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This blog has been created, by Mr O'Callaghan to share Geography online resources and websites with the Geography students of Kingdown Community School Warminster Wiltshire.
Half a million British expatriates living on Spain's Costa Blanca are to lose their right to free healthcare under a radical new law introduced by the provincial government.
The Spanish authorities say that providing for 500,000 Britons - most of whom are over 50 - and other European residents living in the Valencia region is placing an impossible burden on the country's health service.
The huge fashion store Primark sacked three of its suppliers last week after an investigation for the BBC's Panorama and The Observer uncovered children labouring in Indian refugee camps to produce some of its cheapest garments. Here we reveal the brutal reality of a supply chain that sees children as young as 11 sewing T-shirts which cost shoppers just a few pounds to buy on high streets across Britain. Watch the Panorama preview here
An interactive simulation designed to teach students about
natural resources and the issues surrounding globalisation
This site provides lots of different games, most of which are against the clock. The games revolve around locating places or features on maps. Most suitable for A,G&T students at KS3 or GCSE and A-Level students.Wide variety available
World Maps - click on the countries you want so they are shown on a world map
Mercer Consulting's annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28.
New York, London, and Paris are internationally renowned cities but consultants at Mercer Consulting have picked Zurich, Switzerland, as the best place to live in the company's annual survey.
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Consultants rated each city on a variety of factors including the level of traffic congestion, air quality, and personal safety reported by expatriates living in more than 600 cities worldwide. In the top 25, U.S. cities such as San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago were all edged out by Geneva, Switzerland, Vancouver, B.C., and Auckland, New Zealand. The highest-scoring U.S. city is Honolulu, which came in at No. 28.
The-World's-Best-Places-to-Live-2008: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
Global food crisis http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7432583.stm UN food response http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10926579 rising food prices http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/09/food.unitednations - global food crisis http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7284196.stm food facts http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/12/egypt.food http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/polit ics/the-other-global-crisis-rush-to-biofuels-is-driving-up-price-of-food-808138.html http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/events/gecafs-0408.php food stories http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7432972.stm rural people fight back in Lesotho