Current Affairs
Syrian Refugees
Written By: Eddie Hodgkiss
Refugees are evacuating Syria
due to conflict.
The refugees are evacuating to
neighbouring countries like
Egypt and Turkey.
2013 is the year the regime (the
government) recapture some key
areas around the country. About
1,200,000 people have evacuated. That’s a lot of refugees!
In September 2013 border crossing is enabled for citizens of Syria. A total of around 2,000,000
In 2012 conflict spreads. People people. Think of it as a 1/5 of
start to flew the areas torn by vi- London, so at lot of people.
In 2014 the regime gain the lead
olence. At this time more than
and the rebels retreat. The total
30,000 people have evacuated
in this war of evacuees was
the country. That’s about our
around 2,600,000 refugees. A lot.
school times 100!
In 2011 the protests began in
Syria , but no one evacuated the
country.
In total the war was a horrible,
In August 2012 the rebels (the
people fighting the government) horrible event.
gained some significant ground,
but around 200,000 evacuated
Syria.
In December, still 2012, the rebels extend even more. Approximately 600,000 citizens evacuated. To sum up 2012, the rebels
gained the upper hand.
Current Affairs
US Navy Pilot Dies in Crash
Written By: Eddie Hodgkiss
As you may know a US navy pilot recently died in a crash near
an RAF base. He was flying an F18 jet plane. The crash was in
the Fens, in Cambridgeshire.
QUICK FACTS:
The jet crashed in a farm Redmere, quite close to Ely.
The police confirmed the pilot,
and only crew member died.
The plane took off from RAF
Lakenheath, but was not connected to the base.
It crashed four miles from RAF
Mildenhall.
Eyewitness says she could feel
the ground move when the
plane hit. Also she stated the
sound was deafening.
Still after the plane crash
workers in the fields around
the crash site continued
with their work.
The details of the crash is still
very rough and police and firemen are still examining the
plane.
The plane left with four planes
to the United Stares of America.
The area around the crash site
was surrounded by a few
houses, but mostly farmland
It was a good thing emergency
building were close to the farm.
RAF Mildenhall is leading the investigation into the crash.
This incident is very tragic and
sad. The family have been informed that he was a good pilot
Films
Despicable Me
Written By: Louie Bailie
Despicable me is a film about a
man named Gru (see image below) and of course his cute yellow little minions! Oh and maybe
three orphans that are the reason the whole film was made!
that Gru likes the girls and kidnaps them. Gru goes on a rescue
mission and, to make another
page-worths of writing shorter,
saves them.
I think Despicable me is a pretty
As you may have guessed from
good film and although is aimed
the title, Despicable me is about at children, is also highly entersomeone despicable, like Gru,
taining and amusing to adults as
the so called “Supervillian” . As well. It took a total of approx. 1.6
part of a plan to steal a shrink
years to make, made over 543
ray back from another supervilli- million dollars, and was only 69
an Vector, Gru goes to the local
million dollars to make. The truly
orphanage to adopt three oramazing thing is, that Despicable
phans as the girls from the orme was partially made by a comphanage were allowed inside
pany that had never made a CGI
Vector’s highly fortified base to animation movie before!
sell cookies. It all ends up with
Rating
Gru realising life isn't all about
4/5
power. He is forced, though, to
send the girls back to the orphanage as his assistant says
that there isn't enough evil work
going on. Sadly, Vector knows
Films
Rango
Written By: Louie Bailie
Rango is a film about a lizard
that loves acting, but in an accident he is flung from the back of
his owners car and lands in the
desert. He meets an animal
called Roadkill, who has ben run
over by a car. Roadkill is ok as he
wouldn't be called Roadkill if
he’d died the first time he’d been
run over. Roadkill tells Rango
about the Spirit of the West, a
mystical force, and then Rango
meets a Desert Iguana, named
Beans. He becomes a sheriff of
Bean’s town, as he loves acting
and puts on an attitude making
him look like a very tough wanderer. The town’s water supply
becomes very low and Rango is
asked to figure out why. The
truth is that the mayor of the
town is building a new modern
town and leaving the wild west
behind. He is re-routing the wa-
ter from the wild west town to
the new one he’s making. Rango
eventually saves the old town
and himself, leaving him making
a speech and riding off.
