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Current Affairs Syrian Refugees Written By: Eddie Hodgkiss Refugees are evacuating Syria due to conflict. The refugees are evacuating to neighbouring...
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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!