Media Summer work task 1

Politics
·      The Brexit referendum was first spoke about in February 2016 by David Cameron who was the prime minister at the time.
It was drawn up to finalise arguments over whether the British public wanted to stay in the European union or to leave. When the vote on the 23rd of June came to a finish it ended at a result of leave but only just with the majority of people in England and Wales voting to leave with the majority of Northern Ireland, Scotland and London voting to stay.
·      David Cameron was forced to resign on July 13th which after only being the Conservative leader for two days (July 11th) Theresa May stepped in becoming the second female prime minister in British history.
·      Theresa May triggered a general election on the 8th of June 2017 which resulted in a hung parliament where the Conservatives had 318 seats while Labour has 262 seats.

Royals

·      The British Monarch Queen Elizabeth turned 90 on April 21st, 2016.
·      Another historic event in royal history was the first royal wedding to a mixed-race woman whom was from America, the engagement was announced on November 27th, 2017.

Terrorism

·      June 16th, 2016- Jo Cox the Labour MP was brutally killed when she was due to hold a constituency surgery. This was due to her left side views which caused the far-right side attack.
·      March 22nd, 2017- An attack on the Westminster bridge that caused 6 deaths and 49 injuries after a van drove onto the pavement and ran down pedestrians.
·      May 22nd, 2017- In Manchester a suicide bomber killed 23 people, hospitalised 112 and injured over 800 at an Ariana Grande concert using a home-made nail bomb.
·      June 3rd, 2017- London Bridge and Borough market were attacked by terrorists who rammed into pedestrians and then got out and stabbed more people, these attacks were minutes after each other and 8 people died with 48 injured with all attackers killed on sight,
·      June 19th, 2017- A vehicle crashed into people near the Finsbury mosque and injured 8 people and killed 1.

Syrian War

·      In 2016 a total of 3800 Syrian immigrants fleeing from their war-stricken country lost their lives travelling from Syria to safer Europe over the Mediterranean.

UK Issues

·      January 12th, 2016- Thousands of doctors went on strike for the first time in 40 years which caused over 4,000 operations to be cancelled, this was one of many to follow protests about the hours junior doctors have to work.
·      July 3rd, 2016- Andy Murray won Wimbledon, the match was close and this win was massive for the whole country.
·      2016 to 2017- Football sex abuse scandals came to light about coaches sexually abusing young players which led to these coaches being convicted.
·      2016 to 2017- People who have been living in the country ever since the wind rush generation of migration were facing deportation and the whole country grouped together to fight this issue.
·      14th of June 2017- A tower block in Grenfell set alight and was the worst structural fire in the UK since 1988, 72 people lost their lives and it could have be avoided if shortcuts weren’t taken and the building was structurally sound.
·      July 28th, 2017- An 11-month-old boy died after a hospital turned his life support machine off despite his parents pleading for experimental surgery that may have saved him. The parents lost all their battles in court over the issue.
·      2016- The Rio Olympics showed success for the GB team after they won 67 medals which included many gold models.

Young Aggression

·      2016- There was a rise in acid attacks done by teenagers in Britain with London being the worst city for attacks.

Trump Election


·      On November 8th, 2016, Donald Trump became the US president which caused controversy due to the way he spoke quite openly about issues without thinking about backlash and the way he treated women meanwhile having no political past.

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