Hello,
It has been lovely to hear from some of you this week. I’ve enjoyed looking at the photos you have sent. This week, Ben has made a lovely animation that he sent me. Well done Ben it was amazing you should be very proud. Jack now wants a gorilla to add to his animal collection so he’s saving up his pocket money
Did anyone manage to solve the Maths problems? I’ve popped the answers below. If you’d like to access more of these problems here is the link: https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/classroom-resources/problems/
I’ve included the answers for the pixel quiz below too. Unfortunately, I’ve ran out of pixel quizzes so there isn’t one this week. My bubble have been creating their own pixel characters why not have a go at creating your own too! We also drew some sound creatures last week – they were really good. Did anyone else draw a sound creature?
Well done to Ellie-Mae who was our top scorer on Spelling Shed last week! Well done to Ellie-Mae, Edward, Joseph who earned a bronze certificate on Mathletics last week. Keep up the good work everyone. There seems to have been some issues with Mathletics last week hopefully they have been resolved and all will go smoothly this week.
I hope I get to see some of you next Thursday (16th July) when you come and collect your reports
See you soon,
English Maths Science Can you continue this story? NCETM are delivering daily lessons on Watch the following clips about vertebrates https://cdn.website- YouTube: and invertebrates: editor.net/7126fcc91c16486aa0d4a69d750 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4m 46744/files/uploaded/creature%2520in%2 LQqF8sn28L9xqMyqJ7xqbP7RpqBhVv4 6hbk 520the%2520glass.pdf x3
Complete the activities on the link above. The BBC have daily English lessons White Rose Maths have released some Who will go on a spider safari?
which are available online via this link: free Kindle workbooks. You can find https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons them here: https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/p I have included this week’s copy of First rimary-resources/parent-workbooks/ News for you to read. Art I See Maths are delivering daily Can you create your own colour? Have a lessons here: look at some of the examples below. I love ICT http://www.iseemaths.com/lessons34/ the watermelon red. Can you find the treasure in this Minecraft coding game? Can you draw a sound creature? https://studio.code.org/s/aquatic/stage/1/pu https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/art- zzle/1 Home Learning Weekly Tasks technology/draw-sound-creature
Year 3/4 History Week 11
This week you will be finding out about Spellings
Greeks at war using this link: Food Technology Spellings will continue to be on Spelling
Can you make something with your Shed and will be changed weekly. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z87 family? tn39/articles/zckr4wx This week’s spellings: https://www.littlecooksco.co.uk/recipes/ Y3 – adding the suffix –ally to -ic
Using this information, can you draw words Jack loved baking this week! He enjoyed and label a Greek soldier. I’ve included Y4 – challenge words making (and eating) the pizza wheels. an example below. We also made rock buns and cheese Can you score over 5 million points for scones. 250 honey pots?
1. Genie 2. Goofy 3. Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora) 4. Winnie the Pooh 5. Buzz Lightyear 6. Nemo 7. Cheshire Cat 8. Mike Wazowski 9. Pluto 10. The Beast 11. Jasmine 12. Pinocchio NEWS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT INTERVIEWS PUZZLES COMPETITIONSAND MORE FROZEN 2 BE NICE THE WEEK’S SPACE SECRETS! TO BEES BEST PICS HOLIDAYS! P16 P14-15 P4 P9
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THE world has only six months to change the course of the climate crisis, one of the world’s top energy experts has warned. by editor in chief Nicky Cox Second World War, and much bett er than we’ve seen determine the course of the next 30 years and recently, with emissions rising by about 1% a year. beyond. If emissions rebound, it is very diffi cult Fati h Birol, from the Internati onal Energy Agency, Emissions must fall to net zero by 2050 to meet to see how they will be brought down in future.” says the coronavirus lockdown has led to a cut in the goals of the Paris agreement, signed up to by That’s why the IEA is urging governments to have carbon dioxide emissions across the world. But world leaders. green recovery packages for life aft er lockdown, with we need to keep going. The experience of the pandemic so far has shown wind and solar power being a top focus. Emissions plunged by a global average of 17% in that changes in people’s behaviour – such as not And Lord Deben, chair of the Committ ee on April – the sharpest drop in carbon output since fl ying or driving, and working from home – is only Climate Change (CCC), says we need new schemes records began. In the UK, the decline was about part of the answer. The world sti ll has a long way to to insulate homes, to raise carbon taxes, to switch 31%. But, as countries slowly get back to normal go. Even with lockdown, most of the emissions have to electric vehicles and improve broadband, to help acti vity, the decline has already bounced back to remained, so even bigger shift s are needed to the the green recovery and cut emissions for good. He within about 5% of last year’s levels. way the world produces and uses energy. said: “We have to do this as rapidly as possible – this That is sti ll the biggest annual drop since the Fati h Birol says: “The next three years will window of opportunity is closing clearly.”
