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Here’s to education: new UK study shows, kids believe Hitler coached Germany football team
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Nov
Children think Adolf Hitler coached Germany’s national football team and that the symbol of Remembrance Day is McDonald’s Golden Arches, a shocking study has found.
The astonishing results emerged from a study of 2,000 children between the ages of nine and 15 which tested them on their knowledge of facts of both world wars.
More than one in 20 thought Hitler managed Germany’s football team rather than the leader of the fascist Nazi Party.
Twelve per cent worryingly assumed McDonald’s Golden Arches was the symbol of Remembrance Day.
And 40 per cent didn’t even know that Remembrance Day falls on November 11th.
Some of the more disturbing results were that one in six children believed Auschwitz was a World War Two theme park.
Only half knew D-Day was the invasion of Normandy - a quarter believing it was ‘Dooms Day’ and one quarter thought a nuclear bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbour which spurred America’s involvement. The study was conducted by war veterans’ charity Erskine in the run up to Remembrance Day. This is a rather shocking result and should certainly stir up some controversy.
23
Oct
Four people have died of swine flu in the space of 24 hours as experts predict children will be hardest hit by the second surge of the pandemic. A teenager was among the latest deaths as new cases of swine flu almost doubled to reach 53,000 in the last week. The four people who died in the last 24 hours in Scotland were a 16-year-old boy, a 77-year-old man and two women aged 47 and 54. All of them had significant underlying health problems. The number of deaths of people in the UK suffering from swine flu has risen to 128, with 93 deaths in England, 21 in Scotland, eight in Northern Ireland and six in Wales.
27
Sep
Mobile phones and iPods that blast out music at ear-shattering levels are having their volumes turned down. The news that personal music players will be fitted with noise limiting controls will delight the parents of teenagers and anyone who likes to enjoy a train journey in peace. MP3 players such as iPods will have to be made with built-in limiters that restrict their decibel level, in a move designed to protect children and teenagers.
Two-thirds of users have the volume set too high, surveys show. The rules, to be announced next week by the EU, are intended to prevent millions going deaf and were prompted by repeated scientific studies revealing the danger of listening to blaring music. A safe level is below 80-85 decibels, according to campaigners, but some players blast out songs at up to 120 decibels.
14
Sep
Total Scum:
Killers dogs are being used to hunt down foxes in urban areas in a disturbing new ’sport’ branded ’sickening’ by animal rights campaigners.
The foxes targeted in Merseyside are those who have abandoned the countryside for the city in a desperate search for food.
The League Against Cruel Sports today branded the new wave of attacks as ‘absolutely horrendous’.
Police have revealed they are investigating reports of at least two killings in Liverpool.
The remains of two decapitated foxes have been found in in the city’s streets amid fears that the brutal gang may have carried out many more attacks which have gone unreported.
Residents say gang members travel to the city in white vans and unleash bloodthirsty dogs which hunt down and tear to pieces the foxes as they rummage for food near residential areas.
Lurchers, Staffordshire Bull terriers and Jack Russells are said to have been seen sprinting down their road chasing foxes.
After the animals are caught, their heads are removed and their bloody remains left by the roadside.
The gang members are believed to have been operating for the last three months in the Aigburth area of south Liverpool, Merseyside.
One stunned neighbour came across the remains of two beheaded foxes left bloodied and strewn on the ground.
And terrified residents say they now regularly hear the screams of dying foxes after an
apparent ‘kill’.
Fox hunting is considered a cruel and unnecessary sport by many people. It was banned in 2004 and should stay banned. As for these scumbags, it’s just another vile and disgusting example of what Britain has become. Naturally we’re all hoping the police will actually do something!