Teenage shooting victim in East London

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7099383.ece

Agnes Sina-Inakoju, a 16 year old girl was shot in the neck in a chicken and pizza shop on Wednesday evening in Hoxton. She won a prize last year for Speak Out public speaking competition, where she talked about racism Today Agnes died of her injury in hospital. According to John Crossley, the Detective Chief Inspector, Agnes was not the target of the youth who shot her. Friends of the victims explained to the police and the paper that Agnes was well liked by everyone. While the police question if the shooting was gang related, a local pie shop owner explains that his son told him that gang confrontation has stepped up over the past months.


My opinion to this subject is, that it is shocking that we hear more of these shootings everywhere we go. Over the past few years, shooting has been in the news regularly. In London, many youths have been killed, whether they were a target or not. I find it ridiculous that you can’t walk the street in the evening without getting shot. What is more weird is that this girl was standing in a shop, so if the police believe that she wasn’t the target, who was? The article also talk about suspects of 14 and 18, which I hope can shed some light on the event that took place.

New leech species to attack noses

Scientists discovered a new leech species, which had been firstly discovered in Peru in 2007. The leech with one row of large teeth, was discovered when it had to be pulled out of a girl’s nose after bathing in a river in Peru. A doctor in Lima called Dr. Renzo Arauco-Brown who pulled the leech out of the girls nose, send it after preservation to the United States of America. According to scientific research it became clear that the leech prefers to live in body orifices of humans and animals. The name that it was given after research is the tyrant leech king, Tyrannobdella rex.
“The DNA analysis also revealed "evolutionary relationships" between leeches that now inhabit distant regions. This suggested that a common ancestor of this group may have lived when the continents were pressed together into a single land mass or supercontinent called Pangaea.” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8623332.stm)


My first reaction to this story is that it’s quite disgusting to find something like that up your nose. According to the website Plos one where I went to get some more detailed information on the subject, the leeches prefer to suck on human blood. The website also explains that there are several other leech species in Asia and Africa to have the same effect as this one. I was stunned when I read it was found up a girl’s nose. Though it is not a typical item that is found in the UK, I thought it was worth mentioning when I found it on the BBC website.

BBC website item: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8623332.stm
Additional information Plos one: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010057

Britain’s first campaign debate

Last night Britain’s first campaign debate took place and was broadcast live on ITV. Whereas Gordon Brown and David Cameron discussed domestic issues, Nick Clegg focussed on being the alternative the voters should choose for. Nick Clegg also made a clear distinction between his party, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives and Labour. During the debate Gordon Brown and David Cameron were in each other’s hair on several occasion in which Gordon Brown tried to win by involving Nick Clegg into the discussion. Based on the ideas that were discussed, the voters decided that Nick Clegg won the debate with 61 per cent, as he could tell the voters something new.

In my opinion Nick Clegg has a good chance of winning the election, as he could make some great changes in parliament. Also, the Labour and the Conservatives’s bickering during the debate without a clear outcome did not do them any good and it’s because of them that Nick Clegg had such a success. I think that a new parliament with fresh ideas might be on the way to achieve much greater things that the other two. After 65 years it is time to try another approach and it might be the Libdems that can get the country back on track.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7099159.ece