Eight-page Christmas special CHRISTMAS STARTS HERE! THERE’S just over a month to go until the big day and we’re starting to feel really festive here Firstat News HQ. Our favourite celebrities love Christmas too, so check out what these famous faces like best about the festive season. HUGH BONNEVILLE My favourite thing about Christmas is all about decorating the tree with Christmas carols playing and the smell of mince The food pies and brandy butter Christmas is my favourite wafting from another is the best time thing about Christmas. HARRY room. BEN of the year! I love the Christmas lunch is always HILL weather, I love cosying up good fun to make and I seem SHEPHARD with the family, I love getting 17 – 23 Novemberto 2017be the one who does it. It’s together with friends, I love all over so quickly though! Christmas carols. I can’t Issue 596 I also love the cold food JOSH GADD pick just one thing I FirstNews afterwards on Boxing love about it! Day. (THE VOICE OF OLAF DERMOT FROM FROZEN) O’LEARY The 8PAGE CHRISTMAS books Christmas movies. 17. My favourite Christmas Every year movie is National I love that on Christmas Day we Lampoon’s Christmas ROCHELLE it’s the time of year go for a walk somewhere Vacation because it HUMES where everyone seems along a beach and maybe a reminds me of my own to be in good spirits. There’s paddle or a swim if we’re feeling crazy family. always something going on. I CHRISTMAS brave. Then sitting down and do go on holiday the day after cooking and just having a great Boxing Day though, only day. We either go to Midnight because I like to get away Mass or a mass during the from it all and properly HOLIDAY day as well. relax. I’m half My family READS! festive book Swedish and in are quite traditional DOCTOR ll you be reading this Christmas break? Something festive, with Sweden you’re allowed at Christmas. We’ll open PULLOUT! wi WHAT r? What about a real Christmassy classic? to open one present on MAYA MATT presents, take the dog for yea s from First News readers for a lots of snow in? Orut maybe this you’lldation catch up on onend toof be the something many AMAZING here that’d Christmas Eve. So my mum JAMA TERRY a walk in the park in mmen there’s bou stmassy already? Why not enjoy a murder mystery books that camesome o reco Feeling Chri Mistletoe and Murder would always let me and my our wellies. Then we’ll come ed brother open a present on back home and watch a read! We’ve gather oliday by the fire..? Christmas Eve, which is a Christmas film and eat ROBIN STEVENS tly a special - no gmatterreat Christmas how picky h you may be, portantly ab ig family tradition. some chocolate. e for a Reviewed by Hannah Luff, 8 mosmostt importan mak ies? I liked this bookstery! because My itfavourite is exciting,te, and character adventurous is Hazel and a marvellous my rave, affectiona she is b Looking for a new series to start?! 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SAFETY Detective) a girl and herthe pet way dog ac calledross America. McClusky. I Reviewed by Laiba led all NADIYA’SThe story is about travel a got stolen. I thought the FESTIVE TREATS Fred it when WIN! PAGE 23 I liked didn’t like the bit when Chipolat book was really really good. Want a pony forCLARA Christmas? VULLIAMY INCLUDING My Little ReviewedPony: Equestria by Amelie, Girls 8 – Legend of Everfree Initially, I found that it was quite puzzling to work out the since it was a bit boring but as yI readthe best characters’ names and personality.o get excitinAt first,g andI thoughtbabl before it I knewwould e forever to read started t een was pro nd the tak er ninet e I found that it mor ished it! Chapt it, I had fin Words for Life bit, as this part of the storyline was very exciting a is out now. Nick told us which storybook THEATRE TICKETS NICK is a biologist and writer who has worked at the Natural History characters had started to develop. Museum, the Zoological Societyke to of be London,: and for the BBC. His latest PAGE 7 The Amazing dAnimal most liAtlas book, character she woul I’d love to be Phileas Fogg Around the World from nterviews. nd vities a in Eighty Days by Jules , To read Nick’s full interview, visit Verne. Not only did he get wordsforlife.org.uk/author-ife.org.uki . to travel around the Earth For book recommendations, acti he did it in the nineteenth games, go to wordsforl t! century - all by steamboat, THE UK’S PAGE 29 sledge, and elephan Issue 596 £1.99 17 – 23 November 2017 BEST SELLING TITLE FOR KIDS* AND MORE COMPETITIONS PUZZLES INTERVIEWS ENTERTAINMENT NEWS SPORTS live.fi rstnews.co.uk Prince William takes part in an anti -bullying event at a school PRINCE WILLIAM LAUNCHES ACTION PLAN ON CYBERBULLYING PRINCE William, the Duke of Cambridge, launched a nati onwide campaign to tackle cyberbulling yesterday (16 November). Over the last 18 months, a Taskforce of the biggest media and technology companies, children’s chariti es, parents and young people have been working to create the fi rst ever internet code of conduct, called ‘Stop, Speak, Support’. The Taskforce, brought together by the Royal Foundati on, hopes that their Acti on Plan will reach every 11–16 year old in the country, so that they will be FLYING empowered to stop cyberbullying by speaking out and seeking support. As part of the Acti on Plan, some of the biggest social media companies, such as Facebook and Snapchat, will trial new functi ons for reporti ng MANFUTURE PUPILS Wire Ireland/PA Tim cyberbulling. The Duke hopes that COULD these functi ons will then become standard throughout the world. New GET TO SCHOOL LIKE THIS? safety guidelines to keep young people safe have also been agreed. by editor in chief Nicky Cox Peter Wanless, NSPCC Chief He said: “We stand at the very beginning of what human Executi ve, said: “We know it can be ROCKET man Richard Browning fl ew into the pages of Guinness World Records last week. propulsion systems will do. It’s at the same point as the very diffi cult for young people being Called the ‘real life Iron Man’, Briti sh inventor Richard mobile phone was in the early ‘80s or the internet of the bullied online or in person to tell broke the record for the fastest speed in a body-controlled early ‘90s. Daedalus will eventually be capable of fl ying at someone what’s happening... ‘Stop, jet engine power suit. Wearing the £40,000 Daedalus suit, several hundred miles per hour.” Speak, Support’ provides simple steps which he designed himself, Richard fl ew at 32.02mph. The Gravity team and other experts say they will for children and teenagers who witness The inventor, 38, took to the air at Lagoona Park in conti nue to improve these suits and, who knows, in 20 cyberbullying to follow.” Reading, Berkshire. He takes off verti cally and controls years we could all be zooming about like Iron Man. Turn to page 25 to fi nd out about directi on with his arms. Before that they sti ll have to make the suits safer, easier ‘Stop, Speak, Support’. Richard, founder of technology company Gravity, says and aff ordable. this is just the beginning and he plans to smash the record again in the future. First News supports children’s charities – see page 21 * First News ABC (Jan-June 2017) 86,413 – the highest circulation of all children’s publications audited in the UK. 2. Quick news FirstNews Issue 596 17 – 23 November 2017 1 Black friday 6 bus crash 9 fewer pets 15 Equality On 24 November, the biggest shopping Las Vegas’s new self-driving shutt le Fewer people in the UK now own a survey day of the year is here! Black Friday bus crashed less than two hours aft er pet – just 56% of households have one, originated in America and is always making its debut on public roads! down from 63% in 2012. It’s believed Have you taken part in our equality survey? Equality is a held the day aft er Thanksgiving.