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.

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