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10 August 2019•The Week Junior

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he site of Sutton Hoo,inS uffolk, hasrece ived a

£4 million makeover to improve theexperience

for visitors. Sutton Hoo is home to what isconsidered

to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries

ever made in the UK. Archaeology is th

of the past from things that people hav

left behind.

In 1939,ahuge burial shipwas

found at Sutton Hoo,thought to

be theresting placeofanAnglo-

Saxon king and all his treasure.

The discoverywasmade after the

owner of the land, EdithPerry,

noticedaseries of mysterious

mounds around her estate andcalled

in an archaeologist.

Beneath the moundswas

afull-sizeship.Ont he shipwasa

burial chamber filled with treasures, including

gold jewellery,silverwareand awarrior’shelmet.

Historians believe the chamberwasfor King

Raedwald, who ruled theregion of East Anglia.

The artefacts helped to improve our understanding

of 7thcentury England.

When the SecondWorld Warbroke out in 1939,

the items weretaken away for safekeeping. Some

arenow on display at the British Museum inLondon.

Sutton Hoowas iven to the NationalTrust in 1998

y that preserves special places).

rs wereable to visit the burial

but as the ship and treasures

renot there, some people found

e experiencedisappointing.

ikeHopwood, who worksfor the

ationalTrust, admitted that“the

word‘underwhelming’wasused

uite alot.”

Now,that’sall about to change.

ew features on the site include

plicas of the treasures, interactive

hibitions anda17-metre-high

observation tower.However,the flagship

featureisafull-sized sculptureoft he ship itself.

Standing at 27 metres long and four metres high,

it will be visible as soon as you arrive. Hopwood

says that this will allow visitors“to digest just how

remarkable this story is from the moment they set

foot on site.”

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T

he Liberal Democratcandidate, Jane Dodds, won

the Brecon and Radnorshireby-election inWales

on 1August.Aby-election happens whenaseat

(position) in the House ofCommons becomesvacant

between general elections (if, forexample,aMember

of Parliament (MP) steps down). Dodds won the seat

from theConservative MP Chris Davies. It now means

that Prime Minister Boris Johnson,aConservative,

has amajority of just one MP inParliament.

England’s rivers aretoo dirty

A

ninvestigation byTheTimesnewspaper has

revealed England’srivers aretoo dirty for

swimming. It is thought that 86% of England’s

riversfail to meet European Union (EU) cleanliness

standards for healthywater,and none of them are

testedregularly enough to be declared safe to swim.

The EU isagroup of 28countries that trade together

and follow the same rules. The investigation found

that one of the biggestcauses of pollution is sewage.

Speedy hen wins therace

J

ack Allsop-Smith and his hen,called Cooked It,

won theWorld Championship Hen RaceinBonsall,

Derbyshire, on3August.Cooked Itcompleted the

20-metresprint in 4.2 seconds, winning Allsop-Smith

his seventh trophy in eight years. Allsop-Smith, whose

hen beat othercompetitors including It’sNoYolk and

GreatEggspectations, toldTheTimesnewspaper,

“Most of my friends play video games... butIwould

rather spend time with my hens.”

World-famous burial site

given £4 million makeover

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The burial ship

at Sutton Hoo.

“Familyreunited withpython pulled from

Toronto sewer discovers it’s an impostor”CBCNEWS

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