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The NEWS Shed Issue No.11 www.literacyshedplus.com July 2-9, 2021 Is it a INSIDE THIS WEEK car? NATURE Is it a plane? It’s both! The AirCar making its successful flight (above) and in ground Fight to save the mode (right) Scottish wildcat Pictures: see page 3 Klein Vision GAMES Flying cars in air ‘by end of this decade’ Pokemon marks flying car has made a successful flight ›› Inventor makes between two airports in the central Euro- 25th anniversary pean country of Slovakia. see page 4 successful test flight The AirCar made a 35-minute flight from Nitra to Bratislava and its inventor, otor industry experts say flying Professsor Stefan Klein, then drove it off SPORT cars could be in operation within the runway and into the city’s streets. Mthe next 10 years. Prof Klein said his AirCar can fly 600 It means by the time children now in miles (1,000km) at a height of 8,000ft Chaos primary school are old enough to take (2,400 metres). their driving tests, cars could be zooming It is powered by a normal car’s petrol over overhead instead of clogging up roads. engine and can carry two people. It con- Michael Cole, the European boss of verts from being a car to an aircraft in Lions car company Hyundai, said: “We believe just over two minutes. it really is part of the future. The AirCar needs a runway to take off rugby “We think that by the latter part of this and land like a normal aeroplane, but decade certainly, urban air mobility will others being developed – like the one tour offer great opportunity to free up con- planned by Hyundai – could be capable gestion in cities.” of vertical take-off and landing, making see page 6 His comments come as a prototype them easier to use in towns and cities. 2 The NEWS Shed July 2-9, 2021 Stolen Picasso is found at last COMING painting by artist Pablo Picasso SOON has been found, nine years after Abeing stolen from the National Gallery in Greece. The artwork, called Head of a Woman in Picasso’s famous Cubist style, was TOKYO one of three pieces stolen from the Athens gallery in a daring heist in 2012. OLYMPICS A 49-year-old builder was arrested by police, who found two of the paintings The final edition of The in good condition hidden in a dried-up News Shed for this summer riverbed. term, available on July 16, A painting by Dutch artist Piet Mon- will be a special edition given drian was also recovered, but the suspect over entirely to the Olympic said the third work had become damaged Games, which are due to and he had flushed it down the toilet. start on July 23. The Picasso work, painted in 1939, was donated to the people of Greece by It will be packed with the artist in recognition of their bravery information on what’s during World War Two. happening and when at the Famous masterpieces can be bought summer Games, and will and sold for hundreds of millions of focus on the great athletes, pounds, but the Greek government said Head of a Woman by Pablo Picasso feats and records in Olympic Head of a Woman could never have been Games history. sold because it had an inscription on the being shown off to reporters at a press back reading: “For the Greek people, a conference, it suddenly slipped off the Don’t miss it! tribute by Picasso.” shelf where it was being displayed and The drama did not quite end with the crashed to the floor. Fortunately, no recovery of the painting – when it was damage was done. Fact SHED The most expensive paintings ever sold Price Title Artist n £325 million Salvator Mundi Leonardo da Vinci n £216 million Interchange Willem de Kooning The NEWS Shed n £180 million The Card Players Paul Cezanne n £151 million When Will You Marry? Paul Gauguin n £144 million Number 17A Jackson Pollock n The News Shed is a digital newspaper, produced weekly to inform, entertain and educate pupils and to provide resources Taking it easy on our summer holidays for their teachers. Many people are planning to enjoy the people are planning a walk in nature, simple things in life on holiday this year, with 46 per cent planning to go barefoot. n It is among a whole host of according to new research. More than 40 per cent are aiming to educational resources at: With exotic foreign holidays still a enjoy a picnic, while 10 per cent are www.literacyshedplus.com tricky business because of Covid-19 looking forward to listening to the sound travel restrictions, people aim to take it of the sea. n For contact details please easy according to the survey carried out The Trust is asking people to look after see the website. for