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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 or Ch re s a s NIC s oba a o a t o or to feed the enti re world, say experts. And it’s all thanks to seaweed. h re b h re mark the a opt o o the te Nat o s Co ve t o o the hts o the Ch o 20 November e or a v sor at the N e t oume e ot a a I e a a the C I pa em has a e te ma h re s ves reveals that seaweed is prett y amazing; it’s Seaweed has lots of diff erent uses. It can a ma e t har er or them to e per e e the t pe o h hoo e treme prote r h o at o be used as an organic ferti liser, a sustainable that as prote te the Co ve t o he pa em has a so bee arboh rates a r h v tam s a ro replacement for plasti cs and an ingredient in ha e or pare ts o ou er h re ho ee support to the o ea s u o t It a so makes reat cosmeti cs and medicines. Plus, it plays a key role he p et them throu h the tou h t mes o to a a thr ve to a ma ee h h he ps the e v ro me t in tackling ocean polluti on by cleaning the water. the uture I vesto k ere e o sea ee base oo o h s t sea ee use more e there s or or Ch re s a 2020 NIC he ou at o rather tha so metha e em ss o s ou be ut ot mu h spa e to ro u er ater orests ear a esame orkshop have teame up or a e are t by 90%, and improve digesti on while boosti ng shorelines and it can be diffi cult to get a licence art ersh p to support pare ts a are vers arou the or the a ma s mmu e s stems h h re u es the to ro t o tr to he p the N oba Compa t he ve reate spe a o te t to he p pare ts promote the r need for anti bioti cs,” says Mr Doumeizel. “This has published the Seaweed Manifesto, which o e be a e oura e p a u ear at home or the r s a rea happe some ou tr es su h as es r bes the r v s o or the sea ee ustr h re here are eve e v eos eatur avour te esame treet r e s ke mo a h s mum a es e to support pare ts the r e orts to ve h re a stro hea th start SADLY, because of the coronavirus pandemic, this ee the v eos a out more at www.unicef.org/parenting OUR TAKEOVER year’s First News Takeover Challenge, which inspires and prepares young people for the world of work, CHALLENGE has been postponed. But, don’t worry, if you’re keen to see what life’s really like WILL BE BACK in your dream career, you’ll sti ll have the chance when the Takeover Challenge returns in 2021. And, right now, check IN 2021 out lots of job videos at fi rstcareers.co.uk. NEW LAWS AGAINST ANTI-VAXXERS? SNEAKY SEAGULLS ARE LABOUR politi cians are proposing new laws to remove anti -vaccinati on content from social media. evera C I va at o s are AFTER YOUR SNACKS! om soo but some peop e – k o RESEARCH has revealed that sneaky seagulls know the best ti mes as a t va ers – o t trust abs abour G e tt y to visit places to get food, including when school break ti mes are! po t a s a t emer e a s to be Scienti sts from the University of Bristol spent a month observing seagulls, put to p a e to stop these peop e rom post o te t a a st and spott ed the brainy birds arriving at schools for break ti mes to hoover iStock va at o s o so a me a ha o ea th e retar o atha up left over food. They were also seen visiti ng rubbish dumps, mostly on sh orth to k Ne s that a erous o se se s be eek a s he the k e resh aste as be e vere I a t the sprea o so a me a b peop e ho are a a st va at o s number of seagulls at schools was three ti mes higher when kids were a there are o er s that t estro s peop e s trust va es outside eati ng their snacks or packed lunches. This ability to adapt to a he over me t sa s t s tak the ssue ser ous a has human ti metable is one reason the numbers of gulls has gone up so much se ure prom ses rom a ebook tter a oo e to ta k e in citi es in the last 40 years. the prob em 4. NEWS IN PICTURES FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 G e tt y
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of 11 arti sts have been working over two weeks to hand-paint an 18-storey portrait of actor Nicole Kidman on a building overlooking Sydney’s Kings Cross district. The 18.4 x 36.8m mural is the largest of its kind in the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrives on a crane before being hoisted southern hemisphere. into place. 3 ISSUES FOR £1 SUBSCRIBE.FIRSTNEWS.CO.UK 5. BIG NEWS FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 EDITOR’S COMMENT OUR front page story shows that the LIVING WALLS eff ects of the pandemic spread far wider than the virus itself. o the e ome e s about a poss b e va e or oro av rus be ore Chr stmas mea s that ot o e start to be ab e to th k about our ves retur to someth more PROTECT ANIMALS orma but t be esprea oo e s Hooray for all the scienti sts who have quietly got on with the r re b e ork he ho e or s hab ta ts – huma a a ma – o e them a ot Get First News delivered to your home! TRY 3 ISSUES FOR £1
African People & Wildlife/Felipe Rodriguez Rodriguez & Wildlife/Felipe People African Visit subscribe.fi rstnews.co.uk A WWF partner group, African People & Wildlife, has been working with the Maasai people of Tanzania to build ‘living walls’ to protect livestock.