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. 2. QUICK NEWS FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 July 2020 ONLINE NATION READING FOR WILDLIFE Brits are spending a quarter of their A new campaign lives online, shows new research by called Reading Ofcom, the UK’s communications for Wildlife watchdog. Its annual Online Nation is bringing report has found that the average together Briton spends a quarter of their authors, artists, QUICK NEWS conservationists waking day online in some way. And lockdown may be partly to blame for TO READ YOURSELF AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS and industry the latest, higher than normal, figures. leaders to raise Ofcom says the average British adult is awareness of the illegal wildlife spending four hours and two minutes trade by reading An Elephant online every day, a 14% increase from COOKALONG 4 FAMILIES ULTRA-RARE POKÉMON For Breakfast by Zella. For 27 last year’s average of three-and-a-half days throughout July, a different hours every day. At least you’re taking Food manufacturer An ultra-rare Pokémon card is author, artist or activist will a break to read a newspaper! Danone has expected to ‘catch’ a whopping read a chapter of the book on launched a new £88,000 at auction next week. The
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Getty families cooking first-place winners of a Pokémon card Editor in Chief, Nicky Cox, is one together to raise tournament in Tokyo, Japan, way back of the 27 readers taking part in money for charity. in August 1999 – which means the Frankie the campaign! You can find out The series of live Bridge card itself is very likely older than you! more at www.zellahunter.com. cooking tutorials It’s so rare that Heritage Auctions has for the whole family have been airing referred to the Pokémon Super Secret on the Danone YouTube channel. Battle No 1 Trainer card as the “holy #STOPHATE4PROFIT LOCAL LOCKDOWN Called Cookalong 4 Families, the grail” for Pokémon collectors. videos have been hosted by a bunch Companies including Coca-Cola have Leicester has become the first location of different celebs, including The pulled their ads from Facebook, saying of a local lockdown in the UK, after a Saturdays’ Frankie Bridge. For every PUNGENT POST the social media giant doesn’t do recent spike in cases of COVID-19. The viewer of the livestream, the company A suspicious smell coming from enough to stop hate speech. Facebook number of infections in the city has is donating £1 to the Family Action inside a German post office makes its money from adverts, and is increased by 866 in just two weeks. charity. The last one airs on 8 July. resulted in six workers being losing billions as a result of the action. The Government has said all non- rushed to hospital and a mass essential shops must close, as well as evacuation. After a thorough schools (except for vulnerable children COVID-19 US CASE RISE investigation, local police and BEYONCÉ SUPPORTS BLM and the children of key workers). The The US state of Texas has seen a huge firefighters discovered a package Beyoncé has voiced her support for easing of lockdown in England on rise in cases of COVID-19. The state of four Thai durian fruits lurking Black Lives Matters (BLM) protesters, 4 July, when pubs, restaurants and was among the first to start lifting in the Schweinfurt post office. and called on supporters to “vote hairdressers can open again, will not lockdown but has now seen one of the Despite being viewed as a delicacy like our life depends on it”. Beyoncé apply to Leicester. The new restrictions biggest surges in new US infections, in many areas of the world, durian made the call to action during the BET will apply for at least two weeks. with thousands of confirmed cases fruit is known to be very smelly – awards, which celebrate black artists a day. Governor Greg Abbott has so smelly, in fact, that it is actually and sportspeople, ROYAL COOKS urged people to stay home for their banned in many hotels and across after receiving public transport in Asia. own safety. Restaurants, shopping the humanitarian Getty centres, bowling alleys and some other award, given businesses can stay open, but with by former First limits on how many people can visit. HIDDEN FIGURE Lady of the US, HONOURED Michelle Obama. Mary W Jackson, an African-American VOICES 2020 engineer who saw little credit for her work as a NASA engineer, has been The 12th Doctor, Peter Capaldi, honoured by the space agency, which has been announced as the host has renamed its headquarters after of this year’s virtual Voices 2020 her. Sadly, she isn’t around to see it Awards show. The creative writing Getty today, as she died in 2005. competition for children in care and young care leavers will celebrate its fifth year with a special show, Getty streamed on the Coram Voice TIGER TREATS YouTube channel, at 5pm on 5 July. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex Three tiger cubs at Whipsnade Zoo showed off their cooking skills when celebrated their second birthday with they helped make meals for a youth an unusual (and kind of yucky) treat organisation in LA. Prince Harry and – a giant ice lolly made of blood. The
Meghan Markle joined Homeboy rare Amur tiger cubs, Dmitri, Makari Getty Industries to cook meals as part of and Czar, are almost fully grown now, their Feed Hope programme, which so polished off the lolly quickly, which provides food for those in need also helped keep them cool in the hot during the coronavirus pandemic. weather last week. 3. BIG NEWS FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 ul LEFT WITHOUT FOOD IN 500 WORDS ON LOCKDOWN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT 500 WORDS is the world’s largest story-writi ng competi ti on for kids. More than a million stories have been submitt ed since 2011, in response to ever thing from technolog to climate change ow, the team ehind it are ringing children’s voices to the themes and issues G e tt y emerging from the Black Lives Matt er movement. But, be quick! You’ve only got unti l tonight (11.59pm on Friday 3 ul to get our entries in Children aged etween and 13 can enter in whatever wa ou wish, in no more than words, in the form of
G e tt y a stor The judges are keen for kids to draw on their own experiences and feelings to create a story that can be as imaginati ve and visionary as ou want Stor telling is a must ERN ENT data has shown From 13 to 16 July, four semi-fi nalists in each age group will be that the number of families chosen hen the udges will decide who will ecome the two reducing the amount of food G e tt y fi nalists, and the eventual winner of the fi nal on Friday 17 July. they ate, or who relied on food The fi nalists will be invited to att end an exciti ng day of events with special guests, starti ng out at Chris Evans’ Virgin Radio Breakfast banks, rose signifi cantly during Show with man special surprises to follow as soon as lockdown the fi rst months of lockdown. guidelines allow it he data, which comes from the he words of man stories will e read out on air special guests Food Standards Agenc FSA and throughout the competi ti on. onl covered ngland, ales and So, what are you waiti ng for?! Get writi ng and send your story via orthern Ireland, found that etween the online entr form at 500words.me 3 million and 7 7 million adults were forced to reduce porti on sizes. Between 7 million and 3 7 million adults went to a charit for food or used a food ank, ecause the didn’t have enough mone to feed themselves during lockdown A.I. ACTOR he FSA found that the ma orit of those with diffi culti es getti ng enough AN Arti fi cially Intelligent (AI) robot actor has been given food were households with children, a starring role in a $70 million movie (£56.4m). people with health issues and people Meet Erica, the AI star of a new sci-fi fi lm, called , which is a out an aged 1 - lder people aged -7 arti fi cially intelligent woman, also called Erica, who escapes from the lab were found to e most a le to feed that created her themselves, with ust skipping suall , rica’s part might e pla ed a C I character, or an actor G e tt y POLL OF meals in a in make-up. Instead, the fi lm-makers decided to work with Japanese A overnment spokesperson said scienti sts Hiroshi Ishiguro and Kohei Ogawa to actually build a robot actor. THE WEEK o help those who are struggling to One of the visual eff ects arti sts behind the fi lm explained just what that Would you watch a fi lm aff ord food and other essenti als, we meant She was created from scratch to pla the role e had to control that stars an A actor are supporti ng frontline chariti es and the speed of her movements, talking through her feelings and coaching o to fi rst.news/polls communit groups with a grant of up character development and od language to vote to 1 million
NA A is planning on returning to the moon in 2 2 and, while NASA’s experts fi gure out the rocket science bit, they want your help in designing a new high-tech space pott y that can fi t on the new lunar landers.
