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THEUK’S GREEDY GULLS WARWICK LEWIS’S CHILDREN’S P3 DAVIS INSPIRING NEWSPAPER WITH MORE THAN INTERVIEW WIN 2.6 MILLION* READERS! P16 P28 Issue 753 £2.25 20 – 26 November 2020 HELPING THE UK GROW NEWS I SPORTS I ENTERTAINMENT I INTERVIEWS I PUZZLES I COMPETITIONS I WWF SAVING WILDLIFE FROM COVID THE WWF charity has announced plans to help protect animals from the knock-on eff ects of the coronavirus, showing that it’s not just humans whose lives have been aff ected. by Shelley Moulden people going on holiday there, but this year the appeal to raise £2m to improve the Kenyan tourism industry has lost up to 90% of the lives of 27,000 people in southern People who live in East Africa are fi nding life a money it would normally get from visitors. These Kenya and northern Tanzania, while lot more diffi cult because of the coronavirus, and losses have led to people losing their jobs and to protecti ng the local wildlife and this has had a huge impact on the wildlife they live food shortages. Many communiti es are struggling, their habitats. All donati ons to the alongside, including elephants and lions. and animals such as lions and elephants are at risk appeal will be doubled by the UK The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that the of serious injury or death from poisoning or illegal Government, up to £2m. tourism industry in these areas has plummeted. hunti ng because many rangers are out of work. For more informati on on the Land for Life appeal, East Africa usually earns around £36 billion from To help, the WWF is launching the Land for Life visit the WWF website at wwf.org.uk. *First News readership is 2,626,625. Source: Opinion Matt ers 2020. First News is the widest-read of all children’s publicati ons audited in the UK. First News supports children’s chariti es – see page 16 2. QUICK NEWS FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 HOLLYWOOD JENGA HITS COMES TO WALES THE HEIGHTS Leslie Scott has one of the best jobs ever – making up games. Now she’s made it to the top because one of her best known, QUICK NEWS Jenga, has been accepted into TO READ YOURSELF AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS the National Toy Hall of Fame. It joins games like marbles, dominoes, chess and Monopoly in the National Museum of Play in New York. She made up the game TAYLOR MIFFED DRAGON FLIGHT to keep her brother and sister amused when they were living Getty American space agency NASA has in Africa. The name is Swahili for sent its first astronauts into space on ‘to build’ and has now sold 100 Two Hollywood stars have been an official commercial space flight. million sets around the world. approved by fans as the new owners Getty Until now the rockets were paid for of their football club, Wrexham FC. and built by governments. This time Ryan Reynolds (above left) and Rob the space agency bought seats for McElhenney are putting £2m of their the three astronauts on the Dragon ED’S CD SALE own money into the Welsh club. The capsule, which was built and paid A rare Ed Sheeran CD recorded when pair plan to be very hands-on, visiting for by Tesla boss Elon Musk’s SpaceX he was 13 is being put up for sale the ground regularly and spending company. A Japanese astronaut was to help struggling musicians. The time with the supporters. They want also on board. The capsule docked demo, which was bought from the to make the National League club, safely with the International Space singer’s mum in 2005, contains 14 of currently just above the relegation Station (ISS) and the astronauts will his earliest songs. The anonymous zone, into a “global force”. Their Taylor Swift claims she has been left remain there until April. seller wants the money to go to other ambitious plans will be followed in the dark about the sale of some of local musicians in Suffolk, Ed’s home in a documentary for TV. Rob said the earliest recordings of her songs, county. Another early CD was recently they will engage the club and and didn’t get a chance to buy them BIRD OF THE YEAR sold for £50,000, though it’s thought community “in the same way herself. She revealed her anger on this one might raise half that amount. as Manchester United”. Twitter, saying that the previous owner, Scooter Braun, also tried to stop her talking about him and the RHINO BABY HOUSE CLEAN-UP deal. She sold the ownership or ‘rights’ Proceedings in Parliament came to a to her first six