Wednesday, 17 October 2012

England World Cup Qualifier Stopped By Rain

Gary Neville on rain soaked pitch

Heavy rain stopped and cancelled the England vs Poland match because it had flooded the pitch and the ball would not bounce on it.

Despite FIFA saying that they would try there best to make the match go ahead it didn't and what made matters worse was that the match could have gone ahead if they had decided to close the roof.

England manager Roy Hodgson said; "It's going to need a lot of attention if it's going to be playable tomorrow afternoon."

The match is now to be played today at 4 o'clock, but people are worried that it won't be dry on-time.  

Atomic Bomb Site To Soon Be Open To Tourists

China officials have said that they are planning to turn an Atomic Bomb testing site into a tourist attraction.

China to open atomic bomb site for tourismAround 6m yuan, £595,000, is to be spent on the site in the northwest of China,  said Xinhau news agency. The project is to be carried out by the Beijing university, Tsinghua University, and the local government.Visitors will apparently be able to visit the laboratories and dormitories scientists used, while a 300-metre anti-air strike tunnel has also been earmarked for renovation and display.
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Officials say that the base in Malan will be a 'red tourism site' which are chosen by the Communist Party. The country has never detonated an atomic bomb in an attack.

My Trip To Media City UK

On Sunday the 14th me and my family went to Media City to be part of the audience for the new series of Sam And Marks Big Friday Wind Up.

To start off with we had to go to Media City and into the studios where they said that they wanted to get a shot of the audience outside, under the big screen where Sam and Mark would speak to us and tell us to go inside the studio because the show was about to start. It took a lot of practising and it was weird when people was watching us being filmed, but I think they all understood what we were doing.

After we did that we where seated inside the studio which was filled with wires and also television cameras. They didn't do it the way I had expected as they filmed the end first and the interview with the band. So after filming Sam and Mark, they did the introduction in which they ran down the stairs and on to the studio floor, this took several attempts as the first time Mark started laughing at his own jokes and on the second time Sam nearly fell down the stairs.

Because we went to see the last episode been filmed, Sam and Mark had to do a challenge at the end of the show, and that challenge was to walk on fire, but I can't give to much away because the show isn't due to come out until February 2012. Over all it wasn't what I expected at all but I still enjoyed it, even if I had to sit in a studio for 4 hours!

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

UK Top Ten- Tuesday 16th October 2012

1-Swedish House Mafia- Don't You Worry Child (feat John Martin)

2- Skyfall- Adele

3- PSY- Gangnam Style

4- Rhianna- Diamonds

5- Ellie Goulding- Anything Could Happen

6- One Direction- Live While We're Young

7- Leona Lewis - Trouble (feat Childish Gambino)

8- Conner Maynard - Turn Around (feat Ne-Yo)

9- Flo Rida- I Cry

10- The Script - Hall Of Fame (feat will.i.am)

Here's the link for the top 40 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles

The Planet PH1.

Astronomers have found a planet whose skies are illuminated by four different suns - the first known of its type.

The distant world orbits one pair of stars which have a second stellar pair revolving around them.

The discovery was made by volunteers using the Planethunters.org website along with a team from UK and US institutes; follow-up observations were made with the Keck Observatory.

A report on the Arxiv server has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal. The planet, located just under 5,000 light-years away, has been named PH1 after the Planet Hunters site.

It is thought to be a "gas giant" slightly larger than Neptune - more than six times the radius of the Earth.

"You don't have to go back too far before you would have got really good odds against one of these systems existing," Dr Chris Lintott, from the University of Oxford, told BBC News

It has 6 suns!

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Frog In Salad!




A live frog has been found in a salad bag, bought by a woman at a Hampshire supermarket.
 
Christina Carrington -50- started eating the salad and noticed halfway through that there was a frog inside. The palm-sized amphibian spent the Sunday night in Mrs Carrington’s fridge waiting to be discovered.
 
It was actually her daughter who found the green and brown frog in the Waitrose salad. Waitrose have apologised and are investigating.
 
Mrs Carrington was annoyed and said she had not been able to eat salad since.

Here are some quotes;
"You pay more for these prepared salads and trust they've been prepared properly," she said.

Waitrose said: "We are very sorry for the distress caused. We're investigating with our suppliers how this happened and taking steps to further minimise the chances of this happening again."

Monday, 15 October 2012

First-Time Sky-Diver 'Cheats Death'.

A university student has cheated death after his parachute failed to open on his first sky dive.

University student Liam Byrne, 18, was sent spiralling towads the ground from 3,200ft when his first parachute failed to fully open, and his reserve chute became tangled, after jumping solo from a plane at Peterlee Parachute Centre in County Durham: First-time skydiver cheats death after parachutes get tangled18 year-old Liam Byrne jumped from 3,2000ft above a parachute centre on Saturday evening where his parachute became twisted and he was ordered over radio to release his reserve. The reserve also got tangled which sent him spiralling to earth. Luckily Liam landed in a tree and the branches broke his fall. He was left hanging 30ft above ground until the fire brigade released him.

He said "I was really glad I didn't hit the church or fence below. I made sure I grabbed onto the tree so I was safe". The emergency services came 30 minutes afterwards.