great day, and it was the something that many of experience of a lifeti me. her audience can relate to. Just before she fi nished The team her set, she performed a noisy duet with Nicki Minaj called The Light Is Coming. By then the audience was ready to sing along with thank u, next. Leaving the auditorium with the catchy tunes ringing in our ears, it was On the fi eld a great concert. SUBSCRIBE FOR SCHOOL – FIND OUT MORE AT SCHOOLS.FIRSTNEWS.CO.UK CALL: (020) 3195 7256 EMAIL: [email protected] FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites.

25. FAMILY FUN FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 CREATE WIN! A KURIO CONNECT & Try this YOUR activity from our Inventions SMARTWATCH BUNDLE box Box OWN THE awesome Kurio Connect Android tablet is designed From the team behind FirstNews ROBOT! especially for kids. It comes packed with loads of apps and games, you can surf the web, take photos and videos, watch YouTube, Use the below space to draw your very own robot plus access more than a million apps! and colour it in. The Kurio Smartwatch 2.0 is an awesome gadget that you can personalise with interchangeable coloured watch straps to match your style. The straps even have colour-changing thermal technology! Pre- loaded with 20 apps, a multi -functi on screen, two-player games, camera/ Share your video, photo fi lters, messaging, media player, acti vity tracker and phrase robot with us! translator, it can also operate as a hands-free kit for a smartphone when #wonderboxrobot connected via Bluetooth. Three winners will each win a Kurio Connect and a Kurio Smartwatch. To be in with a chance of winning, just answer the following questi on:

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26. FIRST CAREERS FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019

WHAT I DO I am a scienti st and professor of cancer and PROFESSOR developmental biology at the University of Cambridge. I run a large laboratory that carries out research into a type of children’s cancer called ANNA PHILPOTT neuroblastoma – a cancer of the nerve cells that usually starts in the stomach. With the support of Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People, CANCER we are working to develop a new treatment for it, by studying what might have gone wrong with these RESEARCHER nerve cells when a baby is growing as an embryo. HOW I GOT MY JOB I’d always wanted to be a scienti st, so I studied biology at university, then did a postgraduate research degree called a PhD. I then went to Harvard Medical School in the USA for six years for research training, before applying to Cambridge University to teach. My research up unti l that point was on cells and how the nervous system develops, but a fellow scienti st said my research could be applied to children’s cancers. This struck a chord with me, as my niece had been diagnosed. WHAT I LOVE ABOUT MY JOB It is intellectually challenging. I work with really smart people from all across the world and I’m doing something that is both incredibly interesti ng but also really important.

WHAT’S DIFFICULT ABOUT IT CANCER is the world’s second- biggest killer, resulti ng in nearly I have lots of diff erent things to do and juggling them all can be a challenge. Also, if you do science you have to be prepared ten million deaths globally every to fail oft en, but also be able to pick yourself up and try again. year. But researchers like Anna I always say to my children: “If you haven’t failed, you haven’t are working hard to fi ght this tried something deadly disease. hard enough.” WHAT SKILLS I NEED You need to be smart, resilient, hard-working and have great communicati on skills. Great science involves lots of people working together to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. WIN! A DANCE MASTERCLASS AT WHERE YOU SHOULD START IF YOU WANT TO DO THE JOB TOO You should start by working hard at school. You don’t need to be a genius, PINEAPPLE DANCE STUDIOS but you do need to have a passion for science and the determinati on to keep at it. Maths is also very important. I’d recommend doing science at university and seeing where it takes you. A science degree is a fantasti c foundati on CALLING all dance fans! for any career, as it also teaches Ahead of their UK tour this autumn, cast logical thinking and project members of The Next Step are holding a management. very special dance Masterclass in London at the world-famous Pineapple Dance

