Late afternoon on Saturday, 26th October, the Light Waves festival took over the high street of Sutton-on-Sea. The event, which involved a Fire Garden, Lantern Parades and much more, saw crowds of around fifteen hundred people from across the country- drawn in like moths to the light (which rather fittingly Continue Reading
WARREN PEACE
Watership Down: Richard Adam’s timeless classic, crafts a story through survival and freedom. British animated films were hard to come by in the 1970s. These films weren’t your typical animated Disney films – an adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and The Beatles Yellow Submarine – nor did they come Continue Reading
Bonnie Parker: Lover or Heartless Killer
Bonnie Parker, the infamous lover to Clyde Barrow, and member of the Barrow gang, went out in a blaze of glory on 23rd of May 1934. Though painted by American Media at the time as a ruthless criminal, was this the case, or was she just blindly in love. Bonnie Continue Reading
Michael Rosen EXCLUSIVE interview
The Young Journalist Academy was given the exclusive opportunity to interview Michael Rosen about his book ‘The Missing’ and find out about the creation of the book and the stories behind it. Michael was appearing in Newark as part of the 2024 Newark Book Festival. Our team of reporters headed Continue Reading
Is Difficulty Becoming a Gimmick in Gaming?
Difficulty in video games is often in the hands of the one playing. It has developed over time from the retrospectively challenging platformers and isometric 3D RPGs populating the market of the 80s and 90s, such as the Mega Man franchise or Final Fantasy III, that gave gaming a reputation Continue Reading
LIFE OF LANCELOT: DIVERSITY & STRUGGLES IN LINCOLNSHIRE – CONTRAST FROM THEN AND NOW
Lancelot McFayden. Smithville, Jamaica to Boston, Lincolnshire. A young boy from Jamaica, who left his Caribbean home in 1944 to assist the ‘Mother Country’, was welcomed to the UK with open arms after being encouraged to help the war effort. But as the times have changed, many views have also Continue Reading
Criminal behaviour and mental illness: a closer look
A complex relationship We all know that criminality is a way of life for some individuals and is normalised for them. Many factors contribute to criminality, such as peer pressure, social and economic inequality, adrenaline and observational learning. However, these factors can easily be looked into, and the psychology behind Continue Reading
Ralph Ottey: The desire to join.
In 1942, 19-year-old Ralph Ottey came from the Caribbean to join the Royal Air Force (RAF) and became part of the World War 2 Dam Busters. What inspired him to get on that ship to fight for Britain? Ralph was raised by his grandparents in Little London (Jamaica). He was Continue Reading
Sidney McFarlane MBE
Mr Sidney McFarlane, a father of three, a trained engineer with a British firm, had been brave enough to come to England from Jamaica in 1955. He was one of thousands of Caribbean people who answered the ‘Mother Country’s’ call for assistance during and after the Second World War. Once Continue Reading
Are microtransactions ruining gaming?
Microtransactions are a relatively new phenomenon in the gaming industry. Nowadays, almost every triple-A title implements them in some way, which begs the question: Are they ruining gaming? The history of microtransactions is riddled with controversy. The first official microtransaction—when Bethesda released the Horse Armour DLC for The Elder Scrolls Continue Reading