I think Rango isn't an amazing
film, but it is good enough for me
to even write a review on it. It
made a lot less money than Despicable me, only 100 million US
dollars were made. Rango won
an award for the best choice of
actor doing the voice of Rango,
which was Johnny Depp.
Rating 3/5
Gaming
Grow Home
Written By: Eddie Hodgkiss
superb.
Grow Home is an adventure
Gameplay is fairly easy. Controls
game made by Ubisoft. It was re- simple. I'm sorry if you really
leased on 4th February 2015.
love this game but as a Scribbler
It is played in 3 person perspec- reporter it is not my job to tell
tive. You control a robot named what to think, but to give you a
B.U.D. The aim is to harvest
different view to games.
seeds of a ‘Star Plant’. Technically In summary Grow Home is a faira giant beanstalk. Players run
ly new game, good and bad at the
around a small but high world.
same time. Guiding the stalks is
Now down to the facts. Grow
Home is free on PlayStation Plus
(for PS4’s) . If you have a Xbox or
no PS plus you’re going to have
to pay. There is no set amount,
the price varies from shop-toshop.
In my and my friends opinion
Grow Home is a pretty good
game, but if you have set pocket
money it is NOT worth it. Danger! For a short time this game is
very addictive. The graphics are
really good and the animation is
really hard because the islands
you must attach the stalks to are
really far away. If you like adventure games with hard and easy
part get it, if you don’t like this
sort of games don't get it. If you
want to see more game reviews
read next issue for my opinion
on: Lara Croft and the Temple of
Osiris (pegi 12).
Gaming
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
Written By: Eddie Hodgkiss
Rated a 12, this 3rd person Lara both gods!
Croft game is very good in my
At the end of each mission you
opinion.
will be rewarded with chests, but
To upgrade your character you be warned the chests requires
must find guns, rings and amu- gems to open. Gems are the curlets to upgrade.
rency of the game.
To find the pieces you must raid
tombs and complete puzzles to
get to the room where the piece
is. Also you must defeat bosses
like a giant snake or crocodile.
In co-op mode you can chose
your character. The choice is fairly limited because you can only
chose between: Lara, Carter, Horus and Iris.
At the beginning of the game
you, Lara Croft, and Carter, some
guy, touch the staff of Osiris and
are cursed. To lift the curse you
must help Horus and Iris stop
Set, an evil god from taking over
the world. To do this you must
raid tombs and defeat bosses to
get the relics in order to rebuild
Osiris to defeat set.
The graphics are really good and
gameplay is challenging but fun.
In my opinion this game is very
good, so technically it is worth
the money.
The only thing I don't get about
this game is why don't Horus
and Iris just defeat him. There
Rating: 4.2 out of 5!
Vehicles
Lexus Hoverboard
Written By: Matthew Spires
As you can probably tell from the
picture we are talking about hover boards or you can reefer to it
as ’The Future’. Anyway this hover board has some pros and cons
We will start off with the pros.
The hover board is fuel efficient
running on liquid nitrogen and
as you guessed there are some
magnetic features to it which
leads us to the cons. Such as it
has to have copper somewhere
under the ground for it to actually levitate other wise it’s a skate
board with no wheels (which is
pretty useless if you ask me) as
another con
it or not and that is that it costs
thousands to make so imaging
how much it will cost
And also Tony Hawk (Very famous skate-boarder said it was
extremely hard to do well anything on it and remember he is
essentially the best skater in the
world here is a quote from ‘I
know I am a pro skater but this
felt like I was back to the begging
Of skating’ but who knows one
day we could be seeing the hover
board in a shelve in toys’R’ us
and maybe even a hover car
think about that while your reading the next article about VehiThe hover board requires copper cles.
to use and
Copper is expensive making it almost impossible to use if you
don't have copper under your
house which most people do not.
