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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/councils-issue-more-than-88m-worth-unauthorised-school-absence-jon-platt-term-time-holiday-fines-a7671076.html After checking all the statistics, the article shows a realistic view of the number of unauthorised absences within the 145 councils researched. The article gives a very details account to why there has been a change in policy towards … Continue reading →

This article was posted on the 27th March 2017 by the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39380529 A recent story in the news about a parent wanting to take their child on holiday during term-time has resulted in this article being published. The headline … Continue reading →

This article is fundamentally flawed on a number of counts. Firstly, the headline is grossly misleading as, where it states ‘mental health issues’, the findings actually found that the students had mental health ‘worries’ instead. This is important as the … Continue reading →

How I checked whether the report was accurate was by going on the website which they got their statistics from which was the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). When trying to look at whether 55-65 year olds had … Continue reading →

The story claims that, only 1 in 3 Americans are very happy according to the Harris poll. However it can be argued that this headline is misleading because it is based on people’s emotions which are relative and can change … Continue reading →

This headline starts by stating that the rate of teenage pregnancy has almost halved in the last eight years, therefore I thought this would be a good place for me to start as well. The headline was written from 2015 … Continue reading →

This story claims that flats built in London, will be 40% smaller than Travelodge rooms. The headline however does not state how many flats this Involves, and instead implies that it will be all new flats constructed within the capital. … Continue reading →

The story behind this headline is that when given the choice between either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton becoming president, more young Americans wanted a giant meteor to strike Earth on 8th November. The method used to collect this data … Continue reading →

Firstly “relationship” is not defined in the headline. Relationships could mean sexual, familial or Platonical. Different problems are likely to arrive when it comes to different types of relationships, for example, problems like AIDs are likely to affect a sexual … Continue reading →

New research on Brits and their feelings on a new bank holiday after the clock goes forward. They were asked about their feelings about the biannual change in time. And 60% of Brits get confused by this, they do not … Continue reading →