Shortly before the Christmas break, St Andrew’s and St Bride’s High School kindly distributed over 200 books to the S2 pupils, as part of the First minister’s reading challenge – which the High School is piloting for all secondary schools in Scotland. The year group was then set a challenge to fulfill by Mid-February of this year…
Eleanor Service| An aid convoy has finally managed to reach one of the many besieged towns in Syria. This is because the UN has used the partial truce organised by the US and Russia as an opportunity to deliver aid.
Eleanor Service| On only the second day of its existence, the incredibly delicate truce in Syria has already allegedly been breached. Russia and anti-government rebels have both reported breaches of the truce.
Katie Hunter | Conflicts involving Islamic State continue to dominate the news with another attack reported on Saturday in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour in Syria, one of a number of towns under siege as a result of Syria’s five year civil war.
Daniel Everett | Editing Team Don’t Tread On the Bear For the first time since the 1950’s a nation belonging to NATO has shot down a Russian plane.
Nicholas Starkey | Editing Team
Ruaraidh Gilmour | World Editor This summer I went on holiday to a small island close to Rhodes, Halki. It has a population of 400 and like Greece it has been struggling with the economic crisis the country has recently been undergoing. In extreme cases some islanders have had to leave in search of work on neighbouring Rhodes.
Ruaraidh Gilmour | World Editor Two weeks after Germany pledged to offer refuge to as many Syrian migrants as possible, there have been great acts of kindness made from Europeans citizens showing their desire to help the migrants from Syria; football fans holding banners with similar phrases to “Refugees welcome”, “Migrants welcome,” to German children handing child migrants sweets as they came off trains to a
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