A 14 year old girl was stabbed today near Ridgewood high school.  At 8:40am Chole West was stabbed by an assailant believed to be an 18 year old man.  The incident took place around park road west, Wollaston, on an incline leading up towards the school. A 15 year old male is believed to have been involved also, attempting to disrupt the attack. However while confronting the perpetrator, sustained an injury to his hand.

It has been confirmed that the alleged attacker has been detained for questioning, and no further injury was made to the young male teenager involved. Further measures have been taken, including police inquiry into the incident, speaking with associates, and witnesses regarding the dispute. The nearby school of Ridgewood has also been shut down for the day, while police begin their investigation .

The lacerations caused by the attack have been confirmed as critical, including a clean wound on the neck of the victim.  The dispatch for treatment was immediate, including assistance by West midlands air ambulance helicopter. The helicopters will then proceed to transport Chloe to be treated in Birmingham children’s hospital.

Cheif Inspector Mark Bramwell, has confirmed that while the investigation is still ongoing in its the early stages, the incident at hand is isolated from any matters involving the school itself, “A man  we believe is involved is currently in police custody and will be questioned accordingly”. No further announcements to Chloe west’s condition has been made at this time.

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Two Oxfordshire and Glasgow laboratories have confirmed that there are traces of radiated iodine 6000 miles as a result of from the recent explosions from the Nuclear power plant located in the Fukushima prefecture, after the March 11th earthquake.

Signs of problems were manifest from the outset of the natural disaster, as on   March 12^th, a series of fires and explosions sequentially affected four of the six boiling water reactors.

Dr Michael Clark, spokesman of the H.P.A released a statement that the radiation is at a “very low level of radioactivity”. He continued to state that the current known areas of iodine radiation are in Chilton, Oxfordshire, and Glasgow in Scotland.  The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency claim that the radiation deposits are very weak and are not concentrated enough to be a detriment to human health.

However recent discoveries show plutonium deposits in the soil in the vicinity of the powerplant and have been met with scrutiny. The half-life of plutonium is 24,000 years and while there is no surplus of the chemical, many worry that further complications in the plant, may result in excess deposits.

Japan’s nuclear and industrial safety agency (NISA) immediately responded to this inquiry and affirmed that such deposits are not dissimilar to radiation in the atmosphere, and therefore should be deemed harmless. With the degradation of the Power plant ongoing, there are no current reports on the likely hood of any further radioactive substances to be found on British shores in the immediate future.

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Disruptions in sleep of Students, particularly of the university level, have been a long known paradigm of the student life style which most see as a typical characteristic of youth.

However the underlining question is why does this lifestyle have such a correlation with Students of higher education?

On average a student habitually sleep for estimates of 6.8 hours a night, which may lead to problems in concentration, alertness, and the capacity of cognitive thinking.

Speculators suggest that because teenagers choose to live away from home, this gives them opportunities to remain awake for unpractical hours because of the absence of regulatory influences from family or legal guardians.

Others also attribute this peer pressure or “living the student life style” as an exponent for reasons why students allow little time for rest.

However some students have voiced this as crass generalisations of why students are developing erratic sleep patterns. Many contend that the level of stress and expectation for success is a factor that denies many students the required amount of sleep.

A student, Anna argues that “there are many different factors that really cause me to stay up as a relief from problems or because I just can’t physically sleep. Things like family trouble, debt problems with expenditures, pressure to achieve the highest results. These problems seem to pile up and give me little time to decompress. Such problems seem to overwhelm me, therefore I fixate on what I can’t do, and try to compensate by staying up”.

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