Bullying on the increase
The number of children that are being bullied via the internet daily is growing everyday. Why do they keep social networks open if they cause such distress? A girl of 12 years old unwittingly became ‘friends’ with somebody much older than her online. This man harshly betrayed her, abusing her via a web cam.
Roughly 33% of all youths are cyber bullied; about 56% of this occurs in social chat rooms. Cyberbullying is also carried out via instant messages and emails.
Bullying is a serious problem. Thirteen year old Poppy Bracey recently committed suicide after being targeted by bullies for being pretty. She was verbally abused and was pushed to the point where she couldn’t cope anymore and hanged herself in her own bedroom. She was discovered by her family and rushed to hospital but died that day. Her family and friends miss her dearly. The school she attended was Lowton High School in Leigh, Greater Manchester.
Bullying statistics show that roughly 77% of all students are bullied mentally, verbally and physically.
Cole
Corey Is Killed by Drug Overdose
The actor, Corey Haim, died suddenly of a drugs overdose yesterday. He was taken to St Josephs hospital in California. He is suspected to have taken an overdose of prescription pills in his mum’s apartment in California. When the paramedics finally got Corey to the hospital he was no longer alive.
Corey became a star in the 80s. He starred in many teenager films. He was best known for being in the film ‘The lost Boys’.
Corey has struggled with a drug problem for many years. One of his friends had told him he would not speak to him unless he stopped taken the drugs. However, it is now too late.
By Jessica.
A drinking great gran from Georgia claims to be the world’s oldest person. Antisa Khvichava, who lives in a village called Tsalenjikhi in the mountains of Georgia.
130 year old granny
Officials say she’ll be 130 on the 8th of July. Authorities have her passport showing her D.O.B and pension book issued in the 1960’s. Although she was born in 1880, she only retired in 1965. If her claim is accepted she will take the title of the worlds oldest person from a Japanese woman aged 114 years old.
Matthew
Teacher vs. pupils at Blairgowrie High
At lunchtime on the 11th of March teachers and pupils went head to head in a football match in aid of Sport Relief. The match kicked of at 1pm and the pupils dominated the game early on. However, the teachers played more strategically in the long run.
It wasn’t a clean cut match as there were injuries on both sides. There was a spectacular clash between Mr Phillips and a pupil; both players ended up with nose bleeds and were knocked out the game.
The game ended 4-3 to the teachers. A surprising result but then the teachers did have four pupils playing on their side!
Sean, Jessica, Callum, Cole, Matthew
And finally!
Penguin suit? I’d rather wear an all black shirt
A king penguin has been found with an unusual appearance. Instead of having the usual white front the penguin is completely back. Experts describe the discovery as one in a zillion.
It was spotted by wildlife watchers at Fortuna Bay on the south of Georgia, about 860 miles off the Flaklands in the Atlantic.
The king penguin is thought to suffer from melanism, a mutation which turns the penguin black.
Callum
