Bea's Page

Housing benefits is a system of assisting those who are either on low income or on benefits with their rent. Shelter Cymru estimate that at least 50,000 people experience homelessness in Wales every year. The number of househo

Like some other fellow bloggers, my favourite part of Rodney Pinder's talk was when he finished giving us all the death toll figures and moved on to his personal experiences. Such as running away from machine gun wielding africans whilst trying to move a heavy colleague suffering a heart attack to get the first story on the mass killings in Matabeleland. Which he got.

It is stories like that that we student journalists crave, we want to be reminded of why we are sitting through lecture

The role of newspapers has changed. Richard Burton stated that newspapers are no longer vehicles of breaking news and have not been since the advent of 24 hour news. With news websites this has now been firmly cemented. However, Burton says we still trust newspapers and I agree. They are comforting in these times of ever changing content. I may get my breaking news from the BBC website, but if I am on a train and want to catch up on international affairs and day to day news I would rather rea

Like other lecturers before him, Kim Hollamby denied the notion t

Pete Clifton's lecture could have served to perpetuate the all pervasive view that the internet means power.

The BBC news website's ‘most popular stories now’ section is an example of the people's power to try and change the face of a lar