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Coastal View & Moor News Issue 19


Go ON – could you get more out of life online in 2012 ?


By Paul Davies Ben’s story I


was sitting in my friend’s house one day chatting when her grandson Ben, started to chat to me about having a newspaper.


I told Ben that we were always looking for stories and he told me he loved to write them. I suggested that he wrote a story for the paper and was surprised when a few months later I was presented with one. So, how could we resist publishing Ben’s story, just for you in Coastal View? You never know, this may be the fi rst of many and Ben may grow up to be a famous journalist or author.


It is our pleasure to be the fi rst to give Ben the chance to see his very own work in print.


The big hole in the ground by Ben Cavasi age 7


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t’s a New Year, and UK online centres like Destinations in Saltburn are setting people a new challenge – to celebrate the New Year with a New Online You!


Our new online campaign kicks off 23rd January and will run for four weeks, with Go ON activities taking pace at around 1,500 venues across England – including UK online centres, libraries and community centres.


More than 30 million of us use the internet everyday in the UK. More than half of all leisure travel is now booked online, 90% of all new jobs require basic internet skills and more than seven million jobs were posted online last year. But there are still 9.2 million adults in the UK who have never used the internet, and are missing out on the benefi ts, opportunities and savings it can provide. What’s more, the problem is worst for those already at a disadvantage. If you’re older, disabled or on a low income, you’re far more likely to be offl ine. If you’re one of those not yet online or who feel that you could be getting more out of computers and the internet, this could be the perfect opportunity to give it a go! The fact is that most people don’t use computers


and the internet for their own sake – they use them to do the things they do anyway, but more quickly, more cheaply and more often.


Whether you’re looking for a bargain or a new job, wanting to keep healthy or just wanting to stay in touch with family and friends or follow your favourite sport in this Olympic year, you could be getting more out of life online. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never even touched a computer before, or if you already know a little bit or are just not sure about them, with our free and easy computer courses, you can get to grips with computers and the internet at your own pace, and our friendly staff will be on hand to help along the way.


The Go ON get more out of life online campaign will be delivered in partnership with Race online 2012 partners including Jobcentre Plus and the BBC. It fi ts in with wider Go ON activities taking place this January, and with the BBC’s First Click campaign which also starts again in January. Visitors to Destinations can get the chance


to fi nd out how the internet could help them in everyday life – so give Sue or Paul a call on 01287 626432 or call in at Station Street Saltburn and see how you can get Online.


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ne day a girl called Sofi e saw a big house. She said: “I think it goes up to the clouds.” She was terrifi ed. “Gulping guts, that’s not a big building, it’s a palace!” Sofi e gasped:


“Hohooo, it says King and Queen.” She gasped again, ‘Royal Meal’ it said. “We are only over the road.”


In the distance she saw a building site and she also saw something she had never seen before – a crane. She stared at it and she was like a statue. “Oh my word,” she said.


Meanwhile, behind her, a crew was building something very strange. “What is that?” Sofi e said when she turned around. They were carrying a big television. Can you guess what they were building? Sofi e rushed into the house to tell her mum and dad. Then a digger came and the King and Queen had gone when Sofi e was looking the other way!


The demolition ball made a big pile of bricks all crack. Then the digger dug a big hole where the palace was and a man in a


helicopter came with a bucket full of water. Sofi e’s friends were out in Oliver’s back yard. She gasped in horror when she went round. Her friends came out and they gasped in horror too.


They rummaged and begged and prayed to fi nd the King and Queen.


Just then they heard a rattle in the bin. A baby fox popped up and lifted his paw and waved. He said: “Bye bye,” and lifted his paw and waved again. They said bye bye to the fox and started rummaging through the broken bricks and dust again. Then they heard a squeaking noise, Sofi e’s mum and dad gasped in horror and they started rummaging through the bricks and dust as well.


Then the neighbours came out and they screamed and rubbed their eyes tight. They couldn’t believe what was happening. They rushed as fast as lightening and started rummaging through the bricks and dust.


“Oh my,” said Sky, when she saw the man in the helicopter. He didn’t see all the neighbours, Sofi e, her mum and dad or her friends.


“Ohhohh,” said Max, “the man is going to drop the water on us.” It looked like a big big bucket. They ran and splash went the water. The man fl ew away in his helicopter. Then they heard a loud noise. It was sort of a musical instrument that Sofi e could hear. It was pretty loud. It was a parade. When they saw it they all ran fast and that was when the heard a chugga chug noise. It was the King and Queen. All at the same time they said “Phew.”


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