Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Random
Week 3, article #2
Week 3, article #1
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Monday, 18 April 2011
INSTALLING SPRING
Week 2, article #2
David Cameron said that the National Health Service’s overhaul will be delayed, because doctors and nurses resist the plans. He went on saying that there would be prober and substantive changes to the planned reforms. Also, the hospital doctors and GPs would be involved with making these reforms. Meanwhile the Government has paused the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill to listen to people’s worries. Mr. Cameron also said that the plans wouldn’t change, despite all the objections. He will take it easy making them though, telling the Sky news: “It’s much more important to get this right than to stick to your original timetable in every way.” Furthermore he insists it’s not a PR stunt.
Week 2, article #1
During an accident, trainee gamekeeper Calum Murray accidentally shot Sophie Taylor. Afterwards he shot himself. This week a special school assembly is being held for the two teenagers, to give classmates of Sophie a chance to come together and reflect. The teenagers will also be offered counseling, they can do this one-to-one or in groups. Furthermore, the police don’t think there is anyone else involved with the tragedy.
Monday, 11 April 2011
Week 1, article #2
Title: Cameron drums up support for royal wedding street parties as figures show north-south divide
By Gordon Rayner and Nigel Bunyan
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Summary of article
When Lady Diana Spencer was going to marry the Prince of Wales in 1981 there had been tens of thousands applications for street parties. The people wanted to celebrate the wedding. However, now there are only 4000 applications for street parties for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Prime Minister Cameron wants to increas the amount of parties.
Mr. Cameron says that there aren’t any rules to having a street party and that everyone can celebrate if they want to. By saying this he wants to promote the street parties in
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My opinion
I think it's wonderful that there are people who want to celebrate the wedding of the Prince. Of course not everyone wants to do this with a street party. Even though there haven't been a terrible lot of applications for street parties, this doesn't mean no one is celebrating! When we look at our society today, I think these parties might not be a part of it anymore. Not as big a part as it was in 1981 when the Prince of Wales married. This would explain the big difference between tens of thousands street parties in 1981 and the 4000 in 2011.
Oops
Week 1, article #1
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/governments-doomed-6bn-plan-to-dispose-of-nuclear-waste-2266047.html
The UK Government had made a plan to tackle
“Other Japanese power companies have indicated that – they will not be taking any reprocessed fuel from
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My opinion
What I understand from this article is that Japan refuses all international trade because of one power plant failing, while all the others are still working perfectly. England processes plutonium waste into nuclear energy but because the trade between Japan has been frozen they cannot do anything with the nuclear energy. Alas, it's very expensive to store plutonium. I think Japan is being a bit too nervous about the nuclear energy and that because one power plant failed, that doesn't mean they need to shut off the other plants from trade too.