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Quick news FirstNews Issue 556 10 – 16 February 2017 1 PERSONAL LEGO 6 Internet safety 9 Otter match 15 Rockets To celebrate the release of The LEGO Six-year-olds are as digitally savvy A rare giant ott er has arrived at grounded Batman Movie today (10 February), today as ten-year-olds were just three Chester Zoo as part of an endangered you can create your very own LEGO years ago. They are using social media, species breeding programme. Three- Russia has had to delay the character! You can give it its own streaming content, browsing the year-old Diego Junior has moved from launches of its Proton space name and skills, and fi nd out if internet in their bedrooms and even Bioparc de Doué la Fontaine in France rockets, aft er discovering they you’re a villain or a hero! Visit uploading their own videos. Internet aft er being chosen as the perfect weren’t safe. Workers helping sigfi g.legobatman.com/intl/uk to see. Matt ers released the study to mark geneti c match for Chester Zoo’s to build the engines used Here’s First News’ Ben in LEGO form! Safer Internet Day last week. resident female, Icana. cheap materials that weren’t as heat-resistant as the proper alloys made from precious 7 save the kiwi metals. This could have caused New Zealand is on a mission to save a serious accident. It’s believed its nati onal symbol, the kiwi. There are the alloys have gone missing. An believed to be fewer than 70,000 of investi gati on is now under way. the birds left . The government is using £6.5million to develop a plan to save 2 Bee battle the birds. 16 Sausage sizzle No junk food An internati onal cricket match 10 A new DIY shop – Bunnings between Sri Lanka and South Africa A group of South Pacifi c islands are Warehouse – in Hertf ordshire has had to be stopped twice because banning junk food from overseas. been making the news all the way of a swarm of bees. A groundsman Torba, a province of Vanuatu, wants over in Australia. Why? Because of its tried to ward the creatures off using to promote only local and organic sausages! Bunnings Warehouse is a a fi re exti nguisher (below), before a produce. The new ban includes sweets famous Australian brand that regularly beekeeper was called. and biscuits, as well as foods like rice hosts ‘sausage sizzle’ events. They’ll and noodles. now be popping up in the UK too, minus the glorious sunshine! One Twitt er user said: “Say goodbye to 11 Kiss of life your weekends, suckers.” Apparently, A dog owner helped to save his pet the sausages are prett y good! pooch, by giving her the kiss of life. Trevor Jackson gave his greyhound, 17 Light dilemma Princess, mouth-to-mouth resuscitati on when she collapsed while out on a walk. A study by Exeter University has found that energy-saving street lights att ract 3 Peperami scent 20 predatory spiders and beetles. This in turn is aff ecti ng other species. Now Are you a fan of the pork sausage THINGS TO KNOW AND TELL there are calls for the lights to be snack, Peperami? The makers have dimmed or turned off at certain ti mes. just introduced a new product… men’s aft ershave! Porc by Peperami is described as a “scinti llati ng scent Quick news to read yourself 18 Fastest flyer of spicy sausage.” Mmm! Sadly, it’s and share WITH FRIENDS... A 14-year-old indoor skydiver has only available for a limited ti me to been crowned the “world’s fastest celebrate Valenti ne’s Day. fl yer” at the Wind Games in Catalonia, Spain. Kyra Poh from Singapore was 4 Longest flight 8 Slippery situation 12 Overcrowding one of the youngest to compete in the competi ti on. Qatar Airways has launched the A woman got trapped in her bathtub Nine in ten hospitals in England have world’s longest commercial fl ight! The for 30 minutes aft er enjoying a soak become overcrowded this winter. fi rst record-breaking fl ight took off with coconut oil! Denshan from Bosses say hospitals are fi nding it 19 choc cuts last week and lasted 16 hours and 23 Australia was feeling poorly and heard hard to send elderly pati ents home. The size of chocolate bars could be minutes (quicker than expected). The that a coconut oil bath could help. It cut, to help tackle childhood obesity. new service takes passengers from turns out it doesn’t. The substance is 13 extended stay A new report by Public Health England Doha in Qatar to New Zealand. so oily that, when she att empted to get is expected to be released next month, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu out, she found she had no grip and was which will detail which manufacturers Buhari has extended his medical stuck! Oops! are making foods high in sugar. 5 Rare frog leave in the UK, amid concerns for his health. A rare frog has been spott ed for the fi rst ti me since 1962! quote The Arthrolepti s troglodytes, 14 Nurdle hunt otherwise known as the Samuel on spending enough People across the UK have taken cave squeaker, was found ti me with family/carers: part in the biggest ever nurdle hunt. by researchers in Zimbabwe. Nurdles are litt le pellets used to make 20 World tour The species was said to be “I get some ti me with lots of plasti c products. They oft en criti cally endangered, possibly my parents, but I would end up in the sea and wash up on our Following her Super Bowl performance, even exti nct. like more.” shores, proving dangerous for humans Lady Gaga has announced a world tour and animals. for 2017. 3. big news FirstNews Issue 556 10 – 16 February 2017 Ahmed, ten, att ends a class at a recently reopened Editor’s school in eastern Mosul, Iraq. “Today comment a safer I feel like I’m back Nicky Cox MBE to life,” said Ahmed WE are very happy to see some children in countries torn apart by war are going school back to school. Ahmed’s comment (left ) “I feel like I’m back to life” is a real wake- up call to the world. It’s horrible to see children being the victi ms of adult wars. I hope that eff orts will conti nue to get all © UNICEF/UN049563/Anmar children “back to life”. SUBSCRIBE for home from front page by Ben Pulsford Get 3 ISSUES for £1* Call 01795 592946 TENS of thousands of children have returned to school in the eastern parts of Aleppo, Syria, as well as east www.fi rstnews.co.uk/ Mosul, Iraq, aft er violence in the areas forced schools to close. subscribe Violence and fi ghti ng in Aleppo and east Mosul forced years because of the violence, and girls were banned from *followed by £16.49 every many children to leave their homes and educati on behind getti ng an educati on. 3 months by Direct Debit – because it was too dangerous to stay. Lots of you will have In Syria, UNICEF has provided school supplies and read about these events in First News. developed a speeded-up learning programme. They have In recent weeks, the violence in these areas has calmed trained teachers to help children catch up on the months, TRAVEL ban BANNED down and UNICEF have helped 6,500 Syrian children and or even years, of educati on they have missed. 16,000 Iraqi children to go back to school. The charity is Although this is great news, there are lots of children sti ll responsible for the reopening of 23 primary schools in the out of educati on due to violence and unrest around their eastern parts of Aleppo and 30 schools in east Mosul. homes. In Syria alone there are an esti mated 1.7 million Some schools in east Mosul were closed for up to two children who sti ll can’t go to school. DONALD Trump’s ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries entering the USA has CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH WEEK been stopped by a judge. THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have The new president was furious that been shining a spotlight on your mental health this week. Judge James Robart scrapped his ban introduced in an executi ve order (a The young royals are all patrons of the mental health initi ati ve Heads Together. policy that a president can announce, Last Sunday (5 February), they joined Team Heads Together at a London Marathon which starts straight away). Mr Trump training day at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to kick off Children’s Mental expressed his fury at the independent Health Week (6-12 February).