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In the present climate of cuts it is no suprise that national youth services and youth clubs are going to suffer. The priority for finances will be given to education for young people.
“Councillor Rita Krishna, a member of the Children and Young People’s board of the Local Government Association, said there was a risk that […]

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I read this yesterday whilst Sam was having root canal surgery at the dentist. It is about becoming a RIP tweeter or facebook user. It made me smirk and think of all those people I know that are adicted to friendship sites.
A personal challenge : Read this and then wonder whether you could really do […]

Can you believe it….
A member of the public clled the RSPCA’s emerency line to report a seagull who was looking sad because it was sitting in the rain. An RSPCA report published this week says that the organisation received more than a million calls in 2009 - not all of them real emergencies. These included […]

We have been through a lot in Huddersfield recently with the ice and snow. There has been snow on the ground for nearly a month now and the kids have been to school for only a handful of days since Christmas. We have had a taxi land on a roof (click here) and people crawling […]

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Everything about Betelgeuse is supersize. More than 900 times the Sun’s diameter, this star would comfortably engulf the entirety of Mars’s orbit and the asteroid belt. It also outshines the Sun by 135,000 times — a dazzling 1st-magnitude beacon despite its distance of some 640 light-years.

BBC radio1 are having a special focus on anti bullying called bully proof.  This web site has some really cool ideas about tips on how to react, standing tall and feeling good, how to prevent cyber bullying, phone numbers to ring if you are under pressure because of bullying and many other ideas.
The link is here.

Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers observed a new swarm of stellar nurseries in the spiral galaxy NGC 253. Researchers identified 37 bright regions packed into the core of the galaxy that are popping out new stars at an intense pace. Each bright spot could contain as many as one hundred thousand massive stars.
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They thought Saturn only had 7 rings (well actually it has more than 7 but the others are not named). The  Nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope was able discover a new ring by picking up tiny particles of dust and ice using an infrared instrument. The ring is about 1.5 million miles thick It is amazing […]

Les Paul is know as a guitar pioneer for his incredible work with the electric guitar. He invented his own electric guitars - his first was known as ‘the log’. Everyone thought that he was crazy and wondered why anyone would not prefer the old acoustic guitar. He created a whole new sound and era - […]

Wow - what you could do with 6.2 million!!
The latest purchase of a rare blue dimond reached the exorbitant price of 6.2 million pounds. When I heard the news on the radio I was flabbergasted. All that money for a small stone. Just imagine if you were wearing the ring with the stone in and […]

Read this  amazing article that Roger Aubrey found to encourage and excite you in the knowledge of all that God is doing in China. Click here for the link.

There has been an uproar in the land of beauty queens by a lady who did not say the politically correct thing just to win. Carrie Prejean stood by her own convictions and family values in a polite and non- offensive way. She is presently Miss California and was in the running for Miss USA. […]

A new piece of research shows that 85% of young men think that newspapers give them a bad image and four in five think that adults are more wary of them than they were a year ago because of it. On top of this boys who were surveyed (13-19) also say that negative media stories about […]