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A child's-eye view of T-Rex
A child's-eye view of T-Rex
CE reviewers get up close and personal with the world's most famous dinosaur, and wonder whether its savage reputation was justified.
 
A matter of belief
A matter of belief
Two teenagers tell a young reporter how faith healing has changed their lives - and try to justify their experiences.
 
A refuge from the bullies
A refuge from the bullies
10 year-old James sometimes feels like a prisoner in his own home - but at least he's safe behind his own front door.
 
Art as refuge
Art as refuge
Art can help us all see past labels like 'refugee' and 'asylum seeker' - and see 'human beings' instead.
 
Beam us up!
Beam us up!
Young reviewers find themselves transported into the twenty-fourth century on a visit to Star Trek - The Adventure in London's Hyde Park.
 
Children dealing with conflict
Children dealing with conflict
Teenagers can have some surprising views about how they think war with Iraq will reflect children and young people in Britain.
 
Children love to meet, but some want to veg out
Children love to meet, but some want to veg out
It's about time young vegetarians got more choice and better service from the high street fast food chains.
 
Children’s Art Day: The Design Museum
Children’s Art Day: The Design Museum
Visiting the first museum in the world devoted exclusively to 20th and 21st century design can be an eye-opening experience.
 
Children’s Art Day: The National Gallery
Children’s Art Day: The National Gallery
At the UK's premier art gallery, restoration experts are busy bring old paintings back to life for a new generation of visitors.
 
Children’s Art Day: The National Portrait Gallery
Children’s Art Day: The National Portrait Gallery
Famous and important people from down the centuries are immortalised here - but visiting was not at all the stuffy experience our young reviewers expected.
 
Childrens Art Day: The Royal Collection
Childrens Art Day: The Royal Collection
A behind the scenes look at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace reveals 400 years-worth of pleasant surprises.
 
Choosing the right man
Choosing the right man
A Young People's Advisory Board member tells Children's Express reporters how he helped to chose Northern Ireland's new Children's Commissioner.
 
Cole launches Gunners charity
Cole launches Gunners charity
Arsenal football star Ashley Cole talks exclusively to Children's Express about his club's support for ChildLine, the national helpline for young people.
 
Culture of conformity
Culture of conformity
15 year-old Daragh was beaten up for having his hair long, but is still willing to stand up for the right to be different.
 
Designing a year of ups and downs
Designing a year of ups and downs
Annual reports don't have to be dry, boring affairs. For 2003, Children's Express Belfast members have taken charge to make sure of it.
 
Diary of an Action Man - a review
Diary of an Action Man - a review
A new play for children combines humour with the more serious issues of growing up in a single parent family.
 
Discovering 'Discover'
Discovering 'Discover'
Museums are supposed to be boring places parents take their children so they can learn something. But two new exhibits in London aren't like that at all.
 
Girls... in their own words
Girls... in their own words
Children's Express reporters talk candidly about what it means to be a girl in the 21st Century.
 
Helping to read the vital signs...
Helping to read the vital signs...
Around one in five children and young people are thought to experience some kind of mental health problem, yet it remains a cruelly under-rated issue.
 
Including me
Including me
Young people with
disabilities hope a change in the law will finally put their education
on a level playing field with their peers.
 
Invisible Politics
Invisible Politics
Margaret Hodge defends Labour's policies affecting young people.
 
Is it a bird? Is it a whale? No, it's an extinct Concorde!
Is it a bird? Is it a whale? No, it's an extinct Concorde!
Children's Express reporters witness Concorde's last take off.
 
Junior Jury: ambitions
Junior Jury: ambitions
Teenagers about to enter the world of work discuss their hopes and dreams.
 
Junior Jury: coming to England
Junior Jury: coming to England
Some young new arrivals to England find living in a new country a liberating experience, even if they still miss their homes and families.
 
Junior Jury: coming to England 2
Junior Jury: coming to England 2
More new arrivals describe settling into life and school in England.
 
Junior Jury: highlights
Junior Jury: highlights
A selection of opinions from the long-running Children's Express opinion column.
 
Junior Jury: idols
Junior Jury: idols
Young people talk about the famous people who inspire and motivate them.
 
Junior Jury: Internet chatrooms
Junior Jury: Internet chatrooms
Children like chatting online - and say they're aware of the dangers, and the strategies they need to follow to keep safe.
 
Keeping a cool head in a crisis
Keeping a cool head in a crisis
values and religion, social affairs, family and relationships
 
Kelly's Heroes
Kelly's Heroes
Eastenders actress Brooke Kinsella talks about playing Kelly in one of Britain's best loved soaps.
 
Marching on
Marching on
Anti-war protests by children made headline news during the Iraq conflict, but did they mean anything?
 
Massive pop party went with a bang
Massive pop party went with a bang
Children's Express reviews a top line-up of musicians at POPfest 2003 in Belfast's Waterfront Hall.
 
