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400 refugee children reach out
to britain for a helping hand
Home News
CAMPAIGNERS want 400 refugee children to be let into Britain – quickly.
They say the 400 refugee children living in the socalled Jungle camp in Calais, France, meet the rules
to be allowed into the UK. They handed the list of
children to the Government and said Britain should
quickly accept them. Many of the children are said
to have family already in Britain.
First News went to visit the camp last Friday with
UNICEF. We saw young children wandering around
alone who have a right to be in Britain because of
by editor in chief Nicky Cox
their close family links here.
The campaign group Citizens UK says there are
800 children without an adult to care for them
among 7,000 refugees living in the Calais camp.
A crowd of about 150 people gathered outside
the Home Office in London, urging the Government
to immediately bring over those stranded children.
They said that, whatever people think about Brexit,
or the EU, it had nothing to do with Britain offering
safety to children fleeing war and violence. Many of
them are running away from the conflict in Syria.
The Government’s Home Office said it already
plans to transfer 150 children this year, and that it is
working to strengthen and speed up ways to identify
refugee children who are on their own, and move
them to the UK.
* The 2012 Newspaper Awards: Best weekly national newspaper and best niche market newspaper. Also, Plain English Campaign: Best national newspaper. * First News weekly readership is 2,042,199. Source: Opinion Matters 2014. First News supports children’s charities – see page 16.
All these stories are from the Home News section of ‘First News’.
Read the stories, and then try the puzzle. To help you, we have underlined the answers to the crossword
puzzle clues in the article itself – but you will need to match the correct word with each clue!
big news
CHESHIRE
Turtle theft
A small turtle called Clyde was stolen from her tank at an aquarium in Ellesmere Port this week.
A young visitor to the aquarium is believed to have climbed into the tank to get Clyde, then
stuffed her up his jumper in order to sneak her out. After a public appeal, Clyde was returned to
the aquarium in a washing-up bowl. Her keepers say she is fine after her unexpected adventure.
WALES
Pick up poo
A new campaign to encourage people to clean up after their dogs has begun this week in Wales.
In a recent survey, 52% of people in Cardiff said that seeing dog poo in public places was the
thing they most disliked, beating smoking and littering. The new campaign, called The Big
Scoop, reminds pet owners that they can be fined if they don’t clean up after their pet.
UK
Mosquitoes multiply
The warm and damp summer in the UK has provided perfect weather for mosquitoes to breed.
Reports of the biting bugs in homes and gardens around the UK have risen this summer. There
are 35 different kinds of mosquitoes in the UK, but only a few of those bite people. Around the
world more than one million people a year die from diseases spread by mosquito bites. Luckily,
in the UK, a mozzie bite rarely does anything worse than itch!
ACROSS
2. more than one person (plural noun 6)
4. This is another word for a project to
make pet owners clean up their dogs’ poo.
(noun 8)
6. This reptile is related to tortoises and
has a flattened shell. (noun 6)
7. This is short for zoo keepers – the
people who look after animals in a zoo.
(plural noun 7)
8. to tidy up, to get rid of
(verb 5)
DOWN
1. Mozzies is short for this word. (plural
noun 10)
3. illnesses, infections (plural noun 8)
5. This is a tank of water in which turtles
are kept.
(noun 11)
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Working with
Issue 534
Issue5349th-15thSeptember2016
10 YEARS
OF AWARD
WINNING
NEWS!*
news puzzle
9 – 15 Sept 2016
MORE THAN TWo MILLION READERS*
PANDAS
PICK UP!
400 refugee children reach out
to britain for a helping hand
Home News
CAMPAIGNERS want 400 refugee children to be let into Britain – quickly.
They say the 400 refugee children living in the socalled Jungle camp in Calais, France, meet the rules
to be allowed into the UK. They handed the list of
children to the Government and said Britain should
quickly accept them. Many of the children are said
to have family already in Britain.
First News went to visit the camp last Friday with
UNICEF. We saw young children wandering around
alone who have a right to be in Britain because of
by editor in chief Nicky Cox
their close family links here.
The campaign group Citizens UK says there are
800 children without an adult to care for them
among 7,000 refugees living in the Calais camp.
A crowd of about 150 people gathered outside
the Home Office in London, urging the Government
to immediately bring over those stranded children.
They said that, whatever people think about Brexit,
or the EU, it had nothing to do with Britain offering
safety to children fleeing war and violence. Many of
them are running away from the conflict in Syria.
The Government’s Home Office said it already
plans to transfer 150 children this year, and that it is
working to strengthen and speed up ways to identify
refugee children who are on their own, and move
them to the UK.
* The 2012 Newspaper Awards: Best weekly national newspaper and best niche market newspaper. Also, Plain English Campaign: Best national newspaper. * First News weekly readership is 2,042,199. Source: Opinion Matters 2014. First News supports children’s charities – see page 16.
All these stories are from the Home News section of ‘First News’.
Read the stories, and then try the puzzle. The answers to the clues are all words in the article. Answer the
clue and then underline the word in the story.
big news
CHESHIRE
Turtle theft
A small turtle called Clyde was stolen from her tank at an aquarium in Ellesmere Port this week.
A young visitor to the aquarium is believed to have climbed into the tank to get Clyde, then
stuffed her up his jumper in order to sneak her out. After a public appeal, Clyde was returned to
the aquarium in a washing-up bowl. Her keepers say she is fine after her unexpected adventure.
WALES
Pick up poo
A new campaign to encourage people to clean up after their dogs has begun this week in Wales.
In a recent survey, 52% of people in Cardiff said that seeing dog poo in public places was the
thing they most disliked, beating smoking and littering. The new campaign, called The Big
Scoop, reminds pet owners that they can be fined if they don’t clean up after their pet.
UK
Mosquitoes multiply
The warm and damp summer in the UK has provided perfect weather for mosquitoes to breed.
Reports of the biting bugs in homes and gardens around the UK have risen this summer. There
are 35 different kinds of mosquitoes in the UK, but only a few of those bite people. Around the
world more than one million people a year die from diseases spread by mosquito bites. Luckily,
in the UK, a mozzie bite rarely does anything worse than itch!
ACROSS
2. more than one person (plural noun 6)
4. This is another word for a project to
make pet owners clean up their dogs’ poo.
(noun 8)
6. This reptile is related to tortoises and
has a flattened shell. (noun 6)
7. Short for zoo keepers – the people who
look after animals in a zoo. (plural noun 7)
8. to tidy up, to get rid of
(verb 5)
DOWN
1. Mozzies is short for this word. (plural
noun 10)
3. illnesses, infections (plural noun 8)
5. This is a tank of water in which turtles
are kept.
(noun 11)