NA A ER The space organisati on offi cially launched a challenge with crowdsourcers Hero X to fi nd the next generati on of moon toilets and, while it may sound silly, they’re being very serious about it, off ering huge prizes to the best design. Winners of the Junior Design Challenge will be given a bunch of awesome space prizes – including a certi fi cate from NASA. Those entering the more grown-up Technical Design Challenge could take home $35,000 (£28,000)! There are lots of guidelines around the lunar loo’s design, so to fi nd out more and enter your own space toilet’s sketch, head to www.herox.com/LunarLooJr. 4. NEWS IN PICTURES FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 ul
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CONGRATULATIONS to First News’ Managing Editor Keilly Swift and her husband Nick on the arrival of their second daughter, Elodie Robyn Eve. Elodie arrived on Sunday 21 June, weighing 8lb 3oz. Amelie is OUTDOOR fi tness classes take place inside domes to fi t in with social distancing very proud to be a big sister! measures, to help control the spread of COVID-19. 3 ISSUES FOR £1 SUBSCRIBE.FIRSTNEWS.CO.UK 5. BIG NEWS FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 July 2020
G e tt y EDITOR’S COMMENT WHAT ARE T E coronavirus pandemic has been diffi cult for people all over the world. But, among all the bad news about it, there is a glimmer of good news – it might help the climate crisis (front page). ow we’ve shown what can e done, it’s down to all of us THE RULES? to tr to keep up some of the ehaviours of lockdown that have helped the planet – like fewer car journeys. And, it’s also up to world leaders to adopt green recovery plans for their countries et’s hope the don’t waste the chance GOOD WEEK FOR…
C AE R EN G e tt y H children’s author is ack AFTER crowds crammed on to beaches during last week’s heatwave, and at home aft er being admitt ed to football fans gathered on the streets of Liverpool to celebrate the club’s hospital with coronavirus at the Premier League win, Government and local offi cials are urging people to end of arch remember the social distancing rules and be sensible. The local council declared a ‘major incident’ at Bournemouth beach due to overcrowding – it would have been easy to think that the lockdown was over. But Health Secretary Matt BAD WEEK FOR… Hancock threatened to close down beaches if social distancing rules weren’t obeyed, while DEN AR ’ England’s chief medical offi cer, Professor Chris Whitt y, warned that if we don’t all follow DENMARK’S prime minister, Mett e the social distancing guidelines then cases of COVID-19 will rise again. Frederiksen, has had to postpone G e tt y From 4 July in England, if you can’t stay 2m apart, you should stay ‘one metre plus’ her wedding for a third ti me. This apart, while reducing the risk, e.g. by wearing a face mask. In Northern Ireland, it will ti me it’s to go to an EU summit be 1m with restricti ons, in Scotland and Wales it remains 2m. Two households can about a COVID-19 recovery fund. meet indoors (except in Wales) or outdoors, but they must follow social distancing. The She says that she hopes to get number of people who can meet varies depending where in the UK you live. Playgrounds, married soon restaurants, museums, cinemas and hairdressers can open if they follow the guidelines. Get First News delivered to your home! TRY 3 ISSUES FOR £1 G e tt y THE FUTURE Visit subscribe.fi rstnews.co.uk OF CINEMA AND THEATRE MILLIONS CAN’T NO pick ’n’ mix but there will be thermal imaging cameras. What exactly will it be like WASH THEIR HANDS going to the cinema or theatre as lockdown starts to ease? WE all know how important it is to wash our hands, ow theatres and cinemas have een Things are not so straightf orward with theatres given the go ahead to reopen, what will a trip though. Although they are allowed to reopen and but did you know that one billion people in the world to the movies or to see a musical involve start rehearsals for shows, as long as they sti ck to sti ll don’t have basic hand- Here’s what to expect the social distancing rules, they are not allowed to washing faciliti es? stage live producti ons yet. ne of the ke wa s to help stop No pick ’n’ mix However, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is the spread of COVID-19 is washing No singalong screenings planning on doing a trial of safety measures in July our hands properl , ut charit With the new ‘one metre plus’ rule to show the overnment that theatres can reopen UNICEF has revealed that people there’ll be a gap of two seats between without social distancing and help get live shows in the most vulnera le countries diff erent groups, but you will be able back on stage sooner. He’s using similar methods sti ll aren’t able to do it. In the
to sit with your family or friends to the ones they’re using in a touring producti on of 60 highest-risk countries, two iStock Film start ti mes will be spread out to he Phantom of the pera in South Korea. There, out of three people don’t have make sure not everyone arrives at the they’ve been using thermal imaging cameras to hand-washing faciliti es at home cinema at the same ti me measure people’s temperature and self-cleaning so are at more risk of catching You might have to queue in the car anti bacterial door handle covers. The audiences the disease. UNICEF is launching park before going in have also been wearing face masks and using hand a global initi ati ve to make sure saniti ser. We’ll have to wait and see if it works. people get the help they need. 6. HOME NEWS FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 ul ENGLAND GLASGOW UK Clap for Carers is back Police offi cer stabbed Help for homeless et read to start clapping again, in city centre att ack The Government has pledged £105m as the oss of the HS would like A Sudanese as lum seeker was shot dead iStock to councils to make sure homeless the Clap for Carers to return to help by police last week aft er he stabbed six people have somewhere safe to sta celebrate the service’s 72nd birthday. men, including a police offi cer and two aft er lockdown. During the pandemic n ul at pm people are eing members of staff at the Park Inn hotel. around 1 , rough sleepers were asked to give the HS a ig round of Around 1 as lum seekers were eing placed in hotels and B Bs to help applause. TV broadcasters will pause housed in the hotel during the lockdown, them self-isolate. But with hotels their transmissions as a mark of including the 28-year-old att acker, due to reopen on 4 July, chariti es respect and pu lic uildings will Badreddin Abadlla Adam. The three other are concerned that man people will be lit up blue for the NHS. victi ms were also asylum seekers, and all become homeless again. The funding are being treated in hospital. Police aren’t is intended to e used as a temporar treati ng the incident as a terrorist att ack soluti on unti l the Government has and are investi gati ng possible moti ves. worked out longer-term plans. ne guest at the hotel said that r Adam was upset at his treatment. Remember that events like this are onl in the news because they don’t happen oft en. iStock G e tt y
LONDON Sad anniversary n 7 ul , a remem rance ceremon will be held in Hyde Park to remember LONDON the people who were killed in co- Police break up parti es ordinated terrorist att acks in central The Met Police says it is “building London 15 years ago. Three bombs relati onships” with communiti es, went off on the Tube, and a fourth following several illegal street parti es on a bus. Three of the att ackers were in the capital in the past few weeks Briti sh and one was born in Jamaica, that resulted in police being att acked. and they said that the att acks were Police Commissioner Dame Cressida revenge for the wa that Britain Dick said the force had a “duty” to treated Muslims around the world. stop unlawful music events during the Att acks like this are very rare. If you’re COVID-19 pandemic. upset events like this, please talk to a trusted adult. Snapchat G e tt y