GOOD WEEK FOR… G e tt y he v a s a so k o as orra s protecti ng livestock, and the sustainable are ma e rom thor r a m rrh trees use o trees re e erates a s apes KYLIE MINOGUE that have bee p a te a r e u ers Raphael Leemai Siria, a Maasai herdsman SINGER Kylie Minogue has become the the p a e a e e o arou the trees ho has ost hu re s o vesto k over the fi rst female to have a No1 album on the and fasten it to the branches. Over ti me, years, says that: “In the past, as many as UK Charts in fi ve consecuti ve decades! the trees ro a eave to the e 25% of catt le were eaten by predators in th her e a bum s o, Kylie has now mak the v a s eve tou her a avera e ear No tha ks to the v also had more UK No1 albums than music WWF called the designs a “triple win for a s he oes t have to orr legends Sir Elton John, Sir Cliff Richard peop e e a the p a et s e as ore tha 000 trees have bee a eor e hae protecti ng big cats [from people defending p a te to bu v a s s e the their animals], they benefi t people by fi rst one was created back in 2008. BAD WEEK FOR… THE PRIME MINISTER or s oh so has bee to to se isolate, aft er he had a meeti ng indoors with a WALES SCRAPS EXAMS Conservati ve MP who then tested positi ve for PUPILS in Wales will not have to take GCSE, AS or A Level C I e o have to ork rom home exams in 2021 because of the eff ects of the coronavirus. ur hat s sure to be a bus eek ast Wales’s Educati on Minister Kirsty Williams revealed that the eek he aske t o o h s top a es om decision to scrap the exams was made for the wellbeing of pupils Cumm s a ee Ca to res a th s eek he must ma a e and to ensure fairness, as students will have spent diff erent the fi nal Brexit negoti ati ons with the European Union. amounts of ti me in school or college during the pandemic. I stea stu e ts omp ete assessme ts the assroom which will be externally set and marked. r me ster or s oh so s spokesma sa there ere o PRIZE FOR plans for England to follow Wales, despite calls from teachers’ iStock unions. Exams are sti ll set to go ahead in Northern Ireland, too. In Scotland, Nati onal 5 exams (the equivalent of GCSEs) have ANTI-BULLYING KidsRights bee rep a e b ourse ork a tea her assessme ts but Higher exams will sti ll take place. APP DEVELOPER FIRST NEWS needs you! One month ago, we launched the #HelpingTheUKGrow SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Sadat Rahman from Bangladesh challenge to get everyone planti ng – and as lockdown has been awarded the Internati onal Children’s Peace Prize conti nues, you sti ll have plenty of ti me to join in! for his home-made anti -bullying app. ou have to o s p a t someth as a s mbo o hope a at s C ber ee s app he ps puts those ho use t tou h a ro th or our uture It m ht be a b t h but o t et with a team of young people, including Rahman, who then work that stop you! Now is the perfect ti me to plant bulbs for the th o a po e a so a orkers to he p tee s too s are or spr or to tr ro someth rom a ru t p p or a embarrasse to report a ts o berbu a ber r me avocado stone. Whatever you try, upload your planti ng pics It also gives helpful ti ps about how to stay safe online. at fi rst.news/HelpingTheUKGrow The prize comes with a fund of €100,000 (£89,740), which I ou re ook or someth e to o ve t a o e o to ar s urther eve op the C ber ee s app hope ever o e vo ve share the r photos a v eos a The Internati onal Children’s Peace Prize is an annual prize run ha e e someo e e se to o the moveme t us the hashta by the KidsRights Foundati on, and past winners include Malala #HelpingTheUKGrow (please be aware of age restricti ons on social media). Yousafzai and Swedish climate acti vist Greta Thunberg. 6. HOME NEWS FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020
G e tt y SCOTLAND MORECAMBE Ancient ammuniti on Green scheme Amateur archaeologists have orther vers o o the e discovered a hoard of ammuniti on Project is set to regenerate the more tha 250 ears o he 2 5 seas e to o ore ambe 25 musket balls were found alongside m o a be ou to u e gold and silver butt ons and coins near p a s u t o the s te o a ormer the shores o o h a amh It s swimming pool called Bubbles, the thought they arrived by boat in 1746 new centre will be a year-round a ere se t to o e r e Char e desti nati on appealing to every age. to help his army fi ght government It is expected to att ract a million or es o ever the arr ve t o v s tors a reate ma obs It weeks aft er the Jacobites were ou have e v ro me ta a
defeated at the Batt le of Culloden G e tt y social benefi ts, and bring money a ere h e a a stea into the area aft er this pandemic. STAFFORDSHIRE LEICESTER Christmas queues Shoppers searching for Christmas trees
G e tt y caused huge traffi c jams outside a garden centre in Leicester. The eff ect o C I o k o s a the prospe t of a very diff erent Christmas Day have r ve peop e to ook or some ear Chr stmas heer ar e e tres have remained open during lockdown, but the are o suppose to se essenti als. For some, a Christmas tree in November is clearly an essenti al! EAST SUSSEX
Disney defendants Lawyers in Stoke-on-Trent were surpr se to s over that some ass artoo hara ters ere ue to arr ve ourt ke ouse Donald Duck and Buzz Lightyear were G e tt y some o the ames that appeare o a list of defendants to face the judge. Rubik’s results ha k u the a mate avour tes Chr s s rom ast oath as hadn’t really turned to a life of crime! a er at the ub k s Cube or he r ames ha bee use to test a Cup. The 18-year-old won gold in the upgrade to a computer system and Re-scramble event. Given a solved shou have bee e ete be ore the cube, competi tors have to match one ourtroom sts ere pub she so that has bee ra om s ramb e s he u e to appear ere Capta It’s not easy, as there are 43 quinti llion ook a Crue a e – at east possible combinati ons (that’s 43 you might expect those two to be o o e b eroes Chr s took in trouble with the law! just 17.57 seconds to solve it! PEMBROKESHIRE COAST WILTSHIRE Windfarm for Wales Road tunnel approved
Near 0 000 homes a es ou be G e tt y A new dual carriageway tunnel near the supplied with electricity from a fl oati ng famous Stonehenge monument has been arm he rebus pro e t ou he p given the go-ahead by the Government. meet Welsh climate targets by supplying The Nati onal Trust and some local re e ab e po er eve to te turb es res e ts are avour as t shou constructed around 28 miles (45km) off reduce traffi c jams on the A303. Others, the oast o embrokesh re ou prov e including environmental campaigners and e e tr t v a a u ersea ab e embers archaeologists, are against the two-mile
G e tt y of the public are being asked for their 3 2km roa It s a me that up to ha op o s over the e t mo th a m o bur e arte a ts ou be ost 7. BIG NEWS FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 NEW SPEEDING VACCINE YOUTH CLIMATE ON THE HOPE SUMMIT 2020 RISE A NEW study by road safety charity Brake has revealed that SCHOOLS UNITE drivers are travelling at fi ve ti mes the speed limit on some G e tt y ONLINE FOR CLIMATE roads, and almost a fi ft h of DISCOVERY AND ACTION iStock drivers have admitt ed to going over 100mph. THERE’S more good news when by Youth Climate Summit Ambassador Aardarsh, 16 he top spee r ve as 0mph it comes to fi ghti ng COVID-19 in Notti nghamshire and the highest – a new vaccine has been THE Youth Climate Summit (9-13 November 2020) spee r ve over the m t s 52mph created that’s 95% eff ecti ve. was one of the most engaging, and most important, a 30mph o e o o ompa o er a arr e experiences I’ve ever had! It was an online week he har t a so s overe out tr a s o the r va e o 30 000 where thousands of UK schools came together for a other stu o more tha people, with half being given two a week of climate learning and discovery, featuring 2,000 drivers that 18% admitt ed oses o the va e our eeks 163 sessions from 90 organisati ons. to driving over 100 mph on public apart, and the rest having dummy It drilled home what we can actually do, from supporti ng eco-friendly products in roads. Meanwhile, fi gures from the injecti ons. The company claim the supermarkets, to picking up litt er from the beach, to getti ng schools signing up to epartme t or ra sport sho e vaccine is protecti ng 94.5% of the the et s o Zero campaign, pledging to be carbon zero by 2030. that the umber o eaths a peop e ho ve ha t One personal highlight was taking part in the Careers Conversati ons these serious accidents caused by speeding o er a e pe ts to have 20 interviews opened my eyes to seemingly endless future possibiliti es. We, as drivers has gone up by 23% in 12 m o oses ava ab e mer a young people have the power to make our world, no matt er the career we mo ths here ere 2 5 ata a a hopes to have up to o e b o hoose more susta ab e 535 ser ous a e ts re or e ast oses ava ab e or use arou the I worked with other Youth Ambassadors to refl ect on the issues that had come year in which going over the speed world. The UK has ordered fi ve million up during the Summit. During the Closing Finale, I was part of the team presenti ng m t as a o tr butor a tor It oses o the va e h h shou be these to a pa e o e v ro me ta e perts he au e e vote h h o es to take was its highest level in seven years. available from spring 2021. forward to business, and I will be working with other ambassadors to do this at Ministers are being urged to give Poll of the Week o ou ee more business events following the Summit. speeding drivers longer bans and positi ve that the pandemic will end? The Youth Climate Summit embodied our higher fi nes. o to fi rst.news/polls hopes to see urgent changes in business and laws to make our world more sustainable. With the atti tude, commitment and ingenuity of this next generati on, I have no doubt that a greener future is right on our doorstep!
