Race for Life Dates Announced
THE Race For Life dates have been announced. Earlier than last year, Southend-On-Sea will be the first this year on the 8th of May. To find out when and where your nearest Race for Life is happening, and to find out how to take part, visit www.raceforlife.org.
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Monday, 13 December 2010
Newspaper Article 2
Braintree introduces free parking
According to numerous store managers, sales had been at a low during the week due to them having to pay to park. Customers gradually became weekend shoppers so that they could park for free. But now, the council are planning on bringing in free parking to the town centre during the week.
According to numerous store managers, sales had been at a low during the week due to them having to pay to park. Customers gradually became weekend shoppers so that they could park for free. But now, the council are planning on bringing in free parking to the town centre during the week.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Newspaper Article 1
TEEN HAVING TRIPLETS
SEVENTEEN YEAR-OLD Martyna Broad, Braintree, has always achieved well. Just a few months into her A levels, she fell pregnant. With triplets. Martyna was previously studying four A-levels, but due to the news of her pregnancy, she has already dropped out from one, and is worried that she might have to drop out of Sixth Form all together.
Martyna’s situation appears to no longer to be a rare occurrence. Teens in the U.K, Essex in particular are falling pregnant. It seems that they are either not interested in contraception, or is just doesn’t cross their mind. A total of 41,325 women under 18 fell pregnant in 2008, and it’s on the up. Of these teens, 49% of them had abortions, but it seems that they’re turning off from the idea of abortion, and on to the idea of raising a family. Martyna said “I just wouldn’t be able to live with myself knowing that I had an abortion”. Despite government pledges to lower the pregnancy rate in teenagers, it doesn’t seem to be having much effect.
Martyna is the second in her family to have a child under the age of 18. Her mum had her older sister at the age of sixteen. She also said that a friend of hers has already had an abortion and two girls in her year group had to drop out of Sixth Form because they fell pregnant.
Martyna considers herself to be “one of the lucky ones” as she has her boyfriend of seven months by her side and is ready to support her and their triplets. She said that she has also received tremendous support from her family and her friends.
An increasing number of teen mums have become single teen mums. It would seem that men, or boys, do not carry the same feeling of responsibility for their child that a woman does. It’s estimated a whopping 54% of teen mums become single mums with in the first sixteen months of pregnancy and having the child.
Martyna is four months into her pregnancy, and has been advised by her GP and many of her teachers, even the head of year to leave and debate taking a part time course at a local college after she has had her triplets. Despite this, Martyna is putting in all of her effort while she can and she believes that she will be able to pass her exams in the summer, but knows university is out of the question.
SEVENTEEN YEAR-OLD Martyna Broad, Braintree, has always achieved well. Just a few months into her A levels, she fell pregnant. With triplets. Martyna was previously studying four A-levels, but due to the news of her pregnancy, she has already dropped out from one, and is worried that she might have to drop out of Sixth Form all together.
Martyna’s situation appears to no longer to be a rare occurrence. Teens in the U.K, Essex in particular are falling pregnant. It seems that they are either not interested in contraception, or is just doesn’t cross their mind. A total of 41,325 women under 18 fell pregnant in 2008, and it’s on the up. Of these teens, 49% of them had abortions, but it seems that they’re turning off from the idea of abortion, and on to the idea of raising a family. Martyna said “I just wouldn’t be able to live with myself knowing that I had an abortion”. Despite government pledges to lower the pregnancy rate in teenagers, it doesn’t seem to be having much effect.
Martyna is the second in her family to have a child under the age of 18. Her mum had her older sister at the age of sixteen. She also said that a friend of hers has already had an abortion and two girls in her year group had to drop out of Sixth Form because they fell pregnant.
Martyna considers herself to be “one of the lucky ones” as she has her boyfriend of seven months by her side and is ready to support her and their triplets. She said that she has also received tremendous support from her family and her friends.
An increasing number of teen mums have become single teen mums. It would seem that men, or boys, do not carry the same feeling of responsibility for their child that a woman does. It’s estimated a whopping 54% of teen mums become single mums with in the first sixteen months of pregnancy and having the child.
Martyna is four months into her pregnancy, and has been advised by her GP and many of her teachers, even the head of year to leave and debate taking a part time course at a local college after she has had her triplets. Despite this, Martyna is putting in all of her effort while she can and she believes that she will be able to pass her exams in the summer, but knows university is out of the question.
Out of the three photographs above, I have chosen to use the third. I feel that the first looks slightly comedic, and I don't think that this kind of photograph would appear in a newspaper. It was a difficult choice between the 2nd and 3rd, but I feel that the second doesn't highlight her pregnancy as much as the third does, I also think that even though Martyna is not looking at the camera in either of them, the third looks better because we can see her face from the side aswell as her whole body, whereas in the second she is looking down and the reader can not see any part of her face.I chose to take a medium shot of Martyna for this story because I felt that having a profile shot would be unnecessary as the story is focused on her pregnancy. A long shot would have also not put enough emphasis on the fact that she is pregnant. It would display too much background and the reader may be more attracted by what's happening around her.
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