Little Mix talk to Newsround about X Factor life

You all know that the winner of X factor 2011 was Little Mix.
This group have had an interesting interveiw with Newsround.
What do you think life on the X Factor is like? A better question would be... What is X factor like when you're the first group to tip the 1st place? Well X factor winners, Leigh-Anne, Jesy, Jade and Perrie say that it has changed their lives so much being a popstar, to what they were doing before. Nel (the interveiwer) has also asked them what they don't like about being famous and being a popstar, I wonder what the answer will be...

102mph winds in Scotland!

This week has been horrendous for the wind in the UK! In Edinborough winds reached upto 102mph! Yesterday Sheffield had the worst of the night at 93mph. It is causing mass distruption through out the country. Tiles are falling off rooves and rooves are falling off altogether. Trees have lost all of their leaves and even their roots. In my opinion these are some of the worst winds Britain has experienced but there is still more to come...

Where's the snow gone for the UK?

Where has all the snow gone... I'm sure that we all exepected snow, seen as though we had a terrible winter last year!

But this year has been a HUGE shock to us all as most think that there isn't going to be any snow this year! A great dissapoint for us kids, but probably a huge relief for the adults!

Last year saw loads of families heading off tobogganing, skiing, snowboarding and loads more activities, as we all made good use of the weather. This year is a different story...

Now this year saw loads of people heading out to sports shops to get all their winter jackets, boots, gloves,hats, scarfs, sledges and many more winter items to prepare for the winter that we all thought was coming this year... However as we all got our hopes up for a snowy winter, as it got closer to Christmas we all were shaking our heads to whether it was going to snow this year or not.

Now its past Christmas and now into January 2012, and it still hasn't snowed for many parts of the UK. People now wonder if this is going to be one of those years where FOR ONCE! The UK is not going to be getting any snow at all for the entire winter! A shock for all!

By Emily Booker SLWA

Snake put on a diet!

When Australian python, named Atomic Betty reached a weight of approaching 135kg her zoo keepers began to get worried, she was gaining weight too fast so they needed to watch what she was eating and when she was eating it.

now the keepers at the Australian reptile park in Gosford, has put here on a diet limiting her to only three to four goats a year!

Betty usually swallows a goat in or about 1 hour though it takes one week to fully digest.

Betty was imported to the zoo at about 2001 from the US, and is now believed to be the biggest snake in the whole of Australia.

Despite measuring around 22ft Betty has still not reached her full length and has still around about 7 years to grow sevrel feet!

Happy New Year!

Well, it is now officially 2012 (unless you are Chinese). New year's resolutions have been made but does anybody actually stick to them? Is the temptation of chocolate too much? Besides - It is tradition to have some form of alcohol as the clock strikes 12, so will people fail before it has even begun? Probably. Also the fireworks scare dogs. So are these traditions all that great and realistic? Hong Kong spent over 4 million dollars on fireworks alone. More than most people's wages in their lifetime! Isn't that a bit extensive? What do you think of tradition?

Dancing on ice.

As you all know, Dancing on ice is starting again soon!
Hopefully there will be some familiar looking faces this year, unlike some last year.
These are the celebs who will be taking part...

Sam Nixon - CBBC Presenter

Mark Rhodes - CBBC Presenter
Andy Akinwolere - TV Presenter, used to presente Blue Peter
Heidi Range - Singer, in The Sugababes
Jennifer Ellison - Actress, used to be in the TV soap Brookside
Laila Morse - Actress, plays Mo Harris in Eastenders
Chesney Hawkes - Singer, had a big hit 20 years ago with The One and Only
Rosemary Conley - Health and fitness expert
Corey Feldman - Actor and Hollywood star of movies like The Goonies and Gremlins
Chemmy Alcott - Skiier, has taken part in three Winter Olympic Games
Andy Whyment - Actor, plays Kirk in Coronation Street
Sébastien Foucan - Invented an extreme sport called free running, or parcour
Matthew Wolfenden - Actor, plays David Metcalf in Emmerdale
Jorgie Porter - Actress, plays Theresa McQueen in Hollyoaks
Charlene Tilton - Actress, was in a famous American TV Series called 'Dallas'.

There may be a very big change this year because Christine Bleakley is going to be the presenter insted of Holly Willoughby! Also the entertainment starts on the 8th of January, so this is pretty soon. The program will be shown on  ITV1 at officially 6:30pm.

ring found on a carrot!!!

Lena had taken off her wedding ring before a Christmas baking session with her daughters in 1995, but it had disappeared from the kitchen side that she had put it on.

After that she searched with her family for the ring, and even pulled up some floor boards yo try and find the ring. Her family eventually gave up as they thought it had gone from the farm forever.

That was until October 2011 as when Lena was picking her freshly grown carrots from her garden, when on one of the carrots she noticed something around it... It was her white gold, diamond-encrusted ring.

She and her husband think that the ring had fallen in the potato peels that day and then feed to the sheep. As her compost uses composted vegetables and sheep dung.

Lena and her husband later quoted "We're keeping it in aa safe place"