Weekly news: Children react to EU referendum results

Parents and teachers have been bombarded with questions from youngsters and schools have rearranged lessons to discuss the key issues.
Suzanne, from London, said her eight-year-old son Sam's school held a mock referendum and voted for Remain. She then said when the real results were revealed, he put his head in his hands and said "pooey, pooey, bum, bum". 
EnglishRose1320 said her 10-year-old daughter packed a bag and said  "I'm moving to Canada, I don't feel a part of the UK anymore.
Andreea Okoye, 10, thinks children should have been given a vote because adults only have to live with the result for "20 or 30 years more". "No offence", she added.
From a "brexits" point of view, they would argue that children and young people have been brainwashed by those who wish to remain. Children have been made to fear leaving the EU by telling them the worst of the outcomes and exaggerating them, children wouldn't say such things otherwise. 
From a "remains" point of view, they would argue that it is good that children are eager to get involved with politics and care about their future. 

Children believe that they should also be allowed to vote. 

The Untouchables

How The Untouchables can be used as a case study for:


Disability - In this film, disability was exploited as it was used as a weapon to escape from the police and prevent them getting into trouble. It portrays that having a disability is a good thing and can be used to help and benefit others when really it's an upsetting and torturous way to live. Another representation of disability is that they don't in fact require other's sympathy or need people to pity them, which goes against stereotypical ideas about those who have a severe disability. Many people assume that feeling sorry and treating them specially is the right behaviour when really all they want is to interact normally with others regardless of their lack of ability and for their disability to not hold them back. It shows this when Philip is in need for somebody to care for him, as he explains himself that he doesn't want to hire people who will pity him, which is why he chooses Driss as he doesn't treat him any differently to people without a disability.


Ethnicity - This film represents black males in a stereotypical way as Driss is a common 'thug' who has a difficult lifestyle. This is the stereotypical lifestyle for black males. Driss is also treated differently when being interviewed. Everyone else (white males) were asked simple interview questions whereas Driss was asked many more questions as if they were trying to put him on the spot. This is possibly because they were curious about him due to the fact that he is a black male dressed unprofessionally.

Dog found by the roadside next to a carrier bag containing her dead puppies :( (Mail online)

A town councilor discovered a heartbreaking scene in Midville, where a three year old mother dog, now named Carly, was by the roadside with her dead puppies inside a carrier bag. The town councilor, Paul Skinner described the dog as 'having tears in her eyes'.


 'I was out cycling with my friend at the time, said Skinner. 'We spotted on the verge something that looked like a dead bird, but as we passed it it moved. It was a small spaniel without a collar. We looked around in case anyone was in trouble. It was set back quite a long way from the road. The dog was on its own, sitting licking the contents of a fish and chips carrier bag.'

'The bag contained four dead pups. It was heartbreaking. She had tears in her eyes. I could not believe anybody could be so devoid of humanity to do something like this.'

He alerted the police and RSPCA, which came to the rescue. The spaniel cross puppies were also resuscitated. The vets believed that they were born alive on that morning and have been left there since early hours. The puppies were unable to be resuscitated, but the mother is now being looked after. 

The RSPCA have launched an investigation following the discovery. Inspector Becky Harper said: 'It is a terribly upsetting incident. It looks like this little dog has been cruelly dumped along with her newborn pups. We don't know whether the puppies were stillborn or whether they died because of the cold.'

The issue here is a horrific type of abuse towards animals, which is neglect. It seems as though a pregnant dog was thrown out by an owner shortly before she gave birth to the puppies. However, she could have been a stray who had become pregnant but couldn't provide for her puppies in order for them to survive. Either way, the issue is that no one had rescued the dog and puppies, and by the time she was found and reported, it was too late to save them. 

In my opinion, I think that more could've been done to prevent the puppies' death. As they were alongside a road, many people and cars would've passed by and could've easily stopped to even take a look. It was in daylight and the dog must have been crying and howling for help and it surprises me that she wasn't heard or seen for hours.

On the other hand, the RSPCA and all the other members who are now caring for Carly and looking further into what happened, I believe are doing a very admirable thing. I think it's good that they aren't ignoring what happened. 

15 year old school girl missing

A 15 year old school girl named Lauren from Essex has been missing for 3 days, after a man phoned her school pretending to be her dad. Her mum, Hayley, believes she has run away with a group of older men. The teenager told her mum she was going to stay with a friend but hasn't been seen since. Her mum believes that the older men are giving her alcohol so she can't look after herself. 

Mrs canon said: 'there are some who are older than lauren and some who were in their early 20's'.

'It has come out now that she has a life for herself that our family don't know about and friends who are completely oblivious to it. It is very worrying.'

Mrs Cannon said Lauren ran away when she asked for the mother's number of a friend she had claimed to have been with the night before. Her mum said this is nothing like her, she's expected to do well in her gcse's, there's been no bad behaviour to lead up to this and everyone who knows her would say she has a good heart. 

