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    Best Books for ages 10-14 #1: Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)

    Winner of multiple awards including the 1999 ‘Newbery Medal’, ‘Holes’ tells the story of an overweight teenage boy named Stanley Yelnats, who always finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Convicted of a crime he did not commit, Stanley finds himself sent to the foreboding Camp Green Lake, where he has to […]
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    Total Beginners’ Recipes

    Photo credit Five essential cooking skills to master before you leave home Whether you’re heading to uni or to your own flat, a certain ability to feed yourself will undoubtedly come in useful! Here’s our list of bare minimum skills needed to make a handful of cheap, healthy, easy meals. If you can do it […]
  • Editorials

    Semicolon tattoos

    Photo credit A recent trend has emerged for tattoos of the semicolon (;). Started by the semicolon project back in 2013, the semicolon is taken as a symbol of continuing. Instead of ending a sentence, as you would with a full stop, the semi colon allows you to carry it on, usually in a different […]
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    Best Books for ages 10-14 #2: Matilda by Roald Dahl (1988)

    Matilda tells the story of a brilliantly intelligent young girl growing up in a family that doesn’t appreciate her. Matilda struggles to make herself heard by her parents, and her teacher, Miss Honey, wants to get her access to the work she needs to fulfil her educational needs. Funny and dark, Dahl’s sense of humour […]
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    Best Books for ages 10-14 #3: Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashares (2001)

    There are thousands of books about the friendships and romances of teenage girls, so it would have been impossible not to include one on this list. It’s a very important genre, speaking to many young people about the issues that define their lives at the time of reading. Of all the books that fit into […]
  • News

    Peanut Butter: Ten Ways To Use It

    Photo credit Peanut butter is AMAZING. It’s high in protein, but even higher in deliciousness. It’s vegan, so no need to worry about the ethical consideration, and filled with the nutrients we need, such as potassium, iron and magnesium. For most of us, however, the role of peanut butter never changes from that of a […]
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    Best Books for ages 10-14 #4: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)

    This book stands out from the rest of this list as it is not fiction, but in fact an autobiography. Anne Frank was a teenage girl living in a hidden attic during the Second World War. Along with her family, Anne Frank was Jewish and went into hiding from the Nazis in 1942. She was […]
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    Best Books for ages 10-14 #5: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (2000)

    This unusual American teen novel tells the story of ‘Stargirl’, a young teenager who refuses to answer to the name she was given at birth. Stargirl doesn’t care what her peers are doing, and instead focuses on helping other people and having fun. Told from the perspective of Leo, the more ordinary boy who falls […]
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    Books for ages 10-14 #6: ‘Skellig’ by David Almond

    There’s a lot of debate over whether this multi-award winning novel is a children’s book, or simply a book suitable for children. The protagonist, Michael, is a young boy who has just moved to a new house. His parents, preoccupied with the serious health problems of his new baby sister, leave him to his own […]
  • News

    Build and Protect

    Following the recent terrorist attack by a gunman on the beach resort of Sousse, the Tunisian government has announced its intentions to construct a wall along 100 miles of the Libyan border. Since the attack, in which thirty-eight people (including thirty British nationals) were killed, the country’s government has been in a state of emergency in response […]
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    Best Books for ages 10-14 #7: ‘The Hobbit’ by J R R Tolkien

    ‘The Hobbit’, prequel to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy – which also featured in our ‘Best of’ book series list! – is loved world-over by children and adults alike. It’s an adventure novel, telling the story of Bilbo Baggins, an unsuspecting hobbit (a race of very short people living in Middle-earth) who unwittingly ends […]
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    Books for ages 10-14 #8: ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott

    This book may seem like something of an anomaly. Written in 1868 when her publisher requested she write something popular for girls, Alcott originally resisted, but eventually accepted the idea, writing this semi-autobiographical account of her life growing up with three sisters. Achieving immediate commercial and popular success, the story has endured, and has since […]
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    Best Books for ages 10-14 #9: ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ by Michelle Magorian (1981)