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A SCHOOL in France has put up posters asking parents WHO’S TOP DOG? not to throw their children over the gates if they’re late! A NEW competi ti on is taking place in Hungary to fi nd the The principal of the Trillade world’s smartest dog. school in Avignon said that The Genius Dog Challenge aims to see which of the world’s six cleverest parents were throwing their dogs is able to best learn the names of new objects. All of the dogs children over the school gates if taking part in the competi ti on are border collies, which come from they arrived late and found them Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Brazil, Hungary and Florida. closed. Following the recent The fi rst part of the contest will see the dogs given one week to learn terror att acks in France, security the ames o s to s the that umber oub e to see the a iStock at schools has been ramped up. ear the ames o 2 to s Teachers in many schools are not One of the dogs taking part is two-year-old Gaia from Brazil, who allowed to leave classrooms once a rea k o s the ames o more tha 75 to s the gates have been locked. The challenge is part of a research project on language learning and processing in dogs by researchers at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. 8. WORLD NEWS FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 PERU USA VIETNAM President Trump won’t give up New trading group President Donald Trump has refused to admit that he lost the US electi on, despite Fift een countries, including China, the fact that Joe Biden secured 306 electoral college votes, many more than the 270 Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and G e tt y needed to win. Mr Trump claims that Mr Biden Australia, have agreed to become a cheated, even tweeti ng: “He won because the part of the Regional Comprehensive electi on was rigged.” Lawyers working for the Economic Partnership (RCEP) at a president have tried to fi ght the result, but their virtual summit hosted by Vietnam. claims have been thrown out by courts in several The RCEP is the largest free trade states due to a lack of evidence. However, agreement in the world, and will mean President Trump conti nues to claim that he won that the 15 countries involved will be Hat-trick of presidents the electi on. President-elect Biden has said that able to trade together much more Peru’s Congress (parliament) has voted Mr Trump’s refusal to accept the electi on result easily. The agreement has taken eight to remove President Martí n Vizcarra, is “embarrassing”, but that it is not “slowing years of work to create. Almost a third
aft er he was accused of bribery. The down” his work before he offi cially becomes G e tt y of all the world’s economic acti vity leader of Congress, Manuel Merino president on 20 January 2021. (things that involve money or the (above), was then made president, but exchange of products) will be covered huge protests broke out, during which by the new RCEP trade agreement. two protesters died. In response to the violence in the streets, Manuel Merino quit the job and called for “peace and unity”. Francisco Sagasti was then made Peru’s third president in a week. G e tt y ETHIOPIA Confl ict worsens Ethiopia may be on the brink of a civil war, aft er fi ghti ng between two groups got worse. Hundreds have NEW ZEALAND already died during fi ghti ng between the country’s government forces, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and the Tigray People’s Liberati on Front (TPLF). Both groups accuse each other of starti ng the fi ghti ng, but there has G e tt y been tension between them since Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018. Thousands have already fl ed into neighbouring Sudan. Abiy Ahmed GERMANY was awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending a 20-year Celebrati ng couch potatoes Masks back on confl ict between Ethiopia and Eritrea. A new advert from the German government With just one new case of COVID-19 in shows an elderly man looking back on the Auckland, New Zealand’s government winter of 2020. Talking to the camera, he has called for the city’s citi zens says: “The fate of this country lay in our to wear a mask when on public hands, so we mustered all our courage and transport, and to work from home
Bundesregierung/YouTube did what was expected of us, the only right where possible. The country has thing. We did nothing. Absolutely nothing.” very nearly stamped out all cases The elderly man in The advert is one of three, which all show of the disease twice before, and the advert looks back G e tt y people celebrati ng their laziness to stop says that the response is out of on the winter of 2020 the spread of the coronavirus. “an abundance of cauti on”. ` VINUKI Bakmeedeniya, aged 15, felt that under-18s in the UK were not being properly OUR listened to and represented, and that their rights were not being properly respected. She contacted Amnesty Internati onal to see what she could do. to work on,” Vinuki says. Her local group directed her to the Children’s Human Rights “Human rights for children are WORLD Network, which works exclusively on the rights of under-18s so interlinked. The fact children’s around the world. Vinuki has since joined the committ ee that rights aren’t respected in general is NAME: VINUKI steers the whole network, designing and delivering campaigns, why specifi c issues are so common competi ti ons, engagement with other young people and more – – whether that’s racism in schools, LIVES: UK taking a leading role on driving children’s rights forward in the UK. or child mental health, or climate She is currently working on online discussions change, or anything else. I want to see children respected as To fi nd out more, go to www.amnesty.org.uk/ tackling racism in educati on. humans who are enti tled to all the same rights as adults. Then childrensnetwork “I didn’t feel that one issue was enough we will see changes across many issues.” 9. ANIMAL NEWS FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 HAMISH MOVES HOUSE HAMISH, the fi rst polar bear to be born in the UK, has moved into his new home at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
The three-year-old bear would fi nd in their natural Park Wildlife Yorkshire travelled in a specially adapted habitat. It’s been designed lorry from Highland Wildlife to look like the bear’s Arcti c Park in Scotland, aft er spending habitat in the summer months his early years with his mother. and is the only place in England He is now sett ling into his new where you can see polar bears. home, before being introduced Hamish’s move is part of to a group of young male bears the European endangered already living at the park’s species programme. He will Project Polar reserve. live at the park unti l he reaches Project Polar is one of the adulthood and can be matched biggest polar bear reserves in with a female bear as part of the world, with lakes, caves a breeding programme run by and plants that the bears zoos across Europe. LOCKDOWN WORRIES WITH England in the middle of a month- long lockdown, wildlife parks and zoos are starti ng to worry about their futures and the animals they care for. Before the fi rst lockdown, Port Lympne Hotel and Reserve in Kent was in the process of rescuing three ex-circus lions from France and a family of Port Lympne Lympne Port brown bears from Andorra. The second lockdown in England has left staff worried that they won’t be able to aff ord to help these animals and are calling for donati ons to help. Managing director Tony Kelly said: “Not only are we fi ghti ng to feed our animals but we also want to be able to off er the lions Mojito, Timothy and Anthares, and the bears Julio, Enciam, Neu and their babies a permanent and safe home. However, without help and donati ons from the public we are struggling to fulfi l our desire to rescue these animals and feed those animals already under our care.” The new lockdown means that no-one can pay to visit the park unti l aft er the restricti ons are lift ed.
