A Flavour of BBC School Report Day 2010

Mar12

Well Done!

A huge well done from us here at Gateshead CLC to all the students and staff who participated in yesterday's BBC School Report.

I think we can safely say, given the extent of BBC coverage of our day, that it was a huge success!

Thanks for your hard work, good humour and patience. You were all a credit to your schools!

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Mar11

BBC News Stars!

Fresh from their fab live interview on BBC News Channel...

BBC News reporter and students from Whickham School

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Live on BBC News Channel

Our debate ended slightly prematurely to allow a live news piece to BBC News Channel...interviews with some of the students..shame the reporter claimed we were in Glasgow!

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Northumbrian & Cleveland police top HCMI review

Two of the North East's police forces are among the top in England and Wales, according to a new review.

Northumbria and Cleveland police were both rated "good" in the three categories se by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary. (HMIC)

The findings are due to be published on a national website which will give an overview of police effectiveness.

Durham and Cumbria police also performed well, both receiving two "good" and one "fair" grade.

HMCI has produced report cards that assess each force in three categorises: local crime and policing; protection from serious harm; and confidence and satisfaction.

The forces were graded from "poor" to "excellent", with one to four points being allocated accordingly.
Northumbria and Cleveland police were among only six of the 43 constabularies to score nine points.

Durham and Cumbria each received eight points.

Northumbria chief constable Mike Craik said: "This success is due to the commitment and dedication of all our officers and staff and the support of our partners and the public."

"However, we are never complacent and are always looking to drive our service forward. That is one of the key reasons for our success."

Sean Prince, Cleveland's chief constable, also welcomed the figures, but stressed that there was still room for improvement.

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New source of electrical power-is this the end of the energy crisis?

By Angus

In stark contrast to the common point of view that energy can only be produced though the turning of a turbine, whether it be through wind or upwardly rising steam, a group of scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have found a previously undiscovered phenomenon that causes powerful waves of energy to shoot through miniscule wires known as Carbon Nanotubes.

In the experiments, the Carbon Nanotubes were coated in a highly reactive fuel, which produces heat during the process of decomposition.
This fuel was then ignited at one end by a high powered laser beam, and the resulting reaction was a fast moving thermal wave travelling at a massive speed along the nanotube.
Heat from the fuel goes into the nanotube, travelling much faster than the fuel itself.
As the heat feeds back into the fuel coating, a thermal wave is created which is guided along the nanotube.
With a temperature of 3,000 Kelvin's, this ring of heat speeds along the tube 10,000 times faster than the normal spread of this chemical reaction. The heating produced by that combustion, it turns out, also pushes electrons along the tube, creating a substantial electrical current.

Could this current be harvested or collected, then fed into the mains?
And is it reliable enough to produce enough energy to quench our ever-growing thirst for energy?

This field of science is still in its infancy and could be the breakthrough that the human race needs to continue harnessing the electrical energy that exists all around us.

I would like to thank the people at Science Daily.com for their original publication of this information.
And the people at MIT for discovering it.

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Professor Sugata Mitra and the Mayor of Gateshead

Informally chatting before their grilling at the hands of students from Ryton School.

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Billionaire Blunder!

A Mexican Billionaire has topped Microsoft word creator Bill Gates, making him the richest man in the world.

Carlos Slim Helu was declared the richest man in the world when he knocked Bill Gates, the past reigning richest man, off the top spot.
While Carlos has a net profit of $53.5 Billion dollars whereas Bill Gates only has a net profit of $53.0 billion dollars, thus making him second on the top 10 list of the richest men in the world.

Carlos is a self-made billionaire, and he is a Telecom buisnesman who pounced on Mexico's national telephone company in the 1990's. He became world's richest man when his net profit rose up $18.5 billion, and the previous year he made $53.5 billion dollars. Carlos is the richest person for first time after coming in third place last year. His net profit is 500,000 dollars ahead of Bill Gates.

However, it is not all good news for Carlos as he is reciving lots of critisisim. His rising fortune has caused a controversy because his fortune was made in a country where 17% of the population lives in poverty. Telmex, which is 49.1% owned by Carlos and his family, charges the highest usage fees in the world, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
But this critisism is not affecting Carlos as he said "When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered." He also quoted "The stock market goes up ... and down," and noted that his fortune could quickly drop."

There is no predictability in the fall and drop of profits.Carlos could remain the richest man for a while but no one can be 100% sure.Mabe another person will come in to the

By Sophie & Jennifer.

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Barton on way the back

Joey Barton is on the come back trail after playing 45 minutes of behind closed-doors friendly's.

England international and Newcastle star has been watching from the sidelines for six months due to a broken bone in his foot at the 3-1 victory over Plymouth. The 27 year-old played in a in the first half of a 4-1 victory over Hibernian at the Magpies' Darsley Park training headquarters as he attempts to regain full fitness for what remains of his side's Championship promotion push.

Manager Chris Hughton was on hand to watch the midfielder, who has made just six senior appearances this season,

Barton was Sam Allardyces second signing as manager of Newcastle united in July 14 2007 when the huyton born schemer put pen to paper he signed a five year deal for a fee of 5.8 million.

In 2009 Birmingham city were going to take the 5.8 million stars away from st James on a season long loan.

After Kevin keagan was sacked the star admitted he wanted to stay at the club but feared he might have to leave if legend Alan Shearer was elected to be next manager.

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