And there is Another con believe
Vehicles
Segway
Written By: Matthew Spires
you are probably thinking that
we are talking about the Segway
with handles but no as the picture describes, we are looking at
The Segway without handles
which I personally think the Segway without handles is better let
me tell you why. First lets start of
with the pros the first pro is that
it costs much less and I mean a
4000 cost difference to the Segway with handles
that is why I recommend getting the
cheap one without
handles
Another pro is that
it is very surprisingly easy to use which
is quite shocking
since there is not a
lot of pros there is
also not a lot of
cons either. So the
first con it is a tiny bit more dangerous then a normal Segway
seeing as it does not have handles that is why I highly recommend safety gear especially for
young children and really that’s
the only con if you want more
information about a Segway visit
another website and remember
think about this while you read
the next vehicle article
Sport
Rugby World Cup
Written By: Archie Long
As we all know the Rugby World
Cup has been going on, countries
around the world gathering
around there TV and watching
there home nation battle out on
the pitch hoping there next win
will lead to victory!
I will tell you all the fixtures so
far and what's coming up next
and also go through the first
game...
England 35-11 Fiji
This was a very interesting game
(not only because I'm English)
To start of, there was a lovely
penalty scored by George Ford
bringing us up to 3-0 in the 3’
minute, then shortly after in the
7’ minute a missed penalty by
Volavola (thank the lord), we
then were awarded a penalty try
in the 13’ minute bringing us to 8
-0, to make maters worse for Fiji
Matawalu was given a yellow
card and George Ford successfully took the conversion, and it
gets better because in the 22’ minute Mike Brown scores a great
try but George Ford missed the
conversion, but in the 30’ minute
Nalodo scored but Volavola
missed the conversion, George
Ford scores a penalty in the 34’
minute bringing us up to 18-5
but in the 37’ minute Nalodo
scores a penalty bringing Fiji up
to 18-8 and then George Ford
misses another penalty in the 42’
minute. Half time. 60’ minute waqaniburotu comes of for Yatu, 62’
Ford comes of for Farrell, Nalodo
misses a penalty, Barritt comes
of for Burges, 64’ minute Volavola scores a penalty, 68’ Farrell
scores a penalty bringing us up
to 21-11, Cole comes of for
Brooks in the 68’ minute, 74
Mike Brown scores a try bringing
us up to 26-11, and Owen Farrell
Sport
Rugby World Cup
Written By: Archie Long
scares the conversion, 74’
Youngs off for Webber, 74’
Ma’afu of for R avai, 74’ Koto of
for Tuapati, 78’ Saulo of for Colati, 82’ vinapola bringing the
score to 33-11, Farrell scores
the3 conversion bringing the
score to 35-11.
Tonga 10-17 Georgia
Ireland 50-7 Canada
South Africa 32-34 japan
France 32-10 Italy
Samoa 25-16 USA
Wales 54-9 Uruguay
New Zealand 26-16 Argentina
Scotland 45-10 japan
Australia 28-13 Fiji
France 38-11 Romania
New Zealand 58-14 Namibia
Argentina 54-9 Georgia
Italy 23-18 Canada
South Africa 46-6 Samoa
England 25-28 wales
Australia 65– 3 Uruguay
Scotland 39-16 USA
Ireland 44-10 Romania
Tonga 35-21 Namibia
Wales 23-13 Fiji
France 41-18 Canada
New Zealand 43-10 Georgia
Samoa 5-26 japan
South Africa 34-16 Scotland
England 13-33 Australia
Argentina 45-16 Tonga
Ireland 16-9 Italy
Canada 15-17 Romania
Fiji 47-15 Uruguay
To come up: RSA V USA, NAM V
GEO, NZL V TGA, SAM V SCO,
AUS V WAL, ENG V URU, ARG V
NAM, ITA V ROM, FRA V IRE,
USA V JPN. Be sure to watch the
rugby world cup and if you supported England (which are out)
who will you support now.
Wildlife
Blob Fish
Written By: Luca Silva
The blob fish is known for its sad want to look at an extremely
face, so much so that this fish is deepest creacher all day I would
the grumpy cat under the sea.
not recommend wasting you're
The blobfish is called a blob be- time or money.
cause when court they unfortunately turn blobby and die
This is because they have no
bones or muscles, this is good for
them because fish have a swim
bladder so they can float and
swim however if they go to far
down BOOM… but the blobfish is
more dense than water so he's fine.