THE race is on to save a prehistoric fi sh that is so rare it BITESIZE NEWS was thought to be exti nct. Last month, fi sh biologist Andrei Togor was surprised but delighted to fi nd 12 asprete living in a small secti on of the Vâlsan river in Romania. The asprete is said to be one of the most endangered fi sh in the world. The species has survived since prehistoric ti mes but now it can only be found in this small secti on of river. 10. KIDVERSATION by Sky News and Sky Kids FYI presenter, Braydon FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020
First News has teamed up with show FYI and the to make a series of videos for you to watch at home or at school, called Kidversati on. Across the world, children are fi ghti ng for their right to a bett er life. It’s UNICEF’s World Children’s Day on 20 November, a day that marks the United Nati ons Conventi on on the Rights of the Child, an internati onal agreement to take care of children. The theme of this year’s World Children’s Day is climate change so, this week, Braydon meets Mya-Rose, who says the rights of children everywhere are under threat from the climate crisis.
BRAYDON MEETS Greenpeace
I’m Mya-Rose from Somerset in England, and I’ve MYA-ROSE been campaigning for BRAYDON: ur p a et s home to 2 2 MYA-ROSE: Yeah, I mean, I think it was acti on to protect the b o h re e have e a r hts a terrifying trip just because it really environment since I Rights to nutriti ous food, clean water, felt like I was seeing the climate crisis in was 11 years old. and a safe place to live. Now, though, all acti on. It was a really stark reminder of that is at risk… from hurricanes, droughts, just how connected everything in the fl ooding and wildfi res. The climate crisis or s threatens our health, our wellbeing, even BRAYDON: I k o th s mu h – oba and it feels like nobody’s even talking our very survival. While millions of us arm s ause b us huma s se about these ssues have bee tak part mate ha e harmful gases, like carbon dioxide, into BRAYDON: Mya-Rose’s message is that protests, Mya-Rose took her campaign the atmosphere. Those gases, from if you think climate change is just a even further… the Arcti c! She went all the things like power stati ons, factories and problem happening thousands of miles way to one of the planet’s ice caps, which cars, trap heat from the sun around our away, and we don’t really need to worry BRAYDON: So we’ve got to stop it, is melti ng because of global warming. planet, causing it to warm up. And the about it, then think again. She is taking haven’t we? MYA-ROSE: It feels like a real tragedy to most obvious eff ect is the melti ng of me to one of her favourite places… the MYA-ROSE: Yeah, absolutely. me because it’s such a beauti ful place, our e aps It mea s our o ea eve s Shapwick Heath Nati onal Nature Reserve BRAYDON: One of Mya-Rose’s idols with such amazing, unique wildlife, and are rising, fl ooding other countries and ear asto bur h s th s p a e so is the environmental acti vist Greta we’re destroying it, we’re melti ng it and aff ecti ng the world’s climate as the special to you? Thunberg. And, in February, they got we’re going to lose it forever before we temperature of the water changes. MYA-ROSE: Well, I’m a massive to share a stage at a Youth Strike for eve rea se hat e ha I th k be MYA-ROSE: I have a lot of family in b r at her a I a a s have bee the Climate event, here in the UK. on a ti ny ice fl oe like this and just fl oati ng Bangladesh, which is a country that’s As you can see, it’s amazing for birds. MYA-ROSE: It was literally one of the in the middle of a sea of slush has really been really, really badly aff ected by I’ve seen over half of the world’s bird coolest days of my life. I knew she was just reminded me how delicate the Arcti c climate change, especially fl ooding and species now but I sti ll love coming back coming to Bristol but I never expected is and all of the sea ice here. We’re past storms, and it was so weird to look at to the Somerset Levels to see what I can to et the ema ask me to speak o the point of a wake-up call. We’re past this ice melti ng on the top of the world see. The problem in the UK is that we’re stage with her. It was literally just like, the point of ignorance. We have to act and remember that was aff ecti ng people running out of amazing habitat like this oh my gosh, I’m going to meet Greta, now or we’re going to lose everything. back in Bangladesh where there are four because we’re building on it. But also like I was fan-girling a litt le bit. BRAYDON: So what did you learn from million climate change refugees in the because of climate change, we’re losing BRAYDON: Meeti ng Mya-Rose has really your trip to the Arcti c? Are you even capital at the moment. There’s extreme loads and loads of habitat. opened my eyes to the crisis that we’re more fearful for the future now? poverty, extreme drought and famine, BRAYDON: Does climate change aff ect facing from climate change. It’s all very the children in Somerset as well? well, governments promising to give us MYA-ROSE: Yeah, absolutely. If the sea rights as children. But, if they don’t even rises even slightly this enti re landscape try to tackle this climate crisis soon, all would be gone, which obviously would of our rights – like having a safe place to be terrible for the birds, but people are live, and even a healthy environment to at risk too. About six years ago in 2014 ro up – ou eas sappear there were terrible fl oods and people’s MYA-ROSE: It’s really diffi cult as children homes got swept away, their livestock to feel as though you’re being heard but ot s ept a a a t rea hurt a ot there are so many litt le things that you of people . And since then, fl oods have can do that help so much – whether it’s be ome more a more re u ar be ause riding your bike more, or recycling, or of climate change. It’s really damaging eati ng less meat. But, also, I think making people’s lives, basically. It’s not just these sure that our vo e as a ou perso other ou tr es a ross the or that are is heard, making sure that you’re going being aff ected. It’s happening right here, to protests and signing peti ti ons. It’s so right now, in the UK. mporta t at the mome t
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a box. Have a chat about what you’ve put in the box iStock a cloud – what do you think the cloud looks like? poses’ or ‘change cloud’ (left). and why it makes you happy! If you’re having a rough Is it making any noises? What does it feel like? day, revisit the box and remind yourself of happier times. You could even cut out a paper cloud, and write and draw on it together. Try to remember that Interested? Find out more at FIND MORE ACTIVITIES LIKE THIS ONE, TO HELP YOU LEARN while some clouds may take their time, all www.futurelearn.com/courses/ THROUGH PLAY, AT PLAYLIST.LEGOFOUNDATION.COM clouds pass eventually! coping-with-changes 13. SCIENCE NEWS FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 FLYING UK LEADS ON FIN iStock Gett y Gett
MARINE THE fossil of a pterosaur that fl ew over the UK millions of years ago has been discovered in a drawer. CONSERVATION The endangered rockhopper penguin u e o m ou e oss r me s u e mo sever A BRITISH Overseas Territory, Tristan da Cunha, has created the largest marine sanctuary in the Atlanti c. shark fi n spines. He saw what he It’s part of the Government’s Blue Belt Programme, which most remote inhabited island on Earth. It is one of four islands recognised as the ti p of a beak, and promotes the protecti on of marine life in Briti sh overseas that make up the territory. realised it was a pterosaur fossil. The lands. Now an area three ti mes the size of Britain has become The Royal Society for the Protecti on of Birds, which was pieces had been wrongly identi fi ed what is called a “no-take zone.” In 627,247km2 rou e a partner in the programme, describes the area as one of many years ago, when people knew territory of Tristan da Cunha, fi shing and any other acti viti es the richest in the world, packed above and below the water much less about prehistoric creatures. where animal or plant life are removed are now banned. It will with life. Endangered albatrosses, rockhopper penguins, blue Two specimens are related to known help safeguard millions of seabirds, as well as whales, sharks sharks and beaked whales are all found there and will now pterosaurs, but one is thought to be and seals. It will also benefi t biodiversity, food producti on and be protected. completely new. It was an exciti ng fi nd carbon storage. The Blue Belt Programme has already protected 1% of the for a scienti st who has been an avid The main island, where only 245 people live, calls itself the world’s oceans, the Prime Minister’s Offi ce said. fossil collector since he was a child.
