Tube strikes causing chaos

As the tube strikes continue for a second week, we see the stations piling up with angered people, waiting for an extensive amount of time, desperate to get to work. These strikes have lead to an unimaginable build up at the underground stations, to at some points it becoming dangerous as to how crowded they are. This week the strikes are going on from Tuesday 21st of June to Sunday 26th of June with no services before 8am and delays expected after this time. And the London Overground will run a reduced service ending at 6pm. Only 60 per cent of trains are going to be running, mainly due to a delay to the start of services because signallers and control room staff are not doing overnight shifts. Traffic on the roads is also being affected due to more people having to travel by car.

But why are these strikes so necessary? Train drivers have claimed proposals by bosses that they will cut jobs, change working agreements and pensions which they believe isn’t fair. However Boris Johnson has said he “will not give in to demands from rail unions so it is unlikely we will see a stop to these strikes for now.

Subsidiary story- Boris Johnson refuses to quit. The prime minister this week has said that he won’t resign even though the Conservatives battled to retain Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton, and it’s his responsibility. He said when questioned about his decision he said “Come on, it was only a year ago that we won the Hartlepool byelection, which everybody thought was – you know, we hadn’t won Hartlepool for – I can’t remember when the Tory party last won Hartlepool – a long time. I don’t think it ever had…

Title- Reckless Driver sent to prison for Speeding

A car driver has been sent to prison after cars were filmed speeding at over 90mph driving through country lanes in Jersey.

Jamie Williams (18) was locked up in prison for a total of six months, fined £700 and banned from driving for two years after being found guilty of aiding and abetting dangerous driving.

Williams, was arrested after the States police of Jersey received multiple reports of a number of vehicles driving over the speed limit on 21st May through the country lanes of Trinity and St Lawrence.

After extensive inquiries, Williams’ vehicle was identified and he was arrested.

There was Video footage obtained from the defendant’s phone and analysed by an expert, which showed that the vehicles were travelling at speeds in excess of 90mph on country lanes of just 20mph and 30mph speed limits. This suggests that Williams clearly thought that the Jersey road rules didn’t apply to him and that there wouldn’t be any consequences.

States police chief Harold Martin said: ‘We assume that islanders will be shocked and also concerned by the footage associated with this case. If someone had been coming in the opposite direction the outcome would have resulted in someone’s death or something very serious.’ He also stated that ‘The Jersey police department are all aware that the public might be wary of driving’

For my newspaper NEA I am going to produce the front cover of a local newspaper, called Island News, which will be aimed at an audience of all ages living in the region who are interested in national and international news stories as well as stories relating specifically to the local area.

In terms of layout and design, I am going to follow the style model of our CSP (The Daily Mail). This has a main image (half page) with two ‘plugs‘ or ‘ears‘ (ie headline stories from inside the paper), underneath a strapline for my paper. I will also have a masthead, barcode and other institutional details (time, date, price etc).

For my main story, I am going to write about a Driver being jailed after footage found by the police of them speeding at 80mph through lanes in Jersey, he was fined £570 and banned from driving for two years after being found guilty of aiding and abetting dangerous driving. For example, we have looked at the authoritarian v libertarian debate theory, this can be linked to my article as it can suggest that the driver is more libertarian due to the fact that he was not abiding the road rules of Jersey.

Underneath the main image, which will be of the driver, I will have the body article. I will have approximately 150-200 words which will form the main article and will be continued inside the paper) which will be set out in columns, with a drop cap on the first letter of the first word. I will also have a contents bar at the bottom of the newspaper.

Overall, the paper will be clean, contemporary and stylish