Police car turned spooky for Halloween

A Police car owned by Surrey Police has been re-decorated especially for Halloween and Bonfire Night. The patrol car was changed from its normal colours of blue and white to pumpkin orange. This is all part of an effort to stop anti-social behaviour on Halloween and Bonfire night. The car is decorated with ghosts and will be going round the county for the next fortnight.

Superintendent Colin Green is coordinating the operation on behalf of police, fire and trading standards. Shops that have been selling fireworks have also been reminded not to sell them to anyone under the age of eighteen. They have also been asked not to sell large amounts of flour or eggs to people who they think may use them to damage property. Will the plan to stop this bad behaviour work? We will hopefully be seeing how the plan works over the Next two weeks.

Jedward May not perform on X Factor

 

The two X Factor twins (John and Edward) have had to go to a clinic on Harley Street in London for sore throats and have now had treatment for them and might still be performing on tonight’s live show. This is because the doctor has said for them not to talk. They are planning to perform Queen’s We will rock you. Doctors say it isn’t swine flu. Fans have been turning up outside the X Factor house to see the two twins.

Simon Cowell said he will get the fastest plane out to the UK if the twins get the top spot. At the moment he is busy trying to defend Danyl Johnson after he was called a bully. Danyl was accused of picking on Stacey for leaving her son at home. She was called a bad mother. We aren’t sure whether the twins will perform but if they do it will be fun.

Pirate Bay faces possible shut down

A court in Stockholm in Sweden has ordered The Pirate Bay to pay fine or shut down. This is because of illegal file sharing on The Pirate Bay website. The website if they will have to pay 71,500 dollars. But the owners have left the country and are claiming that they are no longer in charge of the site. They have challenged the lawyers to prove that they are wrong. The owners had apparently previously considered leaving the country and setting up a shop in Argentina or Russia.

Pirate Bay admin claim that they don’t actually own the website. The website is apparently in the hands of a company called Reservella which is a company that no one knows who owns it. The Pirate Bay says that they sold off the company to reduce their legal risk. The site is already blocked by ISP’s in Denmark, Italy, Ireland, the UK, Mainland China and The Netherlands. So what will happen to the site? We will be keeping track of anything to do with this and will keep you updated when news comes in.

World’s Largest rubber band ball goes on display

The world’s largest rubber band ball goes on display soon and has been transported from it’s home to a museum in Florida where it will be displayed. The ball is 118kg and it has taken six years to complete the 2.1 meter tall ball. The owner of the ball said “It’s the world’s largest and the world record is going to be hard to break”. He was glad that it was going on display for everyone to see. He also said it was sad to see it go but it will be seen by lots of people.

The ball is made up of more than 300,000 bands and he plans on adding 2000 more. The ball will be on show at Ripley’s Believe it or not museum who are based in Orlando who are a museum that deals in bizarre events and items that are so strange that people have questioned whether they are real.

The former record holder was Steve Milton who lived in Eugene, Oregon. He created a 4,600 lb ball using 175,000 rubber bands. The ball of bands is now going to be on show at the museum but it will still be near enough for him to go and see it. Also it will now be seen by lots of other people which will maybe show that what some people think isn’t real can be possible!

School boy ordered to take his TV aerial down

Nicky Chamberlain who lives in London had a knock on his door from Government official asking him to take down his TV aerial. This is because his aerial is a booster aerial with a stronger signal. They explained it wasn’t a danger but for safety reasons they had to take it down. Nicky said he was frustrated because a man he hadn’t met before can tell him whether he can watch TV. He said he was quite annoyed when he found out. it was shocking to him as they have had that aerial a long time and it suddenly it causes problems for such giant things.

Ofcom (Office of Communications) said “This isn’t a common problem, but it does happen occasionally. The aerials are sometimes quite cheap or badly constructed and sometimes go wrong.”

According to Ofcom, pilots coming into land at the airport kept losing contact with the control tower because his aerial was transmitting on the same frequency as the cockpit radios. Pilots had to change the frequency quick to gain back communication with the control tower. The problem was first noticed on October 6^th when a plane’s flight path went over Nicky’s house and it lost contact while flying over the house. Nicky said he was upset but it was better than causing a plane to crash. Ofcom ordered them to dispose of the aerial in the bin.

This will leave Nicky having to try to get the remote from his brothers and sisters downstairs now. Hard luck Nicky.

John and Edward still in X Factor

Despite X Factor group John and Edward being unpopular with some people they are still in the competition and are the last remaining group. Some explanations for why people have voted for them are that they enjoy watching their fun performances, while others think people vote for them to keep them in so the judges get angry. On Saturday they performed She Bangs by Ricky Martin, The Judges said it was some performance and they are the luckiest brothers ever. They were also called two of the nicest kids Cheryl has ever met, she also said that they are becoming her guilty pleasure. Simon said he didn’t think he could do it anymore but gave them credit for putting on a show but when he thought of the competition being for singing he called it appalling. Though Louis said it was their best performance yet.

Ex-Busted singer James Bourne has said he wants to work with John and Edward after the X Factor has finished. He wrote on his twitter “I wanna write a smash for Jedward.” He then said “if you read this come and write with me!” He also said that if they did a song it would go to No.1. James had worked with X Factor contestant Eoghan Quigg on his song 28,000 Friends for his album. Worldwide that sold over 30,000. 

X Factor contestants record new charity single

The X Factor Final 12 will release a cover of Michael Jackson’s You are not alone for sick children. The money will go to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Although some acts have gone out already they will still be in it. The song will be performed on the results show on Sunday 15^th November and is released the next day. The song went to number one in 1995 and will hopefully get number one again.

Last years charity single was a cover of Mariah Carey’s Hero raised more than one million pounds for Help for Heroes and we hope it will do just as well this year. Louis Walsh said “I implore everyone to go out and buy it to help such a worthy cause.”

 

 

Above is a picture of them recording the single at Abbey Road Studios which was established in 1931 by the record company EMI. Artists such as Oasis, XTC and Green Day have recorded there but not just groups. Solo artists that have recorded there include Cliff Richard, Gnarls Barkley and Colbie Caillat and now X Factor contestants.

Heroes was also the fastest selling charity record in a decade so let’s see if this year we can break anymore records and by that I don’t mean the CDs with the song on. Keep checking back for more X Factor News and updates on the charity single!