When someone mentions October, we usually think of Halloween or the time of year when we begin to enter Autumn. But there’s another importance of our tenth calendar month – Black History Month. Black History Month highlights the history forgotten from our school textbooks and the significance of African, Asian, and Caribbean people. First celebrated […]
When lockdown started in March last year, we were restricted in more ways than one. Although staying at home was the safest option and helped save lives, you can’t deny the substantial impact COVID had on the live music sector as well as on our lives, those organisations and staff who support the musicians through […]
This week sport saw history made. As an individual studying PE as a GCSE subject, this moment struck a chord, even though tennis is not a personal interest. It was a time that struck the hearts of many in the nation, indeed the world. Emma Raducanu. A miraculous young woman made history this week by […]
I hate to bring up the topic in which has been on our minds, in our lives and on the news every single day, however I must address the very rumours that this ever present illness has presented… ‘Covid19 lies’, ‘COVID isn’t real’ I am speechless with some of the headlines of magazines, and topics […]
Currently, as I’m writing this, I’m on a Jet 2 plane on my way home from Portugal. A mask on my face, a window seat, my music in, the plane not even half full. I feel the most relaxed on holiday that I have ever felt. It’s summer, and everyone is either thinking of a […]
Participating in Youth Action, and starting the Your Voice, Your Vote ballot, highlighted issues for young people that are quite often overlooked. My series, throughout these two months, focuses on the main issues for young people in North East Lincolnshire, ways you can help and start these conversations with your children or even your grandchildren. […]
Our parents never discussed your thoughts on having a sibling, of how you’d feel growing up with, a sibling. Especially as the middle and youngest child, you are given no choice/ time to react to your siblings, they just are there. I had always wished for a sibling, specifically a sister, since the moment I […]
We all have experiences good and bad, that shape who we are today. The harder experiences are the more complex it takes to process in our brains, so to process and try and cope with these difficult times we may use humour. Now this isn’t a bad way of coping at all. In fact, it’s […]
This is an article written by Young Reporter Grace Trippitt to remember her experiences at the Manchester Arena terrorist attack in 2017. Article appeared in the Grimsby Telegraph on 22nd May 2021 here. My most difficult article by far to write. Thinking of the frame to present this in is far from easy. This is […]
Assumingly, the majority of people change the channel when Eurovision comes on your tv every springtime. Just hear me out, what if you didn’t pick up the remote and submerged yourself in all things European for a few hours. Now would that be so bad? The Eurovision Song Contest first aired in the UK around […]