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OXFORD iStock BOURNEMOUTH More diversity Beach crowd fears Oxford University has revealed that, last year, one in fi ve A ‘major incident’ was declared at Bournemouth Beach as new undergraduates were from BA lack, Asian and thousands of people went to the seaside on one of the hott est minority ethnic) backgrounds. The proporti on of Briti sh days of the year so far. There were concerns that the beach was students from BAME backgrounds is now 22.1%, up from so busy that people weren’t able to social-distance properly 14.5% in 2015. However, some of the colleges and courses and were at risk of spreading the coronavirus. There were an are more diverse than others. The university’s Annual esti mated 500,000 visitors in Dorset on Thursday 25 June, roads Admissions Stati sti cal Report showed that between 2017 were gridlocked, eaches packed and there were reports of and 2019, 36% of students starti ng a medicine course fi ghts breaking out. Aft er everyone left , 33 tonnes of rubbish were BAME, compared to 10.5% for biomedical sciences. had to be cleaned up from along the coastline. 7. BIG NEWS HOW HAS FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 ul REBUILDING SCHOOL OUR SCHOOLS LOCKDOWN PLACES T E prime minister has announced a billion MADE YOU fund to improve schools NEEDED FOR all across England. he new ten- ear-plan will see SYRIAN new school uildings uilt and classrooms improved FEEL? It’s thought constructi on work REFUGEES will start on the fi rst 50 new projects in Septem er next ear A GROUP of chariti es have Although man welcomed the plans,
i tock come together to ask world there are concerns that it’s sti ll not leaders not to give up on the enough evin Courtne , oint eneral hundreds of thousands of yrian Secretary of the Nati onal Educati on refugee children who are sti ll not nion, said here are currentl 3,731 in school. school uildings in urgent need of immediate repair. In 2017, the Nati onal In 1 , world leaders pledged that Audit Offi ce esti mated it would cost A C AR TY is warning that the coronavirus pandemic could be all children who had een forced to 7 n to ring the school estate up to having a massive eff ect on young people’s mental health. fl ee the war in Syria would be given a school place within a ear However, standard; that fi gure will now be much he Childhood rust is worried because of COVID-19 are likely four years later, almost 750,000 Syrian higher ecause there has een three that disadvantaged children to increase the risk of depression refugee children are sti ll not in school. ears of decline he overnment are facing huge mental health and pro a l anxiet , as well as hile out of school, these oung has cut annual expenditure on school problems due to lockdown. Young possible post-traumati c stress.” people are more at risk of things like uildings more than 1 illion in the people interviewed during the Although mental health support earl marriage and child la our last two ears pandemic the charit revealed for children has now adapted In an open lett er, chariti es including he overnment sa s that the that the were reall concerned and ecome digital and virtual Save the Children and orld Vision “rebuilding projects will be greener, a out their famil ’s health, schools ecause of the pandemic, man are calling on leaders around the helping meet the government’s net being closed, a loss of routi ne, not disadvantaged children don’t have world to help these vulnera le ero target eing around other people and access to computers so are not children get an educati on. what the future holds getti ng the help they need. he charit also revealed that he Childhood rust has launched oung people living in a usive its Champions for Children homes have ecome even more campaign to tr to raise 3 million isolated during lockdown, as the for 96 chariti es that help 17,000 places the ’d usuall go to for oung people in ondon support, such as schools and If ou’re worried a out our outh clu s, are closed mental health and want to know G e tt y r aria oades from the ways you can look aft er it, check niversit of Bath sa s in the out FYI’s video, ental health
G e tt y report Current social distancing how do I sta mentall health measures enforced on children at fi rst.news/idgi PRICEY POOCH! ervice News Wales EET the world’s most expensive sheepdog. Elan Valley Sally, a 19-month-old border collie from Brecon, was ought an anon mous idder at an online sale for a whopping £19,451. The owner had posted videos of Elan Valley Sally in acti on on YouTube and Facebook so that buyers could see her super skills in acti on. The average price for a working dog is usually about £2,000. 8. WORLD NEWS FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 ul POLAND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO JAPAN Electi on division Ebola wiped out again Nin a studies
ast weekend, voters in Poland held The Democrati c Republic of the G e tt y A Japanese university has awarded the fi rst presidenti al electi on in the Congo (DRC) has declared that its its fi rst ever degree in ninja studies. European Union since the pandemic tenth outbreak of Ebola is offi cially Genichi Mitsuhashi, 45, completed his started. Current president Andrzej over. More than 2,200 people have Master’s course at Mie University in Duda (pictured) took home 43% of died since the latest out reak egan central Japan. Along with studying the the vote, which wasn’t quite enough in August 2018. The World Health histor of the famousl stealth , lack- to win. He’ll now face his closest Organizati on says the end of the clad warriors, Genichi Mitsuhashi challenger, Rafał Trzaskowski, in out reak was the result of hard work learned how nin as lived long ago a second electi on on 12 July. Mr across all parts of the government. According to his research, ninjas were Duda’s campaign has been criti cised More than 320,000 people were farmers during the morning, then for being anti -LGBT rights. vaccinated against ola – the largest trained in marti al arts in the evening ever campaign against the disease. – so he did the same! “With this combinati on, I thought I could learn a out the real nin a, he said G e tt y i tock
TANZANIA AUSTRALIA emstone ackpot anic buying returns A Tanzanian mining boss has earned Several Australian shops have £2.7 million (7.74bn Tanzanian reintroduced limits on the purchasing shillings) aft er discovering two record- of goods including toilet roll, hand sized tanzanite gemstones. The stones, saniti ser, eggs and pasta, following a found onl in a small northern region surge in panic buying. Shoppers began of the East African nati on, have been buying the products in bulk aft er there ought the government to e was a spike in COVID-19 cases in the put on show in Tanzania’s nati onal state of Victoria. The country’s prime museum. The boss will share 10% of minister, Scott Morrison, said that the mone among the miners who there was no reason to panic buy. found it, and the rest will go towards building a new shopping centre and school for the local area – aft er he’s thrown a party! NEW ZEALAND Wild west town for sale Mellonsfolly Ranch is a replica of an 1860s fronti er town in Wyoming, USA, and is available to buy for £9.4 million ($11.6m) to those looking for an
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` E may be four years older than the other girls in her class, but arisa OUR WORLD looks forward to going to school every day. I love school so much, sa s Parisa But in 1 , Iran said it would allow all favourite su ect is maths, ecause Afghan children to att end the country’s maths is ever where in the world state schools hanks to the government NAME: PARISA Parisa, now aged 1 , and her famil and UNHCR, Parisa got her fi rst taste of N CR fl ed Afghanistan ten years ago to escape a proper educati on when she was able LIVES: IRAN fi ghters who were terrorising their to go to a brand-new primary school. neighbourhood. Arriving in Iran, they “I am so happy that I can study side by found safet , ut arel had enough side with Iranian students, sa s Parisa, TO FIND OUT MORE, GO TO mone to live on, let alone cover the who wants to use her educati on to help WWW.UNHCR.ORG/PROTECTREFUGEES fees for school children in her nati ve country. 9. SCIENCE NEWS FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 ul The balloon will drift to the edge of space COAL Space Perspecti ve Space Perspecti CATASTROPHE i tock
