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"Spiderman" saves boy from fall

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Source: You Tube (BBC News) Key Words: spiderman Mailian Paris Paris balcony boy family thank Mali 'Spiderman' Mamoudou Gassama The family of a small boy dramatically rescued after dangl ing from a balcony in Paris, France have expressed their thanks to the Malian man who saved him. "He's truly a hero," the boy's grandmother said of migrant Mamoudou Gassama, who scaled four floors to pluck the child from danger. The four-year-old's father, who had left him in their flat and gone shopp ing , faces charges of failing to look after his child, reports say. Mr Gassama will be given citizenship . French President Emmanuel Macron personally thanked him, gave him a medal for courage and said he would also be offered a role in the fire service. More details have begun to emerge of the circumstances surrounding the incident. Why was the boy on the balcony? The boy left RĂ©union, where his mother and grandmother live, about three week

£10,000 for every 25-year-old

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Source: Helena Lopes en Unsplash Give millennials £10,000 each to tackle generation gap, says think tank Resolution Foundation proposes ‘citizen’s inheritance ’ to help redistribute wealth to young Every person in Britain should receive £10,000 when they turn 25 to help fix the “broken” inter-generational contract between millennials and baby boomers , an influential think tank has proposed following a two-year study. The payment, described as a “citizen’s inheritance”, is intended to redistribute wealth at a time when young people need it most to find housing, return to education or start a business. It is also intended to reduce resentment towards baby boomers (born 1946-65) who have typically done better out of the housing market and pensions than any subsequent generation. The idea has emerged from the Resolution Foundation’s inter-generational commission, which has been working on the issue for two years and has now published its final report. The panel was ch

Run, run, run!

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Source: Wikimedia (Ed Yourdon) Phrasal Verbs with run : run around: to be very busy doing a lot of things eg I'm exhausted. I've been running around all day. run away : to leave a place suddenly and secretly Some teenagers run away from home when they are unhappy. run stg by sb: to tell stg to sb Can you run that by me again? I'm not sure that I have fully understood. run into sb: to meet sb by chance I ran into my boss on the High Street at the weekend. run into stg: to experience something unexpectedly The company ran into problems and had to rethink their strategy. run out (of stg): to finish, use or sell all of stg so that there is none left I ran out of time . I still had five or so questions to answer. run over - to hit and drive over sb or stg in a vehicle She was run over by a car, which then sped off. Running History: My first race was the 14km around Ciudad Universitaria in March 2015. I finished in 1h 16m 52s ; not a bad start