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Every two months the Forest Flava Press Gang, a group of 30 budding journalists picked from schools across the borough, write Youth Flash for the Waltham Forest Guardian. This month the subject is knife crime.
Dan »
Kalan »
Black dudes killing black dudes
Posted on 12:05pm Friday 24th October 2008
Before you indulge yourself in my article, please be very aware that I have not suffered in any shape or form from the strong, hard-hitting effect of black on black crime, but my peers and others around me have.
Emma »
No fear
Posted on 12:04pm Friday 24th October 2008
Another day, another sunrise, another sunset, another mother who will never see her baby again.
Indre »
Knife Crime Nonchalance
Posted on 11:43am Friday 24th October 2008
It's not that I don't care about knife crime and it's not that I don't believe it's not a big deal or a serious issue. But after it being talked about in school for about five years; it being talked about and seen on the streets, then coming home and seeing it on the news; I, along with most teens, just switch off.
Press Gang Opinon »
Press Gang views on child poverty
Posted on 11:32am Friday 8th August 2008
I was shocked that the recent murders happened so close to home. It’s getting to the point now where I feel my life is in jeopardy every time I step out of my front door! (Jacquie)
Nadim »
Time alone can make children even poorer
Posted on 11:19am Friday 8th August 2008
SOME kids don’t have enough money to enjoy the benefits of computer games, fashion or sports.
Isobel »
Learn value of saving, not spending
Posted on 11:10am Friday 8th August 2008
AN iPod here, a phone there. How about new shoes? Bags?
Dan »
The root causes of child poverty
Posted on 11:03am Friday 8th August 2008
MORE than 18,000 children in Waltham Forest live in poverty – that’s a staggering 40 per cent of the borough’s young population.
Naomi »
Men have called me mad
Posted on 6:30pm Wednesday 2nd April 2008
IT is so easy to imagine someone with a personality disorder as some snivelling relative of Gollum you should avoid like the plague just like it is simple to swear blind that England will win the next World Cup.
Rosie »
Alternative living!
Posted on 6:30pm Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Walking into my local doctor's surgery recently, I found myself embarrassed to admit to my very stern looking GP that I'd been having homeopathic treatment.
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