NEW evidence of previous global warming and , mass exti ncti ons is worryingly similar to what is UP UP AND AWAY happening now, one expert says. VISITING outer space is sti ll a distant Space Perspecti ve will run tests from the Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State dream for anyone who isn’t an astronaut, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but it has big University in the USA believes that her fi ndings show but a day trip to the stars is already open plans to operate up to 500 fl ights from various us how the Earth responds to massive change long-term. for bookings sites across the USA by 2024. She thinks the recently discovered evidence should drive The race to get tourists into space is hotti ng up. A new company, Space Perspecti ve, is planning urgent change to save the planet. Neptune faces competi ti on from the Stratollite, uncrewed tests next year. If successful, reaching There was a mass exti ncti on of almost all animal life a balloon being developed by a company called the outer edges of the atmosphere could be as 252 million years ago (the Permian-Triassic exti ncti on), orld View nterprises, while the super-rich easy as fl ying abroad in a few years’ ti me. but the cause has challenged scienti sts for years. There Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are all The plan will be for a crew and up to eight have been many theories about how it happened. pouring money into developing commercial space passengers to travel in Neptune, a pressurised One of the most widely believed was that the burning vehicles. The advantage of the balloon is that it capsule att ached to a balloon the size of a football of coal on a huge scale had caused climate change, will be cheaper than a space plane or rocket. stadium fi lled with hydrogen. which in turn was catastrophic to existi ng life. Professor Space tourism may soon be a reality, but how They will drift upwards right to the edge of Elkins-Tanton and colleagues turned their att enti on to visitors get there is sti ll a very open questi on. space, 30km above the Earth. There, space a volcanic region of Siberia, Russia where it was known tourists will e a le to look ack at the arth that magma and lava fl ows had burned their way across and out to dark space and the sight of millions the landscape. of stars. Although the price is yet to be fi xed, the They collected over 500kg of volcanic rock and were luxury fl ight, which will take six hours, is likely to surprised to fi nd plenty of burnt material, including cost over £100,000. Because the capsule remains wood and coal. Professor Elkins-Tanton said: “We found within the Earth’s atmosphere, no special suits or towering river cliff s of nothing but volcaniclasti cs [rocks training are needed. It means that older people or created by explosive volcanic erupti ons] lining the river those with health problems won’t be excluded. for hundreds of miles. It was geologically astounding.” One downside (apart from the price!) may be It suggests that the heat of volcanic material burned the method of landing back on Earth. The balloon coal in the ground and plant life in big enough quanti ti es to create air polluti on that caused climate change. The
drift s back down from the stratosphere unti l ve Space Perspecti it splashes down in the sea. Passengers, crew, Earth suff ered massive global warming at the ti me, The Neptune capsule capsule and balloon are then recovered by ship. i tock which increased the temperatures of the seas and eventually killed off 96% of all marine life on the planet.
MEET THE This report is from the cience useum in ondon A E you ever been given one of those balloons SLOTHBOT! that fl oat away when you let go? C N ER N endangered These aren’t the sort you blow up yourself using air, but are in fact fi lled with a gas called helium. animals could be helped by But what do we know about helium? Well, imagine the the arrival of the lothBot. balloon. We know that what’s inside it is a gas because it Currentl eing tested efore Tech eorgia Felt, Rob is fi lling up all the space inside the balloon and, when you being put to work, the cute-faced robot designed by scienti sts at the Georgia squeeze it, it bounces back into its original shape. Insti tute of Technology in the US will monitor animals and plant life. It is powered The balloon also rises in the air, and if you push it down by solar panels and hangs on a wire suspended between two trees. The energy- i tock it comes back up. This tells us that the gas inside the effi cient SlothBot moves slowly like a real sloth, collecti ng informati on such balloon is lighter than air. as the temperature, weather and the carbon dioxide levels of the area. You can learn more on the BBC iPlayer, where the Science Museum Group and With its strong outer casing that protects the machinery inside, the Slothbot BBC Bitesize Daily bring you some jaw-dropping science demonstrati ons and can be left in place for months, saving scienti sts years of fi eld research. experiments to try at home. See www.bbc.co.uk iplayer group p nk f. 10. SPECIAL REPORT FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 ul T E research shows a mixed picture of lockdown life for B TE ZE teenagers, showing a big increase Despite more in snacking, fresh enthusiasm for home cooked cooking and a new en oyment meals, not being of eati ng as a family. in school led to an increase in HUNGRY FOR snacking, with snacking he stud of more than more – oft en on crisps and 1, teenagers, Bite chocolate – under lockdown. The Back 3 and the u ’s and research showed that children in St homas’ Charit , also shows a gap poorer homes were more likely etween the rich and poor when it to snack and less likely to eat comes to diet, with an appeti te among fresh fruit and vegetables than oung people for a fairer food s stem those in wealthier homes. Christi na Adane is co-chair of Bite Back, a youth-led organisati on campaigning for good food and good CHANGE health for ever child and oung First News has been looking at a new report person growing up in the She showing how young people’s eati ng habits have said I want to e part of a world changed during lockdown. where our health is the priorit of the food industr here are enough people that think the same wa for this change to happen we ust need to take the opportunit that lockdown gave us to have a fresh start but others I snack more oft en B TE ZE One of the good eff ects of lockdown has been an increase in the amount of water being drunk by teens. The research showed that, because it was less easy to get out to buy drinks, the taps at home had encouraged more than half of young people to drink more water.
Following the research, Bite Back 3 wants the overnment to think about these fi ve things ahead of new anti -obesity plans expected to be announced later this month
. Ensure no child goes without a decent meal B TE ZE in the school holidays, ome of young people no matt er where they live feel eati ng as a family has 2. ake healthy foods cheaper improved their health and than unhealthy foods wellbeing while in lockdown. . ake it easier to get drinking water, wherever they are . When it comes to adverti sing, put healthy opti ons centre stage and take the spotlight off junk food . Redesign the high street to include healthy, safe spaces to hang out B TE ZE ames oop, C of Bite Back 3 , A third of teens reported cooking who commissioned the research, said more, although those from If the prime minister is serious a out poorer families were stepping tackling o esit , we must start with the up to take responsibility for health of oung people hose we have love to conti nue doing it.” preparing meals for key worker listened to have een clear – the want single parents rather than more opportuniti es to be healthy. Now cooking for en oyment. is the ti me to act.” 11. ANIMAL NEWS FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 ul HEAT
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TIGERS, elephants, sun bears and a whole host of other species have been fi lmed taking advantage of a jungle pool to beat the heat in Thailand. Camera trap footage fi lmed over a month in Thailand’s Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary found a wide variety of species used the water hole – from large predators such as ti gers, to smaller species of bird, like WC the jungle fowl. Conservati onists are thrilled by the variety of species they fi lmed using the natural pool in the sanctuary, aft er spending years trying to protect and conserve the vast Western Forest Complex of nati onal parks and sanctuaries in Thailand and Myanmar. WC The project was a collaborati on between the Wildlife Conservati on Society and the Thai government, to protect the forest and to increase ranger patrols in the area. Tigers in parti cular have benefi ted, as the increased patrols have helped protect them from poachers and seen their numbers increase.