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IMMUNE cells learn how to combat infecti on in the gut, before travelling through the body to protect the brain, a study has found. A new study reported in science They found that if mice had no microbes our N ure s ou mmu e e r u e o ve em cells learn how to att ack dangerous the meninges either. When bacteria invaders in the gut (intesti nes) fi rst. were introduced to the intesti nes of the They then move up to the outside of mice, they then appeared in the layers the brain via the bloodstream. The brain outside the brain too. This provided is vulnerable to infecti on by viruses strong evidence that there was a link, A subscripti on to and bacteria, so an army of immune and suggested the cells ‘learn’ their role. First News makes a cells produce anti bodies to fi ght The scienti sts also managed to capture brilliant Christmas gift , infecti on. But how do they know microscopic images of an att ack in the what is dangerous to the brain? me es o m e b e s ou feeding their curiosity Scienti sts, led by immunologist Menna have done their training in the gut. and engaging them in Clatworthy, discovered cells in the Another immunologist, Matt hew the world around them. ree ou er ers o e br e Hepworth, said: “The study has e me es re usu ou rewritt en what we know about these the gut. They wondered if there was a plasma cells and how they play a criti cal FIRSTNEWS.CO.UK/CHRISTMAS link and carried out some experiments. role in keeping our brain healthy.” 14. ENTERTAINMENT FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 BREAKFAST SHOW SECRETS WHAT really goes on behind the scenes at your favourite breakfast show First ews went behind the scenes at Capital reakfast with Roman Kemp, Sonny Jay and Siân Welby to fi nd out more…
4:1 am bee us I Sonny: I e u rou 5 m mer s o o o e I ve o o o s u oo b bu e mer e so I e em ou be ore m s e re eree s b e or I head off to work. e oo b ur m Si n: I usu e u 30 m I o : 0am – Si n’s Secret Sound b o s o re e I m ome Si n: s e re ou re or s e re ou s s ere e e r – ever rom o our s e ers us om o b s u s I o eve ve o or in embarrassment, contestants must answer fi ve ve o uess e s r e o se rubber e b I s ever questi ons of increasing diffi culty as they att empt to I ve o o s se re so orm sou bu e s e ers m e o e e e o eo e ve ever m e e bo s o o re e o it to the elite, but we never menti on their names… Roman: I er e u 8:00am – Celebrity uest Interview Sonny: I s s e er r s e o o us o I e u so e Roman: o our b e ebr Anne Hegerty from e se that I just have to pick up the fi rst Si n’s secret ues s ere err e e e 9:00am – It’s all about the listeners o es I see sound! from Litt le Mix, who talked to us about their new Roman: e bes s e e o s e o : 0am bum e em e ve bee erv e our s e ers ever s e r more ever Sonny: As it’s so early, it’s sti ll completely dark when mos ues s v oom bv ous e r er ues s s bee o our o be r o our s e ers we get into the offi ce. I’m always the fi rst one in… were in the studio – someti mes routi nes and to help off er a sense of normality and Si n: e s me bv ous om s e s o e I e ro e o o some es sm u or s bo s s our s e ers to get in… crazy stuff in the studio when e us oo – e m e us u so mu ever Roman: We start off the morning doing a producti on guests are in. Once Niall Horan e so ve u e o e o er u meeti ng with our team of radio and digital producers. tatt ooed “Nice To Meet Ya” e s e ers e vo ve oo o e ore e o o r I so ve o se re m o m e o our r Sonny threatened to unfollow me on Instagram. Aft er Leigh-Anne from questi ons for Roman’s Mega Hard Super Global’s Make Some Noise. Ed Litt le Mix, via Zoom! mu eb e e oo o s e er vo e o u our u Sheeran’s tatt ooed me too. some o our ove s e ers o e e Sonny: s oes me e e o see e s e u e b e me 00 of their houses. Litt le Mix’s Jade gave us a tour Sonny: Not quite 100%, Roman… and Shawn Mendes spoke to us from 10:00am – The end of the show m be o s m ome Roman: We hand over to Will Manning, 8:15am – Breakfast ti me! o s o rom 0 m – m e o or os s o Si n: We prett y much have the same thing debrief. Someti mes we discuss work, or someti mes every day. I either get an omelett e or a peanut we like to blow off some steam from the show and butt er bagel and a coff ee. use b o m em e re o or r Si n: e oo e b s or es o e Roman: I go for either some bran fl akes with people around the studio, so someti mes I wait for my e b e es o see s re mo m or s r mb e e s o o s u o u e m m e e rr ou s e er s u o and what’s going to be on our listeners’ ti melines. defi nitely has the most specifi c breakfast! um ou er o s re er :00am – Wake- p Pun Sonny: I either get porridge… or someti mes I get Si n: We also love pranking everyone by stuffi ng Si n: e e u u s br u e e Marmite on toast, two sausages and a coff ee. anything we can fi nd in people’s bags, the messier the our s e ers vo ve e oose some e ou o r s e e sur r se re rom e bett er. We take handfuls of confetti and pop them in ‘Celebriti es and Birthdays’ and then our listeners mes o ru s e u s rs No o er s o s o our o e ues b s o o e s ere se e r u s e e e er any of our sister stati ons at Global get it, so I hope Sonny: Aft er the show, I go to my I e :00am – Sonny Side p o e o e o er bre s s o rese ers re s training. I train fi ve days a week at Alexandra Palace. Sonny: s s m vour e r o e s o I e o Once we got these chorizo handmade sausage rolls… I re e o ou e o er e I o share my happiest news story of the day. Someti mes 8: 0am – Roman’s Mega Hard Super ui o r I oo e m b or m s es o I laugh so hard I can’t even read them. My favourite Roman: During this secti on I invite listeners to take to discover someone had stuff ed a Marvin s or s ere ere s oo b m o e ou es u o e r o o vo er s Humes JLS doll in there. Weird…
