I was looking on the Internet this week, andeven thought it may not be the most serious story that i came across, itcertainly caught my eye.

The sub heading read: Always Underfoot: Cats and Dogs Cause 86,000 Falls a Year

And apparently this is true. Based on data collected for 2001through 2006 by emergency departments in 66 hospitals in the U.S., the CDCestimates that more than 86,000 fall injuries a year are associated with cats ordogs. That amounts toclose to 30 cases of pet-related fall injuries each year per 100,000 people.Looking more into this article, i think its hard to believe that your cute,innocent pet at home could one day potentially cause serious injury....if itgoes abit wild!Another fact stated: Women, children under 14, andseniors over 65 are especially at risk. The highest rate of injuries occurredamong people older than 75, who most frequently suffered a fracture. With olderpeople, hip fractures are especially a concern as they can result in disability,nursing home admission, and increased mortality.

Basically i just thought this was a good little fact to know, and it put a smile on my faceas i am a cat owner myself; so i certainly will be a bit more careful when my cats are running around and i will let them walk down the stairs before me, in the future.

When i was looking through a newspaper, i came across the article about teenage abortions. Below is an extract from the article, which i have edited and cut down a bit, just so you can get the facts.

ABORTION ADS ON THE TELEVISION...

As teenage pregnancies soar, the governments answer?...Commercials for clinics and condoms on prime-time TV.

Recently Abortion clinics are to be allowed to advertise on television and radio for the first time. Also adverts for contraception will be permitted to broadcast advertisements at any time of the day or night. At this moment in time these types of adverts have been banned from advertising before the 9pm water shed except on channel 4, where the cut off time is 7.30pm.
The watchdog claims it is responding to government calls for action to combat the rising teenage pregnancy. But its plans were furiously criticised by family campaigners and MPs; saying the television adverts for abortion clinics will only lead to more interest among young people.
Even though there are letting more adverts to been shown more frequently to keep getting the message of safe sex across, there are still restriction. one of them is advertisements for contraception will not be allowed to be shown during breaks in programmes designed for children under ten.

I have to say i agree with parts of the article; but will these methods actually work?

For some, maybe; but i know for sure that when girls have something stuck in their mind that they want to achieve... they will do what the can to get it done!

Extract from Daily Mail website: www.dailymail.co.uk

As this is my first blog on hard news, i thought it would be good to write something that i can actually relate to in some way.I found this article, and realised that i had seen the programme that it was shown on.

TEACHER WHO FILMED ROWDY PUPILS FOR TV IS SUSPENDED...

A teacher who filmed shocking scenes of pupils misbehaving for a TV documentary was found guilty of unprofessional conduct and suspend for a year on the 25th March 2009.Alex Dolan took work as a supply teacher and used a hidden camera to film life at four secondary schools whilst working in London and Leeds. The footage that she had captured, was then aired on the Channel 4's Dispatches programme in July 2005; the footage showed children fighting, refusing to do work and one school trying to hide staffing problems from ofsted. The General Teaching council conduct committee ruled the science teacher breached the trust of pupils and abused her position.Speaking after the hearing, 33 year old Miss Dolan said, she acted 'in the wider interest of the public, by exposing the extent of, the damage done by poor discipline in many classrooms.Although Miss Dolan may stand by what she has done, to let the public know the truth; the panel which sat in Birmingham said the public interest issues in the footage did not justify using covert filming.

My opinions on this are... i think it's wrong what she has done, but i think in some ways it good to how schools and colleges work behind closed doors.

Extracts from: Thursday 26th March edition, of the Daily Mail.