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Hi Everyone!
It’s not long until Christmas… and as a gift from me to you, I am giving you
the chance to win tickets to see Dick Whittington
at the Regent Theatre, Hanley!
There are lots of ideas for great things
to make, from yummy muffins, cool Christmas cards and you can also learn
how to body pop with George Sampson!
There have been some positive changes
with regard to protecting young people from tobacco marketing, so make
sure you are up to date with the latest news, by checking out the Health
Bill section in What’s Hot.
Until next time… merry Christmas and have a happy new year (and don’t
eat too many mince pies!)
What's hot?
Health Bill- new measures to protect you
After battling to get MP’s to support measures to protect young people from tobacco marketing, on 12 October 2009, the measures were passed in Parliament. Local MP Joan Walley spoke in Parliament in support of the measures, pointing out the high smoking rates in Stoke-on-Trent and suggested that the Government should do more to protect young people from smoking- so thank you and well done Ms Walley!
The measures around the Health Act 2009 were mainly around creating restrictions on how shops should display cigarettes behind the counter. Tobacco companies are well known for trying to target young people by using bright colours and fancy packaging, particularly as most adult smokers already know what brand they will chose before coming in to the shop.
Tobacco companies also need to target young people because they know that many of their adult smokers are dying from smoking-related illnesses, and they know they need to recruit new young smokers to keep them in business.
The Government also voted to ban cigarette vending machines, as these are often unsupervised and many children use them to regularly buy cigarettes underage. Hopefully these measures will help to stop tobacco companies being able to target you guys with marketing gimmicks, and take away the temptation of cigarettes on display for people trying to quit.
For more information, have a look on-
www.smokefreeaction.org.uk/get-involved
Do you and your family want to become fitter, healthier & happier?
Have a look at the free MEND programme (PDF). You need Acrobat Reader to be able to view this link. If you don't have it you can get it from here Download the latest version of Adobe Reader
Festive Christmas Things to do!
Impress your family and friends with fancy festive cranberry cupcakes-
www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter/thingstodo
/bakeit/cranberrymuffins
Strapped for cash? Why not personalise and print your own Christmas
cards?! Check these cute ones out….
www.activityvillage.co.uk/printable_
christmas_cards.htm
Want to impress your mates at your Christmas parties with some wicked
moves? You can learn to body pop with George Samson at the following
link….
www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter/
thingstodo/doit/georgesampsona
What's new?
The Competition is now closed
Congratulations to Charlotte Harper who won tickets to see Dick Whittington at the Regent Theatre.
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Game
Seen as it’s nearly Christmas, here are two cool games to play. Want to fire Santa out of a cannonball?! Play ‘Sleigh Shot’ for some fun winter gaming! www.miniclip.com/games/sleigh-shot/en
Or play ‘Snow Day’ where you have to keep it snowing to keep the schools
closed!
www.miniclip.com/games/snow-day/en
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