Annie Giordano | When watching sports channels on TV, how many times do we see coverage on women’s sports? How many times are the sports we watch NOT dominated by men? Rarely. In fact, womens sports events make up only 7% of all Sports TV coverage. 7%! That means the likelihood of young girls switching on a sports channel to see a woman who they can
Katie Hunter | Depute Editor-In-Chief I must admit as I scanned the newspaper headlines last week I did wonder if the famous fast food chain was branching out into hairdressing! The story centres around a school in Great Yarmouth, where the Headmaster sent a letter to parents banning a number of hairstyles including the “Meet Me At McDonald’s” haircut. As you can see in the image
Eleanor Service | Editor Loneliness is an odd thing. It can sneak up on you when you least expect it. Where before there was peace, there are now crushing waves of pain threatening to drown you. And you didn’t even realise you had a toe in the water. Alternatively, it can take a more direct approach, swarming your every sense until it is impossible to ignore,
Faith Sindick | Reporter The Swedish multibillion pound company H&M has apologised over advert that has put the world in disarray. The advert features an 8-year-old black boy wearing a jumper saying, ‘coolest monkey in the jungle’ with some claiming that the jumper is insensitive and racist. Others say that it’s a child wearing a normal kid’s jumper. Consequently, the last week has seen the public
Eleanor Service | School and Local News Editor Stress. Anxiety. Depression. These three very serious things are all topics that today’s high school students are intimately familiar with, whether they realise it or not.
Rachael Smith | Reporter In a fatally unfortunate series of events, a mother of four was found dead and alone in her chilling home after her welfare was mercilessly cut off. Elaine Morall, only 38 years of age, had her welfare payments – which, incidentally, paid for the heating bill – halted after she missed an interview with officials, due to her being ill. Morall, a
Faith Sindick | Reporter Jack Mitchell-Divers | Editor-In-Chief On Tuesday evening the President of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont signed a document that declared Catalonia’s independence from Spain but then said it would not activated for several weeks. On Fiesta Nacional de España Pro-Spain protestors threw chairs to the Pro-Catalonia protestors on the streets of Barcelona before being split up by the police.
Robyn Bolger | Reporter The ‘Matched’ series by Ally Condie is about a world that is run by the ‘Society’. Nobody knows how to write, everything is done through a computer. Everybody knows only what the Society wants them to know. There are certain pills that each person has to take when commanded to. The green pill to keep calm, blue to survive in emergencies and
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