    Often chosen as a book to study in early-secondary level English, ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ is the story of Willie Beech, an evacuee who finds himself living with a crusty old man in a country village. The tale of city meets country, and of a shy, mistreated little boy meeting someone set in his ways, is […]
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    Books for 10-14 #10: ‘Flour Babies’ by Anne Fine

    Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature, this short novel tells the story of Simon Martin and his class 4C as they prepare for the school science fair. As a class of underachievers, they are given the science project least likely to go wrong: nurturing ‘flour babies’, sacks of flour that they must take […]
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    Dursley-Potter Feud Explained

    Photo credit On Pottermore (J K Rowling’s Harry Potter companion website) this week, an explanation of the deep animosity between the Dursleys and the Potters has been published. The backstory tells of a restaurant visit for both couples – Harry’s parents, Lily and James Potter, and his aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley. The […]
  • Music

    Best songs from musicals

    Here at b**p we love a good musical. They make you laugh, they make you cry, but most importantly, they make you SING! Here are five of the best songs to get you out of your seat and singing your heart out. ‘Solidarity’ from Billy Elliot The musical is incredible, dealing with the political unrest […]
  • Movies

    Prehistoric History Made

    You can forget any super hero movies, you can forget fast cars and gigantic apes roaming the streets of Manhattan, the latest box office smash to take the most money ever globally in its first weekend goes to Jurassic World. The movie which features Chris Pratt took $511 million around the world this past weekend. […]
  • News

    Newcastle Gets New Manager

    Former England manager Steve McClaren has been appointed as the new head coach for Newcastle United. The 54 year old has turned the job down twice but has now signed a contract for three years which could get extended to eight years. John Carver who took over the role as head coach throughout the season […]
  • News

    New drinking laws in Magaluf take effect

    New drinking legislation, banning clubbers from taking their drinks with them when they leave bars, took effect this Tuesday, 9th June. The measures were put in place to try and clamp down on violence in the streets and other behaviour typically associated with binge drinking. Magaluf, a resort on the island of Majorca, has obtained […]
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    Ariana Grande – feminist icon?

    Photo Credit What is a feminist? If you believe the trolls in the comments section of the Daily Mail, a feminist is a hairy cow who hates men and deodorant in equal measure. If you look it up in a dictionary, however, you’d find that it’s actually someone – anyone! Man or woman! – who […]
  • Music

    Five amazing folk songs that are too fab to be forgotten

    Photo credit: Anthony Pepitone Here’s five of the best songs from that most neglected of genres, folk! Peggy Seeger – Gonna be an Engineer This original feminist anthem makes the listener laugh with the catchy lyrics about a tomboy-turned-engineer not content with the path laid out for her. Written in 1972, the themes of the […]
  • Sport

    FA Cup

    Arsenal secured a 4-0 win over Aston Villa in the FA Cup final. Arsenal are now the most successful club in the FA Cup History retaining the trophy for the second time marking Arsene Wenger’s 6th FA Cup, win making him the most successful manager in the competition history.     They are the first […]
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    Fourth Week Running

    OMI has topped the UK Singles Chart for the fourth week running with his summer track ‘Cheerleader.’ Only seven songs have reached the number one spot this year, meaning three weeks is the average time spent at number one. OMI had strong competition this week holding off second place competitors Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth […]
  • Music

    music video: California Roll

    The music video for Snoop Dogg’s latest single ‘California Roll’ has made its way onto the net. The single was released on May 5,2015 and serves as the third single from his 13th studio album and features vocals from the acclaimed Stevie Wonder  and singer/producer Pharrell Williams. The official video was directed by Warren Fu.
  • News

    music video: bad blood

    The new music video for Taylor Swift’s latest track ‘Bad Blood’ has been released which features American Hip-Hop artist Kendrick Lamar. The music video was directed by Joseph Kahn who also directed Taylor’s recent single ‘Blank Space.’ The video also features Ellen Pompeo, Mariska Hargitay, Jessica Alba, Karlie Kloss, Lena Dunham, Hailee Steinfeld, Kendrick Lamar, Paramore’s […]
  • News