REEFS NEED PROTECTION SEAHORSE SURPRISE A NEW study has found that ust 2. of the world’s tropical coral reefs are offi cially protected by law. Conservati onists are concerned ore than million people about the lack of protecti on for around the world rely on reefs such important habitats and and the fi sh that live in them. If
ecosystems around the world, reefs aren’t properly protected mith Dr Richard parti cularly in areas where there then it won’t be long before the is a lot of contact with people. number of fi sh living there becomes They are urging governments and dangerously low. The full study is other organisati ons to make offi cial published in the latest editi on of marine protecti on areas a priority. the ournal arine olicy.
A NEW species of pygmy seahorse has been A W F has seen spott ed in discovered in outh Africa.
ichael arkovina northern France for the fi rst ti me The ti ny seahorse is no bigger than a grain of rice and in over years. The animal has a set of sharp-ti pped spines on its back. It has been was caught on CCT wandering named the African or Sodwana Bay pygmy seahorse, through the town of ondini res. aft er the region where it was found. A small number of wolves are Researchers working in the area were surprised to known to live in France, but much fi nd the species, as most of the other pygmy seahorse further south and in the Alps. species are found more than 8,000 kilometres away in the southwestern Pacifi c Ocean. Some of you may be going back to school and things will seem a bit di erent We have looked at how schools can open in a safe way.
reducing the keeping children having staggered size of classes in small “bubble” break and lunch times, groups without as well as drop-o s mixing with others and pick-ups
more reducing schools using not travelling cleaning the use of outdoor space to school on shared items as much as public transport they can if possible
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BIGPICTURE Lockhart Maclean
AFTER days at sea, the crew of the cean oyages Insti tute ship S/V Kwai successfully removed a record 93.4 tonnes of fi shing nets and other plasti c junk from the sea. The operati on was carried out in the part of the Pacifi c Ocean commonly known as the Great Pacifi c Garbage Patch, or North Pacifi c Subtropical Convergence Zone, to give it its offi cial name. This area is the centre of what’s known as a gyre, which is a circular current. The way the current moves leads to a build-up of rubbish in the middle, which can be targeted by clean-up expediti ons like this one. “The oceans can’t wait for these nets and debris to break down into microplasti cs,” said Mary Crowley, the founder of the Ocean Voyages Insti tute. “There is no doubt in my mind that our work is making the oceans healthier for the planet and safer for marine wildlife, as these nets will never again entangle or harm a whale, dolphin, turtle or reef.” 14. SPECIAL REPORT by Dr Martin Kunz from the International Bee Research Association
A European honeybee in its hive SWEET iStock AND SOUR IN recent years, it’s become clear that many bee species are in trouble, due to the increasing effect that humans are having on the environment. As well as providing us with honey, bees (and other insects) also pollinate most of the crops that the world relies on. Dr Martin Kunz is on the management committee of the International Bee Research Association (IBRA). He also keeps bees as a
hobby, and he wrote this piece for us about © M.Kunz the difficult challenges that these amazing creatures are faced with.
COLLECTING NECTAR To produce 1kg of honey, honeybees must collect nectar from four million flowers. So, obviously we need a lot of These beehives are on the roof of a high-rise building
flowering plants if we want honey. Someone © M.Kunz in Manhattan, New York suggested that each person in London should plant one flower – but those nine million blossoms would only provide nectar for 2.5kg of honey, which isn’t enough, even though each Two European blossom is visited multiple times. Bees need UNDERSTANDING BEES honeybees in the USA meadows full of flowers, and in particular they need And that’s just one of the problems bees approach a stingy cactus trees: I don’t think anyone has ever estimated the face. Like humans, when too many things go number of blossoms on a chestnut or linden tree. wrong and don’t work, they get stressed and This is called swarming, and is very different But it’s not only a question of quantity [amount]. In can fall ill, and they may even die. When all the from, say, a dog having a pup. You may have spring, of course, all those fields with yellow flowers bees in a hive die, it’s called a colony collapse. seen thousands of bees hanging from a branch (from rapeseed plants) provide a lot of nectar, but When we try to understand bees, it’s – that is a swarm. What’s interesting is that once they’re gone most of the countryside is like important to look not at one individual bee, unlike humans, where the young generation a food desert for bees for the rest of the year. but at a whole colony. In the summertime usually moves out when finished with school The second problem with such a mono-diet (eating there is one queen and up to 50,000 worker and training, among bees it is the older bees just one thing) is that it is unhealthy. Imagine that bees, which are all female and do all the that leave their hive. That way, they give the you were only fed cheese on toast, day in and day work, including raising the young, cleaning next generation a better chance to start the out, for weeks. Not only would it be boring, but the and defending the colony, and foraging. There cycle all over again. A swarm only has two or chances are that you’d also feel or even get sick. It’s are also a couple of hundred drones, which three days in which to find a new home. After the same for bees: they need a variety of food. Bees are males whose only purpose is to mate that, the honey they took with them in their even self-medicate [treat themselves with medicine]: with a queen. This colony, a so-called ‘super stomachs runs out and they starve. if they have an upset stomach (it happens!), they organism’, acts like one animal. When apple Increasingly, swarming bees find it hard to know which plants to visit. Although bees living in and other trees are flowering, known as nectar find suitable new homes. Before the human urban areas may have a wider choice of flowers, flow, bees store as much food as possible. They population became so large, bees had it much there are still not enough of them. also try to feed and raise as many young bees easier and could find an old tree with a nice It’s estimated that there are around as they can. A summer bee usually only lives hole, possibly made and left by a woodpecker. 5,000 bee colonies in London for six weeks, so there is a constant renewal, Nowadays, bees settle for gaps between wall alone – and despite all the parks both of individual bees and colonies. insulation, for example. It’s not good and gardens, there may simply Remember, a colony acts like a single for them, and usually not good for the not be enough food for them all. animal – and it gives birth to a new one. people living in that house either. FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 July 2020 .15
PROBLEMS FOR BEES Other problems bees face, apart from food and housing issues, are also related to the changing environment. Many farmers try to protect their crops from hungry insects that nibble, munch and suck, and many garden owners try to protect their flowers. To do this, they both spray pesticides, which do what they are supposed to do: they kill insects. To a farmer or a gardener, the bugs that eat their crops or garden plants are ‘pests’, but there are also beneficial insects like bees that have a good effect. It is becoming more and more obvious that these poisons also harm us humans when they end up in our water and our food.