Mayor listens to school students
Mayor listens to school students
Ken Livingston tells young Londoners he thinks they should have more of a say in the way their schools and colleges are run.
 
Ministers grilled by region's youngsters
Ministers grilled by region's youngsters
The Schools Standards Minister speaks to children about bullying, drugs and further education.
 
Pocket Rocket's ambition to be world champ began at 16
Pocket Rocket's ambition to be world champ began at 16
Belfast boxer Wayne McCullough talks about his journey from the Shankill to Las Vegas, and what motivated his success.
 
Project 13
Project 13
Young people across Belfast have been discovering new creative skills, thanks to a new outreach photography project run by members of Children's Express.
 
Project 13 - the exhibition
Project 13 - the exhibition
Young photographers trained by Children's Express journalists have been showcasing their favourite work about their communities at Belfast's Waterfront Hall.
 
Refugees: young people speak out
Refugees: young people speak out
What young people read, and what their parents tell them, affects their views of asylum seekers in the UK, but they can make their own minds up too.
 
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day
A member of the Sheffield bureau investigates what rememberence day means to people today.
 
Roots of Hip Hop revealed at Covent Garden's New Arts Venue
Roots of Hip Hop revealed at Covent Garden's New Arts Venue
Writers from Children's Express loosened their belts, spun their caps and freestyled their way across town to check out The Hospital's opening exhibition.
 
Safer routes to school
Safer routes to school
You can stop, look and listen all you want, say young pedestrians - the roads are still far too dangerous for children.
 
Swapping PlayStation for Politics
Swapping PlayStation for Politics
Two teenagers who fled persecution in their own countries have started helping other young people like them, through the international pressure group Amnesty International.
 
Targets for violence
Targets for violence
Pieter was persecuted in his native Czechoslovakia for being Romany. Fleeing to Britain has given him and his family a new start.
 
Teachers must love their work
Teachers must love their work
If all teachers really loved their jobs, there'd be no need for complicated education initiatives, tables and targets.
 
Thanks Mr Blair - but stop the war
Thanks Mr Blair - but stop the war
The Prime Minister dusted off his guitar
for a recent school photo opportunity - pupils at the school would rather
he left the instruments of warfare to rot.
 
The British Empire and Commonwealth museum a year on
The British Empire and Commonwealth museum a year on
Young visitors to one of Britain's newest exhibitions learn some uncomfortable but overdue lessons about their country's past.
 
The great uniform debate
The great uniform debate
Sex discrimination still rules in most schools - and the skirt v trousers debate is far more important than it looks.
 
The Kids Report: Clearwell Caves
The Kids Report: Clearwell Caves
For Museums and Galleries month, young journalists are enthralled by the lives of child labourers, discovered at Gloucestershire's Ancient Iron Mines.
 
The Kids Report: Getting in touch with the past
The Kids Report: Getting in touch with the past
An exhibition mounted for Museums and Galleries month is a uniquely interactive experience deserving a bigger scale.
 
The Kids Report: Hackney on film
The Kids Report: Hackney on film
For Museums and Galleries month, two young Londoners review an exhibition of silent black and white movies - and come away with mixed feelings.
 
The Kids Report: The nightmares of cartooning
The Kids Report: The nightmares of cartooning
During Museums and Galleries month, a talk about political cartooning for adults still contains much to inspire young reviewers from Children's Express.
 
The Kids Report: The Wedding
The Kids Report: The Wedding
For Museums and Galleries month, young reviewers discover a uniquely involving theatrical exhibit at the Ulster American Folk Museum.
 
The Meaning of Christmas...
The Meaning of Christmas...
Merry Christmas? Young non christians have mixed feelings about Christmas.
 
Through the eyes of children
Through the eyes of children
Children and teenagers who've been caught up in crime - one way or another - discuss the problem with young journalists.
 
Ulster beauty justifies trip to Nigeria
Ulster beauty justifies trip to Nigeria
Miss Northern Ireland explains why she went to Nigeria for last year's ill-fated Miss World competition, and destroys our reporter's model preconceptions.
 
Votes at 16
Votes at 16
Could lowering the voting age turn around youth apathy towards politics? Children's Express asks some young activists.
 
War - what is it good for?
War - what is it good for?
Children and teenagers in four different cities around the world are much in agreement - war with Iraq is not a good idea.
 
We get better A levels because we work harder
We get better A levels because we work harder
The arrival of AS results brings a predictable lament, but pupils themselves know the workload is getting harder, not easier.
 
Whatever you say
Whatever you say
Young people are more likely than any other age group to take their own lives - so why is no one talking to teenagers about suicide?
 
White Mischief
White Mischief
Young people of faith take their beliefs seriously - none more so than 14-year-old Nicolas, a committed pagan.
 
Why Don't We Celebrate Children's Day?
Why Don't We Celebrate Children's Day?
Universal Children's Day has never been celebrated in the UK. Why?
 
World View
World View
Disabled young people from all over the world have gathered in Wales to plan a manifesto of demands - now politicians and decision-makers had better take note.