    Second Week

    OMI has held onto the top spot for the second consecutive week with his single ‘Cheerleader.’ The single had more than 14,000 sales ahead of the Paul Walker tribute single ‘I’ll See You Again’ which is by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth. ‘Cheerleader’ was also the most streamed track of the week, amassing over 3.2 million listens. […]
  • News

    Exhausted!

    Singing sensation Sam Smith has had to cancel more shows after doctors have discovered bleeding due to a haemorrhage on his vocal cords. He has cancelled numerous shows in Japan and Manila and previously had to cancel half of his Australian tour. Sam is heading to the US to see a specialist regarding the problems […]
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    Royal Baby

    The Royal Baby was born on Saturday at 8.34am at St Mary’s Hospital, London, weighing 8lbs 3oz. There was speculation over whether the name Diana would be included in the Royal baby’s name and when the name of the fourth in line to throne was announced, the baby was indeed named with recognition to Diana, […]
  • News

    OMI Takes it

    OMI has topped the UK Singles Chart with his latest track ‘Cheerleader.’ ‘Cheerleader’ has knocked last weeks number one ‘See You Again’ off the top spot and has over took mid-week leader Carly Rae-Jepsen. The competition for the top spot was extremely close with ‘Cheerleader’ finishing with just over 1,000 combined chart sales ahead of […]
  • News

    FA Youth Cup Final

    Chelsea have beat Manchester City in the FA Youth Cup final to secure their fourth FA Youth Cup since 2010. The blue’s led 3-1 in the first leg at the Eithad Campus giving them a two goal advantage over City when it came to the second leg. Manchester pulled a goal back with a early […]
  • Music

    Cancelled!

    Sam Smith has had to cancel the remaining dates of the Australia leg of his world tour. The reason for this is down to ‘vocal’ exhaustion, which has seen the ‘Lay Me Down’ singer develop a haemorrhage on his vocal chords. Australian fans will be happy to know that Sam plans on rescheduling these dates […]
  • News

    Facebook Video Calling

    Facebook messenger now has video calling which is for anyone with smartphones, this includes IOS and Androids. Users in numerous countries including the UK and the US can now chat face to face over the Facebook. 600 million people use Facebook messenger every month meaning that Apples Facetime and Microsoft Skype now has serious competition.  […]
  • News

    Player’s Choice

    Chelsea’s midfielder Eden Hazard has been named Professional Footballers Association Player of the Year (PFA). Which is no surprise with the regular outstanding performance he has made this season. The 23 year old has scored 13 goals and made eight assists for his club in the Premier League.     He received the award at […]
  • News

    Three is the Magic Number

    JK Rowling has completed her third ‘adult’ novel under the alias of Robert Galbraith. The Scottish authoress is now focusing on books aimed at the older generation and has recently wrote a number of crime novels based around the character Cormoron Strike. This latest crime novel now completes the series, with Rowling finishing the novel […]
  • News

    New Music Video: Avril Lavigne

    Avril Lavigne has released the new music video for her new song ‘Fly.’ The new music video shows footage of athletes training for the Special Olympic World Games which will take place later this year. The song will not only support the Games it will also help raise money for The Avril Lavigne Foundation which […]
  • Music

    Album of the Day: The Black Album – Jay Z

    Picking just one Jay Z album for a die hard fan is a really hard job. It was a toss up between this, Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint all which feature in Jay’s own personal take on his top three. But it came down to memories for me and what each album evoked and being […]
  • News