albums to a record iStock halt briefly this week when cleaners in company, who gave her money to start safety suits popped in for some “extra her career. They then sold them to cleaning” of the House of Commons, Braun. She is furious that she hasn’t forcing MPs to leave the chamber had a chance to control her own music Zoo Chester mid-debate. It comes after PM Boris and that other people are making so Johnson and six MPs were told to self- much money from her songs. isolate when an MP tested positive for COVID-19 following a Downing It’s a bit smelly, can’t fly, hides Street meeting. TYRE FIRE during the daytime and is the world’s A massive fire in Bradford closed 13 heaviest parrot, but that hasn’t COVID HERO AWARD schools and disrupted travel during stopped New Zealanders voting the morning rush hour. The blaze at a the kakapo their Bird of the Year. A man who lost his sight six years go-kart track was caused by scrapped The critically endangered parrot, ago has been nominated for a Zookeepers at Chester Zoo are tyres that caught fire. Fifteen fire also known as the ‘mighty moss COVID heroes award by the Royal celebrating the birth of a female black engines and 100 firefighters were chicken’, is the only bird to have won National Institute for the Blind rhino. Mum and calf are said to be involved in putting out the blaze. the competition twice. The bird’s (RNIB). Carl Galloway spent the bonding well. The zoo has launched Fortunately no-one was hurt. popularity will hopefully boost further first lockdown creating PPE from a poll on its Facebook page to decide efforts to improve its numbers, which his home, using voice recognition her name. Voters can choose from a now stand at just 213. software and 3D printers. He STOCKING APPEAL shortlist of Kasulu, Koshi and Kaari. It’s designed and made lightweight good news for the species, as there butterfly clips to make it more Great Ormond Street Hospital has HERO DIPLOMAT are only about 1,000 left in the wild. comfortable for health workers to launched its annual Stocking Appeal. The future of these animals could wear masks when they were busy Christmas at home with the family A British diplomat has been praised lie almost entirely in conservation caring for patients. “If you can is not always possible for children for saving a drowning woman in China. projects, with calves being born in make others happy, that’s all that who are being treated for an illness, Stephen Ellison was walking by a breeding programmes in Europe to counts,” he said. The award aims so the appeal is designed to bring river when a young woman slipped boost populations in Africa. The arrival to recognise people with sight Christmas to the hospital. Help to and fell in. She was struggling and comes only days after a male black loss who have gone above and make it more of a happy time by appeared to lose consciousness. The rhino was born in the Netherlands, beyond to make life easier during leaving a message of Christmas Consul-General, who regularly does and three weeks after a rare white the pandemic. cheer! For more information, go triathlons, dived in and pulled her to female rhino was born in the US, all to gosh.org/stockingappeal. the bank. The student soon recovered. giving hope for rhino survival. 3. BIG NEWS FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 COULD SEAWEED iStock SOLVE HUNGER? iStock IT’S WORLD CHILDREN’S DAY! FRIDAY 20 November is UNICEF World Children’s Day – Super seaweed – is there a day to imagine a bett er future for every child. anything it can’t do? IF we farmed just 2% of the ocean, we’d have enough protein Wor Chres a s NIC’s oba a o ato or to feed the enti re world, say experts. And it’s all thanks to seaweed. hre b hre mark the aopto o the te Natos Coveto o the hts o the Ch o 20 November eor avsor at the N et oumee Scota a Iea” a the COI paem has affete ma hres ves reveals that seaweed is prett y amazing; it’s Seaweed has lots of diff erent uses. It can a mae t harer or them to eperee the tpe o hhoo extreme proterh o at o be used as an organic ferti liser, a sustainable that as protete the Coveto he paem has aso bee carbohyrates a rh vtams a ro replacement for plasti cs and an ingredient in hae or parets o ouer hre ho ee support to the oea s u o t It aso makes reat cosmeti cs and medicines. Plus, it plays a key role hep et them throuh the touh tmes o toa a thrve to ama ee hh heps the envroment in tackling ocean polluti on by cleaning the water.