Saturday 18 April 2009

Modern day pirates




World leaders are increasingly concerned by pirates operating off the coast of Somalia, who have seized several ships recently, demanding ransom payments to free them. The BBC news website tell the story.

Tuesday 14 April 2009

Northern Lights

Year 7 Fantastic places

Monday 6 April 2009

Earthquake hits Italy









An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale has hit Italy. The earthquake struck at around 3.30am on 6th April 60 miles North west of Rome. The centre of the quake was in a city called L'Aquila. News reports are just coming in saying there are fatalities and over 100000 people will have to be evacuated.
More news here.