© M.Kunz Climate change, too, makes the life of bees harder. With spring beginning earlier, plants may flower earlier than before, when bees may not be ready yet. After all, they had to huddle in their hives for months over the cold season. In winter, a colony usually has This swarm shut down a construction site. It needed to fewer than 10,000 workers and just one queen but be pushed out of the pipe before it could be rehoused no drones, as they all get kicked out of their hives before the end of the summer. When days get longer, it takes time to grow the colony to its full summer size, and if the blossoms are finished before the colony has achieved full strength, it may starve. Then there are a growing number of pests and diseases that increasingly make life difficult for our bees. You may have heard of the Asian hornet, one of which can easily eat dozens of honeybees. Imagine what a colony of those can do in an
© M.Kunz afternoon to a hive of honeybees. These threats reach us as a result of internationally-traded goods and because of climate change. Fortunately, when we look at the number of © M.Kunz An A dorsata (a rock bee) on a cotton honeybee colonies in the world, we see their flower. The bee is the size of a numbers are increasing. That’s because they are so European hornet resilient and because there are still plenty of areas where there aren’t so many people, and where agriculture is not as industrialised as in Europe.
A stingless bee (bottom right) approaching an onion flower. Note how tiny it is! Until the middle of the 19th century, bees were mostly kept in woven skeps, sometimes with mud covers. When it’s too hot, bees form a ‘fan’ outside and use their wings to blow cool air into their hive © M.Kunz
Here you can see honey stores (top left: white already with a lid; bottom left: open) and cells with pollen (centre). The hexagonal structure provides maximum strength with the minimum of material
BEES AROUND THE WORLD We’ve only talked about one honeybee species – Apis mellifera, the European honeybee. There are about a dozen other types of Apis honeybees, all of which live only in Asia, and all of which are in serious decline because their habitats are under threat. And don’t get me started on bumblebees and the solitary bees (which do not form colonies). All in all, scientists count some 25,000 bee species globally. While very little detail is known © M.Kunz about most of them, what is increasingly clear is that their numbers are declining as a result of human activities. So, if we want to help not just our honeybees, but bees, insects and animals in general, we need to protect trees, plants and rivers. In short, we need to protect OUR planet. 16. ENTERTAINMENT FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 July 2020 INTO THE UNKNOWN FOR the fi rst ti me in forever, rozen fans are being invited to see behind the scenes of rozen with a brand-new docuseries about the making of the hit animati on.
Frozen fans are going to want to venture over to isney this week to check out the new docuseries, Into the nknown: Making isney Frozen 2. he new si part series will give Frozen fans a never before seen sneak peek behind the curtain of the wizards at Walt isney Animati on Studios in acti on, as they use their magic to add the fi nal touches to Frozen 2. The series started shooti ng at the end of 2018 and was fi lmed conti nuously in the months leading up to the world premiere ofFrozen 2 in November 2019. The fi lm-makers, voice cast, arti sts and songwriters all opened their doors for the cameras to reveal the astonishing amount of work that goes into making such an epic family fi lm spoiler alert: it’s a lot . First ews was invited to a virtual press conference last week to learn more about the series from the fi lm-makers, as well as Idina Menzel (the voice of Elsa) and Josh Gad (who
plays Olaf). The team off ered us a fl urry of juicy Frozen goss – check out the best bits below isney FROZEN SECRETS DEFROSTED
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez – who Elsa’s song, how ourself, The cameras fi lmed Josh Gad as he recorded musical lines wrote all the songs we love from rozen and rozen caused a huge amount of stress for Olaf in the recording booth. Josh recently admitt ed that – appear in the new series. They spontaneously for the fi lm’s animators, directors the cameras “inti midated” him, so much so that he had broke into song during the press conference, and composers! You’ll get to to re-record his singing parts once the cameras had left ! performing a renditi on ofSome Things Never watch this creati ve journey in Josh added: “I’m not Idina! She performs in front of 50,000 hange, the fi rst song that appears in rozen . the documentary series. people and is like: ‘That was a small audience!’”
When asked about the new Disney+ series, Idina Menzel said: “Josh [Gad] One of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez’s biggest regrets from and I, and the whole cast, we come in [to the studio], we do our own thing, rozen is that they never wrote a song for Kristoff (voiced by Jonathan we have a great ti me, but we get to be reminded of how talented all the other Groff ). For this reason, Kristoff was given his own ballad in rozen , [fi lm-makers and composers] are. They’re always so collaborati ve and allow us Lost in the Woods. to see their process – I’m just awestruck. And, you know, it humbles me being in something like this, where you see just how much work goes into it. Getti ng to Jonathan Groff admire everyone’s talent made work fun.” The new isney documentary series was shot over the course of 115 days!
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The topic of rozen found its way into the conversati on.
isney Although there’s no offi cial announcement yet, it’s nice to
Josh Gad in the studio know that it’s defi nitely a possibility! isney Stream Into the Unknown: Making rozen on Disney+ now! 17. ENTERTAINMENT FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 July 2020
THIS WEEK y Gett isneyland aris 1 has announced a phased reopening OF THE WEEK from 15 July 2020, starti ng with PICS both theme parks, Disney’s Newport Bay Club NET I and earl tudios have released hotel and Disney Village. New health and safety the fi rst trailer, as well as never-before- measures will be introduced for cast members and seen images, for their new animated guests, and the numbers of visitors each day will musical, Over The Moon. be limited. All Disney parks were forced to shut here’s been a huge amount of buzz around their gates in March 2020, in response to the global the new musical movie recently. ot only did coronavirus pandemic. Disneyland Paris has been Netf lix and Pearl Studios release fi rst-look images closed since 16 March. and a trailer for the upcoming musical treat, but they also held a virtual press conference with the Netf lix has fi lm’s A-list cast. Over he Moon tells the story of lix/PearlNetf Studios 2 confi rmed that a bright young girl who builds a rocket to go to the a Chicken Run se uel moon to prove the existence of a legendary Moon is set to hatch on the Goddess. She ends up on an unexpected quest streaming service there and discovers a land of fantasti cal creatures.
in the near future. y Gett Over The Moon will be released on Netf lix this Netf lix announced autumn. the news on social media, saying: “POULTRY NEWS: Exactly 20 years to the day since the original was released, we can confi rm there will be a Chicken Run sequel coming to Netf lix!” Egg-cellent!
