Archive for February, 2008

29 Feb

News - One day in court

The magistrates’ court in Northampton is next door to a large police station.
One of the first things you notice is how clean and tidy the place is - smoking appears to have been banned throughout the building.

Security is also fairly tight, but the court’s younger clientele nevertheless tend to treat the whole experience as a […]

28 Feb

News - Should we simplify spelling?

MASHA BELL: The Simplified Spelling Society believes that the spelling of English needs simplifying so children’s literacy can improve.
The US spelling bee’s winner summed up the problem neatly: “Spelling is just a bunch of memorization.”

VIVIAN COOK: Obviously anything that can help children become literate in English is worth considering.
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27 Feb

News - Why the web is not a safety net

According to Ofcom, which has a regulatory interest in such things, there are around 5.3 million broadband users in the UK and the number is rising by tens of thousands each week.

This is good news indeed for the backers of Broadband Britain, but the impact of a high-speed always-on net connection on our daily lives […]

26 Feb

Newsround - What makes the perfect family film?

The hit film from the 80’s, Back to The Future, has been given the title of most perfect family film.

So what do you think is the perfect family film and why?

Films which you never get bored of watching like Shrek, Potter or The Jungle Book?

Ones that your mum and dad like to watch with you, […]

25 Feb

Sport - 1st Test, day five - England v India as it happened

Monty’s done him! Arpy is suckered in by a flighted beauty, aims an insane big swing and is cleaned up. Unbelievable. One wicket needed, rain seconds away, darkness like a coal cellar. Sensational scenes.

1514: India 263-8Damp palms all round Lord’s, but with tension rather than rain. For now. Vaughan twirls away desperately and Glamour thrashes […]

24 Feb

News - Silver surfers say net is ‘vital’

Technology use across the age groups in the UK is on the rise, even though a recent report said older generations are still alienated by technology.

Two polls marking Silver Surfers’ day, suggest casual encounter sex datingual
like the net are considered essential by older people.

More than half of over-55s online say the net gives them […]

23 Feb

News - Lure of the chatroom

Shevaun Pennington, the 12-year-old who ran off with a man she met on the web, is hardly alone in chatting to an older man on the internet.

Making friends on the web and internet dating is a growing culture among her blog casual sex dating
, researchers say.

Some of Shevaun’s 12-year-old friends from Lowton High School described […]

22 Feb

News - The Magazine Monitor

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21 Feb

News - Tamagotchi reborn as an adult

Tamagotchi, the casual sex dating group
robot pet, is to get a new lease of life.

Bandai, the Japanese toy firm behind the egg-shaped plastic toy, has said it plans to relaunch the Tamagotchi robot next month.

But the new Tamagotchi’s habits will be more grown up than the casual sex dating california version; it will be […]

20 Feb

News - MySpace tightens age restrictions

Social networking website MySpace.com plans to introduce restrictions on how adults contact teenagers on the site.

The changes aim to make it more difficult for users more than 18 years old to befriend 14 and 15 year olds that they did not previously know.

A 14-year-old girl in the US is currently suing the site after […]