2003

CE reviewers get up close and personal with the world's most famous dinosaur, and wonder whether its savage reputation was justified.

Two teenagers tell a young reporter how faith healing has changed their lives - and try to justify their experiences.

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 can help us all see past labels like 'refugee' and 'asylum seeker' - and see 'human beings' instead.

Young reviewers find themselves transported into the twenty-fourth century on a visit to Star Trek - The Adventure in London's Hyde Park.

Teenagers can have some surprising views about how they think war with Iraq will reflect children and young people in Britain.

It's about time young vegetarians got more choice and better service from the high street fast food chains.

Visiting the first museum in the world devoted exclusively to 20th and 21st century design can be an eye-opening experience.

At the UK's premier art gallery, restoration experts are busy bring old paintings back to life for a new generation of visitors.

Famous and important people from down the centuries are immortalised here - but visiting was not at all the stuffy experience our young reviewers expected.

A behind the scenes look at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace reveals 400 years-worth of pleasant surprises.

A Young People's Advisory Board member tells Children's Express reporters how he helped to chose Northern Ireland's new Children's Commissioner.

Arsenal football star Ashley Cole talks exclusively to Children's Express about his club's support for ChildLine, the national helpline for young people.

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.

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.

A new play for children combines humour with the more serious issues of growing up in a single parent family.

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.

Children's Express reporters talk candidly about what it means to be a girl in the 21st Century.

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.

Young people with
disabilities hope a change in the law will finally put their education
on a level playing field with their peers.

Margaret Hodge defends Labour's policies affecting young people.

Children's Express reporters witness Concorde's last take off.

Teenagers about to enter the world of work discuss their hopes and dreams.

Some young new arrivals to England find living in a new country a liberating experience, even if they still miss their homes and families.

More new arrivals describe settling into life and school in England.

A selection of opinions from the long-running Children's Express opinion column.

Young people talk about the famous people who inspire and motivate them.

Children like chatting online - and say they're aware of the dangers, and the strategies they need to follow to keep safe.

values and religion, social affairs, family and relationships

Eastenders actress Brooke Kinsella talks about playing Kelly in one of Britain's best loved soaps.

Anti-war protests by children made headline news during the Iraq conflict, but did they mean anything?

Children's Express reviews a top line-up of musicians at POPfest 2003 in Belfast's Waterfront Hall.

Ken Livingston tells young Londoners he thinks they should have more of a say in the way their schools and colleges are run.

The Schools Standards Minister speaks to children about bullying, drugs and further education.

Belfast boxer Wayne McCullough talks about his journey from the Shankill to Las Vegas, and what motivated his success.

Young people across Belfast have been discovering new creative skills, thanks to a new outreach photography project run by members of Children's Express.

Young photographers trained by Children's Express journalists have been showcasing their favourite work about their communities at Belfast's Waterfront Hall.

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.

A member of the Sheffield bureau investigates what rememberence day means to people today.

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.

You can stop, look and listen all you want, say young pedestrians - the roads are still far too dangerous for children.

Two teenagers who fled persecution in their own countries have started helping other young people like them, through the international pressure group Amnesty International.

Pieter was persecuted in his native Czechoslovakia for being Romany. Fleeing to Britain has given him and his family a new start.

If all teachers really loved their jobs, there'd be no need for complicated education initiatives, tables and targets.

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.

Young visitors to one of Britain's newest exhibitions learn some uncomfortable but overdue lessons about their country's past.

Sex discrimination still rules in most schools - and the skirt v trousers debate is far more important than it looks.

For Museums and Galleries month, young journalists are enthralled by the lives of child labourers, discovered at Gloucestershire's Ancient Iron Mines.

An exhibition mounted for Museums and Galleries month is a uniquely interactive experience deserving a bigger scale.

For Museums and Galleries month, two young Londoners review an exhibition of silent black and white movies - and come away with mixed feelings.

During Museums and Galleries month, a talk about political cartooning for adults still contains much to inspire young reviewers from Children's Express.

For Museums and Galleries month, young reviewers discover a uniquely involving theatrical exhibit at the Ulster American Folk Museum.

Merry Christmas? Young non christians have mixed feelings about Christmas.

Children and teenagers who've been caught up in crime - one way or another - discuss the problem with young journalists.

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.

Could lowering the voting age turn around youth apathy towards politics? Children's Express asks some young activists.

Children and teenagers in four different cities around the world are much in agreement - war with Iraq is not a good idea.

The arrival of AS results brings a predictable lament, but pupils themselves know the workload is getting harder, not easier.

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?

Young people of faith take their beliefs seriously - none more so than 14-year-old Nicolas, a committed pagan.

Universal Children's Day has never been celebrated in the UK. Why?

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.