The Friday Round-Up, Week 9

Hello and welcome to The Friday Round-Up!

In this week's news:

UK


NICK Clegg's plan to stop well-connected families monopolising internships has backfired after the Deputy Prime Minister admitted his father set up his gap year placement at a Finnish bank. It also emerged the Lib Dem leader had taken on unpaid interns.

Nick Clegg later announced that Lib Dem MPs must advertise internships openly to stop influential families from securing placements based on their contacts. The Deputy Prime Minister also banned his MPs from hiring interns without paying for their expenses.

OVER 60 schoolgirls were groomed for sex by a group of men in takeaway food shops in Blackpool.

World


ANTI-REGIME demonstrators in Syria were killed on Thursday after forces tried to break up the protest. At least a dozen died in the revolt, the largest since the rebellions began three weeks ago.


NATO "may have" killed five rebels in an air strike near Brega, a Libyan oil port. The military alliance have refused to apologise for the attack.


Also in the news...


PHILIP Larkin's poem came second in a poetry competition for a prison magazine when an inmate plagiarised his well-known poem, 'Talking in Bed.'




That's all from The Friday Round-Up this week! Check back next week for your bite size news update!

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