Hear Roman Kemp, Si n Welby and Sonny ay on Capital reakfast, weekdays from am – 10am 15. ENTERTAINMENT FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 THIS WEEK Busted star Matt OF THE WEEK 1 Jay-Willis will play PICS THIS December, a brand-new exhibiti on Bob Cratchit in the new West End producti on of at the Natural History Museum will look A Christmas Carol. He’ll at the fantasti c beasts found in nature be joined by Jacqueline and on screen. Jossa making her West The exhibiti on will look at the links between End debut as Emily. The producti on will run from real creatures and the mythical creatures 7 December – 2 January at the Dominion Theatre. found in the Wizarding World created by JK Rowling. What does an Erumpent (pictured
A brand-new Sky below) have in common with endangered 2 series of The species? And what skill does a Galápagos Aardman/ Epic Adventures iguana share with an Occamy? of Morph has All these questi ons and more will be started on Sky answered in the magical partnership between Kids. Morph the Natural History Museum, Warner Bros
and Chas reunite with some friends aft er 40 years Museum History of the Natural Trustees Consumer Products and the BBC Studios apart and, for the very fi rst ti me, viewers will see Natural History Unit. To visit the exhibiti on, Morph leave his home and venture out into the big you must have a pre-booked ti cket. wide world! Fantasti c Beasts: The Wonder of Nature opens on 9 December. For more informati on and for ti ckets, visitwww.nhm.ac.uk
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I’M A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! Museum History of the Natural Trustees Photo courtesy of is back, hurrah! The new celebs have already Warner Bros pictures entered the castle, but who are they? Here’s a quick lowdown on the new crew. TV personality Shane Richie has been Former Strictly 1 2 on our screens for Come Dancing star TV presenter Aft er starring in Coronati on Streetfor years. He says he’ll try AJ Pritchard is a huge Vernon Kay signed up his hand at anything fan of the show and for the show because his 30 years, actor Beverley Callard quit the soap this in the camp, but isn’t is looking forward to daughters love it. He’s looking forward to people seeing what scared of being trapped year and decided it was ti me for a new challenge. using the toilet! he is like beneath underwater and says he the sequins! can get a bit emoti onal She’s scared of ghosts 9 at ti mes, so may and insects! 9 Hollie Arnold MBE is cry! 1 a gold medal-winning 4 10 Paralympian. She’s looking forward to giving camp cooking a try, but admits she can 2 be a bit grumpy when Olympian Mo Farah 8 says he is scared of she is hungry! everything that moves! He’s looking forward to the challenges in the 10 castle and hopes his Radio 1 DJ determinati on will help Soap star Jessica Giovanna Fletcher Jordan North says he him win meals. Plummer hopes her is an author, blogger is scared of everything, camping experience 8 4 and the wife of Tom especially mess. He as a kid will help her Journalist Victoria Fletcher! She’s wanted thinks he’ll be the on the show. She is Derbyshire decided to to be on the show camp cleaner and will dreading taking part in do the show to challenge for a long ti me. Her mostly miss his challenges but is ready herself aft er beati ng biggest fear is phone! Tune in to I’m A Celebrity… to face her fears! breast cancer. She’s heights. Get Me Out of Here! on ITV1 frightened of spiders and enclosed spaces! 16. BIG INTERVIEW by Serena Lacey FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 What can you tell us about Master Moley Moley becomes the keeper of a and what made you want to get involved magical book – what would you like I was prett y taken with the concept. I mean, it’s a magic book to help you with quite unique. I can’t really fi gure out why it hasn’t The ability to get dressed instantly would be been done before actually. You know moles live fabulous, because none of us like brushing our teeth everywhere, they’re under every conti nent on Earth, and brushing our hair and getti ng washed. I think to so Mole Town is a place that we could be stood on be able to instantly be ready to go out would be a right now! I think there are about 42 diff erent species brilliant idea. Also preparing meals as well. You know of moles and as I said, they live under every conti nent we all get hungry, but I think now and again it would on Earth, so they’re a prett y diverse creature. be great to just be able to go: “Okay, prepare me some dinner,” and instantly it’s there, ready for What’s your character like you to eat. The ulti mate ready meal. Well, Master Moley is a mole who lacks confi dence slightly and he’s a litt le bit bumbling too. He’s a real G e tt y Moley gets an invitati on to Windsor fun character to play. The fi rst episode that we see Castle too, so what’s the fanciest is this special episode, and it introduces us to his invitati on you’ve ever received? character and how he becomes the keeper of The I was once invited to Windsor Castle too! It Mysti cal Magical Manual, which is a key part was to celebrate fi lm a few years ago, but I wasn’t of this story and also stories beyond that. able to go because I was working on a project in America. It was an invitati on from the Queen and Master Moley was created by “I’VE ALWAYS I was devastated I couldn’t go, because the Queen is author ames Reatchlous, who someone I’ve always wanted to meet actually. I have
made up stories to tell his kids. Did been to Buckingham Palace, though. It was even
you ever make up stories for your kids grander than you could imagine. I mean, they were
I used to read a lot of stories to my kids. They were WANTED the best sandwiches I’ve ever had; honestly, it was “ mainly scripts that I was trying to learn, but I rarely “ amazing. Sat by the lake in the back garden at the used to make up stories, unlike James did with palace, having sandwiches and cream Master Moley. That’s really come from his bedti me TO MEET tea was an experience to remember. stories to his children, which I think is fantasti c. It gives it such a lovely feel.