I believe it's important for these stories to be spread across the media not just to help find the missing girl but for the awareness to other teenage girls. It also shows how tradgedies like this can happen to the most ordinary of people, as she was just a typical girl prepared to sit her gcse's, like most teenagers are. 

Censorship essay

Censorship is used within every part of the media whether it’s films, music on the radio, music videos, on TV or social networking sites. The media contains censorship to prevent certain members of society coming across content which they shouldn’t see or hear. The reason behind this is so the most vulnerable in society aren’t affected by some of the explicit and harsh content that the media share for the public to see. In addition to this, censorship provides security for young people, as they are unaware and oblivious to the dangerous side of the media and the outcomes, as well as being vulnerable. Everything we see or hear in the media influences us and even has the ability to leave us scarred if we happen to see something indecent. Censorship acts as a barrier to what we should and shouldn’t be viewing.

For instance, if you think about censorship in films you’ll notice that there are restrictions, stating whom that film isn’t suitable for. The first one is age ratings. Age ratings exist as there is explicit content shown in many films that are inappropriate for young people. This would include sexual scenes, violence, nudity and bad language. These age ratings suggest that people who are under the age given, shouldn’t watch the film as it may influence them or have an impact on their life. For example, an age rating of a film may be 15 due to the amount of violence is contains. If a person under the age of 15 were to watch it, they may be influenced to use similar violence to deal with situations as that’s what they might consider to be normal. As said, the young are vulnerable and have little understanding between right and wrong. Furthermore, you’ll notice that before a film starts, there is a reminder as to what sort of content it contains. One example is that it’ll recommend people with epilepsy to not watch the film if there is a wide range of flashing images. This kind of censorship is to protect those who would be affected by it, which in this case would be a seizure. Therefore, a reminder is always provided prior to the film starting.

Another type of censorship is the watershed. The watershed is the time when programmes that are regarded as unsuitable for children are shown on TV. After 9pm, all channels are allowed to air programmes containing graphic content. Usually, by 9pm children are in bed so won’t have access to the TV and watch programmes that are inappropriate for them. Anything before 9pm wouldn’t show a lot of violence, horror/gore, swearing, nudity, drug use and many more. If they were to show any of this, it would be pin protected so children couldn’t watch it. Programmes and films containing this kind of content aren’t suitable for children because they are too young to be introduced to it. A child shouldn’t witness drug use on TV as it may influence them to use it later on in life, especially as the media doesn’t give a true representation of the effects of drugs. Children tend to follow in the footsteps of adults as they look up to them. If they are consistently watching programmes that contains foul language and is used in almost every sentence, it’s likely that a child would recognise this as normal and soon pick up from what they’ve learned before doing so themselves. Luckily, due to the watershed, it’s less likely for children to learn the darker side to TV programmes.

Two theives stole money from poppy tin in Croydon

The two men who stole a poppy tin from a builder’s yard in Croydon have been labelled the scum of the earth.

They were caught on CCTV breaking into Spring Lane Builders merchant, twice during Sunday morning. The CCTV shows them running off with cash before returning that night to steal a poppy appeal collection box.

The images of the two breaking in were posted onto social media by Olivia Betteridge, whose dad runs the business, in hope of catching them.

Olivia told the advertiser ‘these guys are absolute sum. I want them to be caught, you can’t go around doing things like this’. At 1am on Sunday morning Barry Whitmore received a call to say the alarm had gone off at the yard he runs with his son.

Mr Whitmore said "We've had break-ins before but this is the worst because of the time of year. People who donate to the Poppy Appeal often do so for personal reasons”.

"The tin had around £20 in it. We'd only had it a week. We've had one here for the last four years. We wanted to do our bit."

"You do something that's really rewarding only to get a kick in the teeth like this,”.

The break-in has now been reported to the police who have started an investigation.

I think what the thieves done was truly disgusting, especially as they didn’t care where and who were taking the money from. They decided to go through with something that would get them into so much trouble and be hated by the public, just to receive £20. I believe it was a good idea for Olivia to post a picture of the thieves on social media.

http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Thieves-stole-poppy-tin-Croydon-break-branded/story-28099193-detail/story.htmlthey

Hanged teen failed by the police

A teenager who was hanged by a man obsessed with asphyxiating girls, was failed by the police and social services

Jamie Reynolds tried to strangle a girl in 2008 and went on to hang 17 year old Georgia Williams in 2013.

A number of agencies have jointly admitted a series of failures.

Her parents said: "If people had just done their jobs properly our daughter would still be alive."

Georgia’s parents said: "Having lost Georgia to pure evil, we cried when we read this report and the failings of all the agencies involved, because it was so obvious that Reynolds was, if not one already, a murderer in the making. Georgia’s death could’ve been prevented”.

Reynolds was jailed in december 2013, after admitting that he killed Georgia.

Chief Constable David Shaw, said: "We could have and should have done better. We let Georgia down."

 The Justice Liaison Service told Reynolds stepfather to tell the police about the pornography and drawings of his next victims, but the force did not act on them.Instead, Reynolds was given a final written warning by police.