HOW MY JOB COULD CHANGE iStock Studios in Covent Garden on Sunday 13 October, where the popular The Next IN THE FUTURE Step-themed workshops are held. In the future I think researchers We are off ering one lucky First News reader the chance for them and a will take much more advantage friend to att end this exclusive Masterclass. The winner and friend will also of new technology like arti fi cial receive a pair of cool Pineapple dance legwarmers and a signed copy of The intelligence and robots to help Ulti mate Guide to The Next Step, published by Sweet Cherry. with their work. However, we will There are also cool prizes for two lucky runners-up always need the creati vity and who will also receive a pair of legwarmers and a signed intuiti on of ‘real’ human scienti sts copy of the book. To be in with a chance of winning, just to make the breakthroughs in answer this questi on: research that we really need, so more children and young people Where is Pineapple Dance Studios? survive cancer. a) Covent Garden b) Covent Lawn c) Covent Park Anna is supporti ng Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People, supported by TK Maxx, during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month this September. The prize is for one winner and one friend (both of whom must be aged between 9-14 years old and accompanied by a parent/guardian aged 18 or over) to receive a dance workshop at Pineapple Dance Studios with the cast of To fi nd out how to support, visit cruk.org/childrenandyoungpeople (from 1 Sept) The Next Step. The workshop will last approximately one hour (with winners/guests from other outlets att ending). VISIT FIRSTCAREERS.CO.UK – A SHOWCASE OF HUNDREDS ENTER NOW! MARK YOUR ENTRY DANCE OF JOBS AND CAREER PATHS TO INSPIRE YOU fi rstnews.co.uk/competi ti ons or page 23. The closing date is 12 September 2019. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 27. SPORT FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019 SPORT IN

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Ellie Threlkeld of Lancashire Thunder bats during the Super League match against Yorkshire Diamonds, who won by four wickets G e tt y

Newcastle United’s Miguel Almirón controls the ball Hubert Hurkacz of Poland returns a shot from Benoît Paire

during the Premier League match against Tott enham. The G e tt y of France during the men’s fi nal of the Winston-Salem Open. Magpies won 1-0 to secure their fi rst points of the season Hurkacz, 22, won 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 to scoop his fi rst ever ATP Tour ti tle

Dina Asher-Smith celebrates aft er breaking her own Briti sh Championship record in the women’s 100m with a run of 10.96 seconds at the Briti sh

G e tt y Athleti cs Championships in Birmingham G e tt y G e tt y

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28. SPORT by Eddie de Oliveira FirstNews Issue 689 30 August – 5 September 2019

Ben Stokes celebrates SPORT IN England’s win NUMBERS million pounds is how much golfer Rory McIlroy received 12.2 aft er winning the Tour Championship. STOKED! The Northern Irishman had previously said the huge sum of prize money wasn’t “the best way” to make golfers connect with fans. McIlroy fi nished on 18 under par, four shots ahead of Xander Schauff ele of the USA. G e tt y G e tt y BEN Stokes scored a sensati onal 135 not out to lead an extraordinary comeback for England against Australia in the third Ashes Test at Headingley. England completed a record run chase to prevent the included 11 fours and eight sixes – sealed England’s Aussies from retaining the Ashes. In their fi rst innings, miracle win. But aft er the match, Stokes warned against England crumbled to a humiliati ng 67 all out. Criti cism of getti ng carried away. He said: “This will all be forgott en if -year-old sprinter the team came thick and fast, and when Australia reached we lose the next Test match.” Adam Gemili broke 246 all out in their second innings, England were left with The result means it’s 1-1 in the best-of-fi ve series, the men’s 200m a huge target of 359. They ended up scoring 362, beati ng with the fourth Test scheduled to begin this Wednesday 25 Briti sh Championship the previous best English Test run chase record, which was (4 September) at Old Traff ord in Manchester. record with a ti me set in 1928. England won by just one wicket for only the Australia expect their best batsman, Steve Smith, to be of 20.08 seconds in the fi nal at fourth ti me in their Test history. back in ti me for that match. He was forced to sit out the Birmingham. Gemili said he expects to Six weeks aft er his eff orts helped secure England the third Test aft er suff ering concussion when a ball hit him be even faster at next month’s World Cricket World Cup, Stokes was at it again. His 135 – which hard in the second Test. Championships in Doha, Qatar. Jodie Williams won the women’s 200m fi nal in a ti me of 23.06 seconds.

goals were scored by Antoine Griezmann in his home debut 2 for Barcelona. The Spanish champions, who were without injured duo Lionel ENGLAND FALL SHORT Messi and Luis Suárez, came from a goal behind to defeat Real Beti s 5-2. Real Madrid drew 1-1 with Real Valladolid. In Italy, Juventus started their defence of the Serie A ti tle with a 1-0 win at Parma.

Spain celebrate G e tt y winning bronze ENGLAND lost out to Spain in the bronze-medal match at the EuroHockey Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. Aft er being smashed 8-0 by the fi rst ti me since 2003 that England Netherlands in the semi-fi nal, the haven’t fi nished in the top three. English were hoping to secure third Aft er the match, captain Hollie place at the competi ti on. Pearne-Webb told the BBC that the Hannah Marti n scored for England team were “disappointed with the as the match fi nished 1-1, but Spain whole tournament”, and that they won the shootout 3-2. It is the had “a lot to work on”.