the National Trust. wildlife and landscapes by binning litter It found that 70 per cent of British or taking it home to dispose of. July 2-9, 2021 The NATURE Shed 3 Scottish wildcat IN BRIEF population is said to be ‘not viable’ Police raid home to save ‘pet’ lion Police in Cambodia have confis- cated a lion that was being kept as a pet. The animal was imported into the Asian country specially to be kept as a pet, and police were on the case when the owner posted a video of the creature on social media site TikTok. “People have no right to raise rare wildlife as pets,” said a gov- ernment spokesman. Animal rescue charity Wild- life Alliance helped in the raid to Major cash boost rescue the lion. Its canine teeth and claws had been removed, “which drastically reduces a lion’s quality of life,” the charity said. to save wildcats Counting a whole with several wildlife groups. It aims to ›› Project to protect breed more Scottish wildcats and release country’s wildlife them into the wild. endangered species Now the project has been handed a Authorities in Kenya are to £400,000 grant from the Scottish Gov- carry out a massive survey of ork to save Scottish wildcats ernment to help the work. wild animals in the country. has been given a big helping Funding for the project had been hit Planes, helicopters and 4x4 Whand. by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced vehicles will be used to count A report in 2019 said the population of the closures of Highland Wildlife Park animals in nearly 60 wildlife the animals in the wild was “not viable”, and Edinburgh Zoo, costing RZSS more reserves and national parks. meaning there were so few of them they than £1.5 million. The government and other were in danger of becoming extinct. Conservation experts are hopeful organisations will then be able A project, Saving Wildcats, was the first wildcats can be released in to use the information to plan launched by the Royal Zoological Soci- 2023, with potential locations being future policy to protect animals ety of Scotland (RZSS), in partnership explored in the Cairngorms mountains. such as endangered primates and rare birds. Tortoise sisters get Go wild for kids’ luxury new home art competition London Zoo’s three giant Galapagos tor- London Zoo ZSL Picture: The RSPB (Royal Society for the toises are to have a brand new home. Protection of Birds) has launched a Giants of the Galapagos is a new WildArt competition. island home for sisters Dolly, Polly and Artwork can be in traditional Priscilla, who will have a choice of two paint, pens or pencil or could use lagoon pools to cool off in and a tropi- materials such as textiles or col- cal forest to explore on the island, which lages. Entries are only by photo- opens in August. Dolly, Polly and Priscilla graphs of the artwork on email. Visitors can walk through the island There are three categories: under with the tortoises only feet away in the Children can learn about the long life eight, eight to 12 and 13 and over. warmth of the 30°C tropical atmosphere cycle of a giant Galapagos tortoise, to For more details, go to: – the perfect temperature for the 26-year- discover how tiny hatchlings the size of www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/ olds, who have an expected life span of a hamster eventually grow into the big- for-kids/rspb-kids-competitions/ more than 100 years. gest tortoises in the world. wild-art/ 4 The ARTS Shed July 2-9, 2021 Game review SHED Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PlayStation 5, Insomniac Games/Sony 25 years old and Out now – £69.99 A brilliant example of how the PlayStation 5 console can make games look amazing. Two aliens battle to save the universe from a robotic villain in a still going strong game which is easy to follow and great fun at the same time. One of the most popular spin-offs has ›› Video game which been Pokemon trading cards, with more than 34 billion cards sold around the became huge business world. Very rare cards are bought and sold ne of the world’s most popular for big money, with the most expen- and successful children’s com- sive card sold for more than $350,000 Oputer games is celebrating it’s (£250,000) on eBay. 25th anniversary. The original video game is the The first Pokemon game, called Pocket second most popular of all time, Monsters Red and behind the Mario franchise. It Green, was played on has sold more than 380 million a Nintendo Game Boy copies, while mobile Game Builder Garage and was launched in Japan in downloads have topped Switch, Nintendo 1996.