English Nati onal Ballet School has announced 3 that this year’s Summer Performance and
Graduati on Ceremony will be streamed online for Netf lix/Pearl Studios lix/Pearl Netf the fi rst ti me in its history via the school’s website lix/Pearl StudiosNetf on Saturday 11 July from 7.30pm.
What is Oliver like? Oliver is a sensiti ve, intuiti ve kid who is just basically a normal kid, besides the
GABRIEL fact that he is an engineering genius. ionsgate FIVE He has a really special connecti on with MINUTES his parents and his dog and that is what BATEMAN really drives the fi lm, his connecti on WITH… with those people. Oliver invents a machine that allows him to talk to his dog. What would you like to invent? Something that would help you talk to your dog, like in this fi lm, would be prett y cool. There are so many cool things you could do. If fl ying is on the a professional environment just lift s everyone’s table or teleportati on, I’d love to be able to do that! spirits. It’s so nice to have a dog in an environment that can someti mes be tense or stressful. Do you have any pets that you’d like to talk to? What made you want to be in this fi lm? I grew up with a lot of dogs but I don’t have any I just really liked the message that it sends about dogs right now right now I have a cat. I guess I appreciati ng the litt le things. I think it tells a really would ask him if he is happy because you can’t beauti ful story about family and the trials that you really tell all the ti me with animals. I’d ask him what can go through and how appreciati ng simple things he does like and what he doesn’t like. It would be can help that. I also really liked Oliver as a character. ionsgate really interesti ng to understand how he thinks. I had never played a tech genius before so I thought that was What was it like working with really interesti ng! a dog on a fi lm set? You would think it would be hard but the dog Think Like A Dog is on trainers were so amazing that JC, the dog, was THE actor tells us about his character Oliver digital download from always doing the right thing and perfect to work in the new fi lm, Think Like A Dog. 6 July and DVD from 20 July with. Outside of that, just having a dog around in 18. MAPED HELIX Adverti sement feature FirstNews Issue 733 3 – 9 July 2020 GET CREATIVE WITH MAPED HELIX! HA E OU E ER WI HE THAT OU OU E I N OUR OWN IE E O TATIONER
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Well, she’s had a fair few years to perfect those puppy-dog eyes, THE GOLDEN hasn’t she? Aww! GOLDEN RETRIEVER MEET August, the world’s oldest golden retriever. August, also known as Augie, turned 20 in April. That’s prett y impressive considering the average lifespan for her breed is 10-12 years! GoldHeart Golden Retriever Rescue in Maryland, USA, says there are some accounts of retrievers reaching 17, 18 and even 19. But they reckon Augie is the “oldest known, oldest living golden retriever”. Augie was born on 24 April 2000 and lives GoldHeart Golden Retrievers Rescue via Facebook Rescue GoldHeart Golden Retrievers with her owners Jennifer and teve in Tennessee, USA. Despite her age, Augie can sti ll move around well although she’s apparently a bit shaky when she fi rst gets up) and enjoys daily walks around the yard. Congratulati ons, Augie. You don’t look a day over 12 PERFORMING TO A PACKED LIFELONG HOUSE (OF PLANTS) FRIENDS @_woollyback via Twitt er/Dolphin Research Center 2 Center Research er/Dolphin via Twitt @_woollyback Gran Teatre del Liceu via Facebook Teatre Gran
AR E ONA’ opera house recently celebrated the lift ing of NA of two besti es – who just happen lockdown by performing to a packed house – of pott ed plants. to be a dog and a dolphin – have gone he ran eatre del iceu in arcelona held a very special viral online. concert last Monday to celebrate COVID-19 restricti ons being lift ed It’s like something out of a Disney fi lm, isn’t it? in the bustling Catalonian city. The live performance featured the Except this unlikely friendship is so much bett er UceLi Quartet playing for an audience of 2,292 pott ed plants. because it’s actually real However, the renditi on of opera composer Puccini’s Crisantemi A number of pictures of unner the dog and was also livestreamed to human music-lovers. The plants were elta the dolphin have warmed people’s hearts acquired from nearby nurseries and all 2,292 have now been this week, including these two here. donated to healthcare workers from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. The pair met at a dolphin sanctuary in the USA.
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Championships G e tt y will now be held. 4 he event was RED due to take place in June but has been rescheduled twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Spectators won’t be allowed to att end. Jodie Williams below will be hoping to keep the ALL ABOUT 200m ti tle she won last year.
G e tt y IT! A fan celebrates at Liverpool’s stadium, Anfi eld, the night his team won the Premier League
LIVERPOOL are champions of England for the fi rst ti me in 30 years. They last won the ti tle way back in 1990, but this is the fi rst ti me the Reds have won the Premier League (it was sti ll called the First Division back then). They clinched the trophy aft er Manchester City’s defeat at Chelsea made it impossible for them to catch up with the Reds. Jürgen Klopp’s side (right) have had an incredible season, winning the ti tle with a record-breaking seven games to spare. They have now won the remier eague top division 19 ti mes in their history, just one short of Manchester United. teams make up this year’s FA Cup As First News went to press, semi-fi nalists. these three players had appeared In the quarters, in every Premier League game for 4 Arsenal beat Liverpool this season: from left , Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil Sheffi eld United, while Newcastle lost van Dijk (who has played every at home to Manchester City. Chelsea minute), and Roberto Firmino won at Leicester and Manchester United beat Norwich thanks Liverpool have now won the ti tle in eight diff erent to a goal by G e tt y decades: the 1900s, arry Maguire 1920s, 1940s, 1960s, (right). Arsenal 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and will play Man 2020s. Before this year’s City and Man triumph, their last win United will was in 1990 (left ), when play Chelsea. the top fl ight was known as the First Division strokes was Meghan Thousands of Reds fans MacLaren’s gathered at Anfi eld (right) Some 17 goals have been scored by forward winning margin in and in Liverpool city centre Mohamed Salah so far this season. Sadio Mané the second event to celebrate the Premier has got 15 and Roberto Firmino has nett ed eight 2 at the ose adies League win, despite eries. he English COVID-19 lockdown rules. golfer topped Some police offi cers were the leaderboard, att acked with glasses and G e tt y ahead of 0 other bott les. In a joint statement players. here are by the club, police and a total of seven Liverpool City Council, fans’ behaviour was described as tournaments in “wholly unacceptable” the series.