The show has an ama ing cast, but what’s
THE QUEEN! oomerang it like recording an animati on, and did you get to work together THE brilliant Warwick Davis plays We did record together someti mes. I recorded with Master Moley in the brand-new festi ve Gemma Arterton, who plays Mona Lisa, Master animati on Master Moley y Royal Moley’s love interest in the story. As for everyone Invitati on. First Newscaught up with the else, we recorded separately. For the new series actor for a oom chat about the show. that we are now recording at the moment, I record here in my recording studio at home. It’s very The story begins when Moley remote and very lonely actually. steals a rose from the ueen’s garden. You can go to work in your pyjamas! Have you ever stolen anything Do you and your family have That’s the key, isn’t it? Yeah, you can just rock up I do have a couple of souvenir props from fi lm sets. any favourite festi ve fi lms that before you start, you don’t even have to brush your I don’t know whether I was given them; I hope I was you always watch given them! I have the wand I used in the fi lm Willow, hair! Well, actually you do because you talk with the I try to avoid thinking about Christmas unti l the very I have a secti on of the Death Star from Return of the director via Zoom and the engineer at the last minute, because I’m not a big fan of Christmas Jedi and I have a Gringott s galleon from Harry Pott er. studio as well, so everyone sees you! shopping! As far as Christmas movies go, every year My daughter was given that by one of the producers. we’ll watch The Grinch with Jim Carrey. Another I’ve never stolen anything, though! favourite of ours is Nati onal Lampoon’s Christmas Vacati on with Chevy Chase. I was in a Christmas movie called Get Santa with Jim Broadbent, so that’s now on our Christmas movie list, which is exciti ng.
oomerang What’s on your Christmas list this year I want for very litt le in life, just the love of my family and the people around me, and everyone to be happy. As far as kind of gadgets and gizmos, I have everything I need at the moment. Maybe some socks; I do get holey socks aft er a while because I don’t wear slippers, so some new socks would be nice! oomerang Catch Master Moley By Royal Invitati on on 8 ovember at 9am on oomerang
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First ews is teaming up with former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan for a spectacular panto to watch online at school or at home. Since 2020 has been, quite frankly, rubbish, we couldn’t have Christmas without panto, could we? And, as we are heading into December, panto gives us something to laugh about. Over to Peter… BEHIND THE SCENES… OF MAKING A FILM WHE you have an idea to do something, it’s easy to give up because it seems too hard and complicated. When I decided to try to make a pantomime fi lm in my back garden, I ever m e ou e u be s o em s rou e ou r s e s oes or u e vours e br ve bu I ere s more o I our e re u res more us ou o eve ou ve o e use o ers o o ou When you shoot a fi lm, a lot of eff ort goes into making sure everyone ru be eves e r ro e s m or – o us e ors bu e eo e o or e be e s e es e mer sou e s e os ume m ers s e er es ers mus s who help to put it all together. We are in post-producti on now, where e ure sou e ors o e mus e r me be ver away to make sure the fi lm looks and sounds the best it can. Soon the fi lm will be seen by many students in schools. And with our o o u o our om me v eos ou ve o m up your own story to perform to family and friends, or even fi lm it on sm r o e be s r our o mov e e e s e r e om me s o e ver m em s rom 5 e ember o se em s rom 11 December. You can also get ti ckets to see it online as part of your school’s Christmas celebrati ons. There’s a FirstNews discount for schools at schools.fi rstnews.co.uk/ panto-online and check out the workshops to create your own panto. ADVENT WHAT’S IN THE SHOPS? CALENDARS SMIGGLE ADVENT LEGO HARRY POTTER BRAINBOX CALENDAR ADVENT CALENDAR CHRISTMAS £18.00 LEGO.COM £24.99 ADVENT CALENDAR GAME SMIGGLE e ebr e r s m s e r s re m e ve e r or e Harry Pott er ve JOHN LEWIS £10.00 has 25 days of limited-editi on e r e e o e 2 oors s r o r s m s s ve e r Smiggle stati onery surprises for a diff erent LEGO Harry Pott er with a diff erence: it’s an Advent calendar, a ou o s over re s u e toy or fi gure! Recreate decorati on and a game all in one! Starti ng a rainbow pen, glitt er glue, e ess o r s on the fi rst, you can play o eboo e os o e m ve ures m o e r e e o s more u e s e es us e vour e r ers e s rov e including Harry, Ron o e erm o e festi ve cards FANTASTIC us m on a decorati ve e u b o s e e o s r SLIME CALENDAR carriage! AMAZON.CO.UK £21.98 e oor ever o reve 2 sur r se I o s NATIVITY 3D ADVENT CALENDAR Behind each door, you’ll fi nd a pot of slime, glitt er, accessories STANFORDS.CO.UK £14.99 or o so ou re e s r s m s e e o e m vo ve your own festi ve characters over Advent and help create your own 3D nati vity e re eer or scene. Includes stable, animals and fi gures. s o m All prices correct at ti me of printi ng. 22. BOOKS FirstNews Issue 753 20 – 26 November 2020 ati onal Literacy Trust’s YOUR READS! Virtual School Library FIRE BURN, TAKE the wheel with David Baddiel! u or o e ee e r u CAULDRON oo br r s v e reviewed by v s re omme e re s re Mati lda Stone, r e e o o e or b BUBBLE aged eight Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quenti n Blake or e b Ne m us r e b PAUL COOKSON r s e I e s oem boo be use I re o e m or o umb Halloween. There are lovely illustrati ons that make o b r bso us r e b our bo es s ver so e oems emse ves re so esse very magical and enchanti ng. e o e br r o s e o e I ove e ou s e o e boo s oo s o s me o e or urbo ser witchy, like a spell book. Each poem is very diff erent, u oboo ever ee or o ee s s e s be s r some re ver u or e us ve v eo bou vour e oem s e es oo boo s s o s o m e u e v s s or es or re s over mes s m r o e e mes e re e boo s m mumm s e s o ree vour e re s boo s I’d imagine that making the spells and the sounds is really disgusti ng! There is also s virtualschoollibrary.org.uk o a very famous poem that was writt en by William Shakespeare. My sister learnt it off fi nd out more. b e r re e o er ss s oo I s boo ou m e ove rese o ve o r e around Halloween ti me or if they want to read something spooky.
