Issue 3 Volume Five KING’S EYE ON THE WORLD 00 14th November 2014 Editors: Adam Phoenix- Preston Ted Felix Carter Journalists: Alistair Smellie Max Wood Dylan Riley- McNiece Jasmine Denton CURRENT AFFAIRS ENRICHMENT………………READ ALL ABOUT IT! Eve Jawara Saffron Nathan In this issue, Remembrance and thinking of others are Saffie Mehra connections between this week’s stories. Many war heroes have been remembered in Remembrance Day Jack Ramsbottom this week. Meanwhile, Children in Need encourages Oliver Roberts us to remember the needy and disadvantaged. We Robert Littler also think about people who have been jailed needlessly and hope that we inspire our readers to spread the word and do something about it. I hope you enjoy our amazing, fantastic, incredible newspaper. The poppy appeal Jack Ramsbottom SHAR The Poppy Appeal was started so we could remember the great men who gave their lives so we could live ours the way we do. I personally think this is great because it helps us to remember and think about those who gave their lives. All profits are given to veterans and men and women who are in need of it. This was started in 1921, inspired by a poem. I like it because I had a great granddad who died at thirty in World War One. I think the minute’s silence is a good idea and we all have to do it. I have done it three times in different places. The poppy that people wear has made £40 million for the charity in the UK. It was made so people have something to show they have supported the charity. I think it is bad that some people will use the same poppy because they are cheating because they haven’t supported the charity this year. There has been a single released this year in aid of the Poppy Appeal. It’s a cover of No Man’s Land written by a Scottish man in 1975 and reflects on a young man who died in the war. I think this is good because it will help raise money and awareness when it’s played. There is a new thing called a Poppy Selfie. This is where you get as many people as you can and take a selfie whilst wearing a poppy and share it on any social network you can. This is good for wearing awareness as you are meant to write why you’re doing it so people know about it. It takes 350 000 people each year who give up their time for the Poppy Appeal. They will be selling poppies, making them, or organising places to put them and things like that. These people will give up to two hours of their time per day. The Poppy Appeal is the Royal British Legion’s biggest project and raises them more in a month then they will in the rest of the year. Tower poppies going on tour Jasmine Denton ShAR David Cameron intervenes at the poppies in the Tower of London, making the key sections stay for an extra-three weeks! The two sections of the memorial will now remain at the Tower for an extra two and half weeks until the end of the November. The ‘weeping widow’ which is made up of thousands of ceramic poppies cascading out of the towers window and the’ Wave’ which rises over the causeway used by the public to enter the castle, will then go on tour and then settle at the Imperial War Museum. The Prime Minister states “a very short space of time becomes a much loved and respected monument." He also said “We want to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to witness it, and the government is providing money and working with charities to do so. By displaying parts of the installation around the country and then permanently in the Imperial War Museum, we have ensured that this poignant memorial will be saved for the nation.” The tour will last until the end of the centenary commemorations in 2018 and will be funded from two major donations from, the Backstage Trust and the Clore Duffield Foundation. £500,000 of funding from the Government raised from Libor fines on the banks will go towards the installing, storage and transport costs. The Tower has also agreed to floodlight the West Moat for extra hours each day so visitors can see the memorial from 4:30pm to 12am. The memorial, which has 888,246 poppies is now slowly starting to be dismantled. It started to be taken down on 12 November. Ebay has banned people selling the flowers on the auction site because the company believes in the “significance of each individual poppy as a memorial to an individual British military fatality." Jailed needlessly Saffron Nathan ShCM The head of a review into prison suicides has said that too many people are being jailed unnecessarily. Lord Harris said that resources were being weakened and leaving vulnerable inmates unsupervised. This has been said after the parents of a man who killed himself at a young offender’s institution criticised authorities. In February the government asked Labour peer Lord Harris to do a review on how to reduce suicides in custody. His findings are expected to be presented next summer. He thinks that prison authorities are preventing others from receiving the support they need by unnecessarily imprisoning some people. Lord Harris said: "The critical issue is why some prisoners are [in jail] in the first place. “Are there interventions that could have been done, could have saved the government money by stopping them ending up in the criminal justice system in the first place, or not necessarily ending up in prison? "Obviously there will always be a core of prisoners who do need to be in prison. But, if some of the others were not there, there would be more resources to make sure those individuals were supported and prison achieved its objectives in terms of rehabilitation." He says this after 21 year old Steven Davidson’s parents asked why authorities didn’t do more to protect him. Davidson killed himself while at Glen Parva Young Offenders’ Institution in 2013. Davidson was jailed after being found in possession of a knife, with which he had threatened to harm himself. He was told that when a bed became available he would be moved to a mental hospital but he killed himself in his cell in September 2013; he had been in the prison for three months. A staff member had failed to monitor him properly and was inadequately trained to help vulnerable people. His mother Lynda explained: "It was like 'he's just another lad who's been sent to prison'." She added: "Instead of looking at why he's been sent to prison and what he needed, it was like [the authorities said] 'There you go Steven - there's your cell - get on with it'." Davidson had not been moved to a safe cell, due to the fact that he was graded at “low risk” of self harm and suicide at prison. Davidson’s father said that the people who had assessed Davidson “weren’t trained in mental health”. Overall all in England and Wales the prison suicide rates have risen by 52% since 2011-12. They show that 87 inmates committed suicide in September 2014, but in September 2012, 57 did. A new kind of system needs to be created for people who need more mental health care so that they are at less risk. This will allow prison officials to concentrate on them instead of having a mix of prisoners who have different needs. Children in Need Eve Jawara, ShCI Children in Need is an annual fundraiser, organised by the BBC. It helps children all over the UK and in other parts of the world too. Their work is widely supported and millions of lives are changed because of them. On Children in Need Day every year, a television appeal show is held. Different celebrities join together to create a show to entertain, persuade, and emotionally touch the public sitting in their homes. This year, the show will be presented by Sir Terry Wogan, Tess Daly, Fearne Cotton, Nick Grimshaw, and Saturday’s singer, Rochelle Humes. A star performance from the legendary cartoon ‘Tom and Jerry’ will definitely be one of the highlights of the show. The cast of Eastenders are going to be in Albert Square with a special sketch solely for Children in Need. Appeal videos will be shown throughout the programme, with stories told by different celebrities, in different places, about different charities needing support. Many BBC shows will be participating with exclusive episodes in the show. Finally, a reunion for S Club 7 will take place on the appeal show. To top it all off, Gareth Malone (organiser of different choirs across the UK, including the Military Wives) is setting up the all-star choir to perform this year’s Children in Need song; a remake of the famous Avicii song, Wake Me Up. Malone said “The song is all about overcoming tough times, which is exactly what Children in Need do”. The all-star choir includes people such as Jo Brand, Bake-off presenter Mel Giedroyc, and Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel-Horwood. Performances from One Direction, Cheryl Fernandez- Versini, The Script, Susan Boyle, and Boyzone will also take place. One of the fundraisers for Children in Need was celebrities going BearFaced (having a photo shoot with no makeup on). Singer, Sophie Ellis-Bextor; actress, Olivia Colman; singer, Laura Mvula, and Saturday’s star and one of this year’s presenters for the appeal show, Rochelle Humes, all ditched the makeup for a paw print, and raised thousands for Children in Need.