Blobfish have no teeth or bones,
so how or what do blobfish eat
and why am I asking you? the answer is we just don't know, however some scientists believe that
they eat crabs, sea urchins and
shellfish.
If you want a blobfish as a pet,
I'm afraid that they have never
been caught, alive so unless you
The ugliest fish in the sea (or anywhere else) was voted the ugliest thing in the world it was described by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as “a big, blobby tadpole, just a mass of pale, jelly-like
flesh with puffy, loose skin, a big
nose and beady, staring eyes.”
however in water it looks beautiful (sort of)
Wildlife
Vampire Bat
Written By: Luca Silva
Vampire bats are not called vampire bat because they die in sunlight and live forever, they are
just called vampires because
they drink blood from cows.
They have small ears and a small
tail and only weigh about two
ounces.
short muzzle that looks very
fluffy. Remember the teeth I
mentioned? Theas are the
chompers they use to suck blood
out of the cows and then they
tern into vamp- wait wrong vampire they use there razer sharp
teeth to cut throw the cow that
doesn't feel a thing sucks some
However don't be fooled these
blood and is off to repeat the
things are deadly! (to cows
sometimes at least) the vampire process.
bats sometimes carry a venom- You normally find vampire bats
ous bite, I say sometimes bein south America but they share
cause it is a disease but there is a a caves whith loads of creepy inlikely chance that the bat don't sects and other things.
carry the disease.
They have a classic vampire look mainly a wide
mouth that opens up and
shows their teeth, making
them very scary and two
leathery wings that look
like a cape. Away from the
vampire look it has a
Fantasy Origins
Han Solo
Written By: Louie Bailie
Han Solo. Smuggler. Hero. Not
two words most people usually
associate with one another. And
if I’m honest with you, he never
intended to be either, but my job
in the Scribbler is to tell you how
he took on those roles. Enough of
the introduction, read on if you
want to know the backstory of
ordered to kill a hostage, a
Wookie, named Chewbacca, he
refused and was expelled from
the academy! But from then on
Chewbacca became his best
friend and the two smuggled together for a few years. One of his
bosses in spice smuggling, Jabba
the Hutt, said that Han owed him
money, and put a bounty on his
Han Solo.
Han was born into poverty and head until Han paid him. Han arwas a petty thief as a child steal- rived at Tatooine (the world with
the Hutt’s base on) to pay him,
ing and smuggling person, it
but then Luke Skywalker and Obi
made the difference between
starving and eating. Eventually -Wan Kenobi hired him to take
he was excepted into the Imperi- them to a planet called Alderaan.
al academy, which meant he did- But this involved series of events
which made Han a hero.
n't have to steal for a living but
he would have to leave his family behind on his home world of
Corellia. But with his luck it’s
pretty clear that all was fine and
dandy for a very short time. On
one of his first missions he was
Fantasy Origins
The Flash
Written By: Matthew Spires
The Flash is a man who can obviously run at super speeds, but
we are talking about a specific
Flash called Barry Allen. There
are also five other Flashes but
we aren't going to talk about
them right now. Barry Allen is
the second Flash of his Time.
But anyway now onto the real
origin Barry Allen's Mother was
killed by the Reverse Flash
when Barry was young. He became the Flash when he was
working in his forensics lab.
Then suddenly
A flash of lightning propelling
him into lots of chemicals leaving him in a coma for 9 months
when he woke up from that coma he was in a lab with Harrison wells and Katelyn Snow later on they reveal that Katelyn
Snow becomes Killer Frost and
Harrison Wells becomes the re-
verse Flash the Flash's arch enemy. But your
Probably thinking the reverse
Flash must be really old because
he killed Barry's mother but the
reverse flash ran so fast he travelled back in time to kill her on
purpose out of hatred of Barry .
After these events he met lots of
super villains like captain Cold
or
Gorilla Grodd and he met lots of
Other super-heroes like BatMan, Green-Lantern and Cyborg
Also even having a team-up with
Power-Man. So there you have a
portion of his massive Origin story. Look out for the next origin
story next
issue!