    Album of the Day: Tapestry – Carole King

    For the last couple of weeks we have been focusing on songs of the day, from Sam Smith to Queen to Beyonce, the list has been rather diverse, but it is time to switch it up again. This week we are focusing on albums. And the reason we are doing that is because, I, the […]
  • News

    Vloggers turned to wax

    YouTube stars Zoella and Alfie Deyes had their first sitting on Monday for their wax doubles which will be joining the London wax attraction at Madame Tussauds later this year.   Zoella tweeted: “So @PointlessBlog & I have been asked to be made into wax figures for Madame Tussaudes! BEYOND EXCITED. Such a cool opportunity […]
  • Music

    Music Video: Mika

    Mika has premiered his new music video for his latest single ‘Last Party.’ He partnered up with his long time friend and fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh where they agreed on a black and white visual to promote the single. “This collaboration was born naturally and out of friendship,” said Mika. “Peter wanted to capture me […]
  • News

    Sneak Peek into Star Wars

    Footage from the latest Star Wars film ‘The Force Awakens’ has been released in a trailer at an official fan convention in California. The trailer includes a first glimpse of Han Solo who is played by actor Harrison Ford who last appeared in the film more than 30 years ago. This will be the seventh […]
  • News

    Video: Charles Hamilton

    Check out the new music video for Charles Hamilton’s ‘New York Raining’ featuring British singer song-writer Rita Ora below, which they  recently performed on the final episode of The Voice UK which saw Rita join the likes of will.i.am, Tom Jones and Ricky Wilson as a judge. Charles Hamilton took a break from music back in 2010 due […]
  • Music

    Video: Madonna

    The TV show which has swept the US by storm and is due to take on the UK later this spring, Empire, sees one of its leading stars Terrence Howard appear in Madonna’s latest visual  ‘Ghost Town’ taken from her recently released album Rebel Heart. The music video was directed by Swedish filmmaker Jonas Akerlund who has […]
  • Music

    Video: Mumford and Sons

    Mumford and Sons have released their new music video for their latest single ‘The Wolf’ which has been lifted from their upcoming album Wilder Mind.  Wilder Mind was produced by James Ford and will be released May 4. ‘The Wolf’ will be the follow up to 2012’s ‘Babel’ which reached number one in the UK […]
  • News

    Bye Bye Louis

    Louis Walsh has announced on Irish TV that he may not be returning this year for The X-Factor after being on the show for 11 years. The 62 year old, who has sat beside the likes of Nicole Scherzinger, Sharon Osbourne and Mel B on the cult TV show, has only won the show once since it […]
  • News

    Jess Holding On Tight

    Jess Glynne has topped the UK Singles Chart for the third week holding off Nick Jonas’ solo single ‘Jealous’ which has moved 111 spaces into second place. Years and Years  moved one place to third with their song ‘King’ which is the most streamed track of the week with over 1.87 million people listening to […]
  • Music

    Video: Sia

    Sia has premiered her new music video for ‘Big Girl Cry.’ The video for the song was released on Sia’s Vevo YouTube channel which features Dance Mom’s star Maddie Ziegler and was directed by Sia and Daniel Askill, with choreography by Ryan Heffington. The single was lifted from her sixth studio album 1000 Forms of […]
  • News

    BAFTA Nominees Announced

    Set to take place next month, on May 10th, the nominees for the House of Fraser BAFTA TV awards were announced today. No surprises to see the likes of James Nesbitt and Sherlock himself, Benedict Cumberbatch up for the Leading Actor award. Rather surprising to see the X-Factor without a nomination, perhaps Mr Cowell has […]
  • News

    Holding On

    Jess Glynne has secured the top spot on the UK Singles Chart for the second week with her song ‘Hold My Hand.’ The song earned combined chart sales of just over 80,000 as well as 1.6 million streams. Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran’s collaboration with Rudimental ‘Bloodstream’ climbs 24 places to number 2, finishing just 5,000 copies […]

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