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CHRISTMAS POTHOLES melissanewmantv/Facebook A CREATIVE man decided to highlight the problem of local potholes by planti ng Christmas trees in them! The incredible scene was fi lmed from two diff erent angles by Kevin Marti n from Massachusett s, USA, was sick of getti ng fellow whale watchers fl at tyres due to holes in the road. He had complained before but nothing had been done to fi x them. In a rather jolly protest, Kevin bought some soil and small Christmas trees, then set about planti ng them in all the dangerous holes. In a since-deleted Facebook post, North Att leboro Police Dept shared images of the stunt and said: “Looks like someone
is getti ng into the Christmas spirit early… guess that is one way PD/Facebook leboro N Att to fi ll potholes?” The Christmassy statement worked, though, as the potholes were fi lled properly later that day. TWO whale watchers had a lucky escape when a humpback whale emerged from under their kayak. WHY DID THE FARMER WHAT DO YOU Many people were in the water to see the whale, including Julie SUBMITTED SHOUT AT THE GRAPE? CALL A GIRL WHO McSorley and Liz Cott riel in their yellow kayak. From the fuzzy , footage, it looks like the kayak and even the kayakers get swallowed. BY NOOR BECAUSE IT WAS BEING WAS BORN ON THE However, the whale, who was trying to get a mouthful of fi sh, AGED 10 UN-RAISIN-ABLE! BEACH? SANDY! knocked the kayak and the two women into the water. Incredibly, they were both unharmed, surfacing seconds later SHARE YOUR JOKES WITH US AT [email protected] and being pulled to safety by nearby whale watchers.
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TODAY (20 November) is World Children’s Day, an YOU/YOUR internati onal day of acti on for children, by children. It’s a day when the world celebrates children’s voices and the power we JUNIOR SCHOOL IS UP TO have to change the world. JOURNALIST r e o e us o I’ve been passionate about environmental issues for as long as I can ou ve bee u o e ve remember. But it is only recently that I realised my voice could be heard you been getti ng creati ve? Been and that I could make a diff erence. for a great day out? How has the When I spend ti me in nature, I feel centred, at peace and connected coronavirus aff ected your school, to the planet. I believe we owe it to future generati ons to protect and friends and family? Why not preserve these wonders. share your experiences with My love for nature comes with an increasing sense of dread, one felt rs Ne s readers? by children all around the world. The climate crisis threatens our futures: e ur or s e reme e er eve s s s ers re o m our re or more frequent and have oft en catastrophic consequences for children. (including pictures) to The pandemic has taught us that if governments can act so yournews@fi rstnews.co.uk quickly on coronavirus, why can’t they act on climate change Don’t forget to include your with the same urgency? name and age (and your school’s That is the change I would like to see in the world, and I believe that name and address for school young people are so important to the world and climate acti on; we bring news reports). By writi ng in, a fresh energy, insight, truth and honesty to the conversati on. you give consent to rs Ne s We care about fi ghti ng climate change because the stakes couldn’t be printi ng details and photographs Eddie higher for us; our very futures hang in the balance, as does the future of those involved in the report. of the natural world we love. We are the least responsible for climate change, and yet our lives will be the most aff ected by its consequences. We deserve a seat at the table. Right now, on this momentous day for children, we need to take
iStock acti on and make climate unity a reality. Becoming a climate acti vist is actually really easy – you can ask your teacher to join UNICEF UK’s OutRight campaign, send a lett er to your MP (Member of Parliament) Eddie grew up in a rural area by the or s m o o ers bou sea, and says he loves the “power and climate change, unity, and your peace of the waves” opinions – make your voice heard! WHAT IS OUTRIGHT? OutRight is UNICEF UK’s youth campaign that gives you the chance to speak out about children’s rights UNICEF/Dejongh on World Children’s Day. This year the campaign will focus on climate change and give children and young people the chance to learn about how the climate crisis will aff ect their futures. By signing up to UNICEF UK’s OutRight campaign, you can make real change from the ti ps of your fi ngers! You’ll receive acti viti es and resources for you to do at home, and be kept up to date regularly with how the campaign is going.
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Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes leads Sebasti an Vett el’s Ferrari during the Briti sh driver’s victory at the SPORT IN Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul NUMBERS games unbeaten in e ome s u er League is Chelsea’s 27 re b e I oo e e ru es b o u r 20 was coming to an end, as they were G e tt y
losing 1-0 against Arsenal Women. G e tt y However, a bizarre own goal from the Gunners’ Lott e Wubben-Moy in extra ti me saw the match end in a draw. G e tt y THE PERFECT FORMULA LEWIS Hamilton has been dominati ng Formula One in 2020 – and his success at the Turkish Grand Prix now sees him crowned as the sport’s most successful driver. v re o e o e 3 r es s e r seeme Schumacher’s record. The Briti sh driver has won more races e e s ou o s s o v or es o ever e v or es – so s more o es appalling weather and starti ng sixth on the grid meant that podium fi nishes and points than any other driver. s o us o s u r ee m e e r Aft er the race, Lewis said that when he was young, he loved me s e slippery, creati ng problems for the two Red Bull drivers, who bu ou see o e re rese e m e uro e r could have won the race. Max Verstappen and Alex Albon both let it put him off , and said that children today should know Championships in s u ru e r es o ever m o s e m m e e be r b ers oo ou re e our o 11 Bulgaria took Great Valtt eri Bott as, was the only one who could aff ect the ti tle or o ers o o o e s I us s re m s b s ou Britain to the top of race, but he also spun – six ti mes. Valtt eri was lapped by oss b o e eo e e ou e er – ou or the table. The haul included six golds, Lewis, who fi nished fi rst to take the 2020 campaign with you can’t. There’s nothing you can’t do if you put the ti me and with Matt Walls collecti ng two in solo three races left . eff ort into it and, hopefully, you have the support around you events and Kati e Archibald triumphing This is Lewis’s seventh Formula 1 ti tle, equalling Michael e I o e o s r e s r o e e m ursu G e tt y MAJOR G e tt y
se o s ere s ve VICTORY! off the world record AFTER fi nishing as runner-up at the 2019 US Masters, or e 00m s or Dusti n Johnson went one bett er this year. 0.12 ourse bre s s ro e by Great Britain’s Dusti n Johnson sizes up The current world number one, Dusti n is no stranger to being the favourite, Adam Peaty. His ti me of 55.49 seconds his next shot on his way v bee e e our m ors e s or s our b es our me s u r be e rev ous s es to a remarkable victory at the end of the third round. Luck hasn’t always been on the American’s side, ti me, set 11 years ago. A short course though. Amazingly, he’d only achieved one major championship win, at the eve es e 25m oo e 20 6 e be ore s e r s s ers 00m o ourse bre s s ro e or Dusti n started the fourth and fi nal day four shots ahead, but aft er just fi ve record is held by… Adam Peaty! holes, his lead had fallen to one. Thankfully, he didn’t let the pressure aff ect his game and an impressive series of birdies helped him fi nish 20 shots under par – ISL
G e tt y re or bre o s ore or e s ers Following traditi on, Dusti n was helped o e er s ree e b e rev ous m o er oo s er ou re e 20 s s e u r form this year, putti ng his ball in the water Tiger Woods three ti mes on one hole for a career-worst se u e bo e seve over r