Parts of UK Flooded

Many people have had to leave their homes as there have been floods and hundreds of people have suffered from power cuts.

There were some areas that were badly affected. They were: Tayside, South-West England and East Anglia. Sadly a man died from the flood as he got stuck in his car when it got stuck under a bridge near Bristol. People in a hospice in Cumbria have had to be evacuated because a near by stream burst its bank and flooded. The water got into the hospices bedrooms and offices.

Forecasters have said that more rain is expected to be heading our way. However winds are causing problems as a roof was blown off a mosque, luckily no one was hurt. Asix meter wall fell and search dogs roamed about to see if anyone was trapped but thankfully no one was.Some roads have had to be closed and train lines have been closed due to the bad conditions.

There are more than 100 flood warnings across England, Wales and Scotland as of Friday morning.

Most of them are in South-West England and the Midlands.

One Direction UK Single and Album Charts

1D's second hit 'Little Things' is the number one single in the UK, and their album 'Take Me Home' is their first album to hit the spot. One Direction beat Bruno Mars and they beat Little Mix to the top spot of the singles chart on the night.

Bruno Mars came second with his hit song 'Locked Out of Heaven' and Little Mix came third with their song 'DNA.'

Ed Sheeran wrote One Direction's hit single 'Little Things'. In this week's chart Ed Sheeran's single 'Give Me Love' came 18th in the charts. However Robbie Williams topped the charts last week but he moved to number five and out of the top five singles run down.
 

Apple's Friday Shopping Event

Apple have revealed that there will be a one-day only shopping event on Black Friday, the 23rd of November. This will draw a lot of customers into Apple's stores and sales will hopefully increase; many people think that prices will be lowered, however, this may just be an untrue rumour. According to the latest statistics, Apple stores generate more sales than any other shopping chain in the world.

Most shops in malls open at midnight on Black Friday, but Apple say that theirs won't. This means that the shops will be very crowded, but will generate a lot of sales. If you want to do your Christmas shop at Apple, Friday is the best day for it and the prices may be lower.

Great Success For Children In Need

BBC Children in Need is the BBC's UK charity. Since 1980 it has raised over £600 million to change the lives of disabled children and young people in the UK. One of the highlights is an annual telethon, held in November and shown on BBC One and BBC One HD from 7:30pm until 2am. Pudsey Bear is the Children in Need's mascot. The 2012 appeal took place on Friday the 16^th of November.

Children In Need has been a huge success this year with millions of pounds raised. The amazing and inspiring show was presented by Tess Daly (Strictly Come Dancing presenter), Radio DJ Sir Terry Wogan and Fearne Cotton (top telly host). Also top pop groups One Direction, Girls Aloud and Little Mix were on hand to perform for the public.

Throughout the show some special faces were also spotted on the stage... Olympic and Paralympic stars and Doctor Who himself, and loads more people too!

The Children In Need boss David Ramsden described the entire experience as “phenomenal”. David said: “It is amazing that people across the UK have once again come together to raise much a massive sum.” “Thank you so much for helping to change thousands of young lives across the UK”.  

Also to top this all off, stars from the Olympic and Paralympic team produced a video to celebrate Children In Need. Watch the video below to see what they made...

Kids Call For A Lower Speed Limit

Some of us complain that the speed limits around neighbourhoods are too low and need to be upped. However a whole bunch of kids have helped a charity campaign about reducing the speed limit from 30mph to 20mph!

It all started when a road safety group called “Brake” spoke to 8,000 kids about the speed limit in their area where they live. Amazingly the results showed that more than half of the 8,000 children who they spoke to said that they wanted to lower the speed limits near housing and schools.

Nick Bratty from the charity said: “The reason for that is we know that drivers are much more likely to be able to stop in time, rather than hit something, and react to something that they’re not expecting if they’re travelling at 20mph rather than 30mph.”

But how do you feel about this? Would you want the speed limit to drop from 30mph to 20mph where you live? To be honest I think that it is fine as it is, there have been no incidents that I know of around where I live. What about you?

Apple Approved 1 Million Apps

Apple's App Store is full of great apps and games, used for both entertainment and education; the best thing is that most of them are free. Up until today the tech giants have approved over one million apps for the store, 158,848 of these were gaming apps, 493,298 app submissions were made for paid apps. More than 736,000 of these app submissions are now available in the App Store, many of the apps were taken down by the creators or because of copyright. Of course, without the developers Apple wouldn't have achieved such a high number so quickly, they have been at it since 2008, a year later after the first iPhone was released. In 2009 the number of apps in the App Store was roughly about 100,000.

Google have passed the 700,000 mark last month, putting them in line with Apple. In the App Store, 250,000 apps have been developed and approved for the iPad itself, which is a staggering amount. Apple have been growing and growing over the last couple of years, gathering more interest from the public and manufacturing better products. Who knows what they'll be up to in a few years time?

Children Hiding Talent Because Of Bullying

Children are hiding their talents as they want to avoid being bullied. A survey was taken and it has shown that students aged 11-16 say that they don't show that they are good at anything as they don't want to be bullied. They think that they will be bullied for the things that they are good at. One in 10 said that they hide being good at science so that they don't get bullied too.