The 2021 Future Journalist Awards were organised by Staffordshire University students
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Aspiring young reporters have been honoured at the 2021 Future Journalists Awards.
stealing $1 million out of schools schools. she operated a cash only line. she kept no record. she is suspected of taking about $500 a day, possibly for 15 or 20 years. watts lives in a 5,000 square foot home. she retired a year after a whistleblower went to authorities. former dallas cowboy josh kent has been convicted of intoxicated manslaughter for a man that kill ed his former player jerry brown. jurors saw evans, said he was partying with teammates before the crash. but brown s mother said she has forgiven him and will ask for leniency when sentencing hearings begin tomorrow. now to a dramatic rescue that happened in albuquerque, new mexico, this past sunday. police officers arrived at the scene after a woman crashed her car into a pole. the car was burning and the woman was unconscious. listen to the rescue captured on a camera. she stuck? yeah.
welcome back, everybody. one of the films generating some of the oz car buzz this year is 12 years a slave. it is up for nine academy awards including best film and best director. could put steve mcqueen on the map to be the first black director to take home an oscar. reporter: much of 12 years a slave s narrative and dialogue come directly from the memoir of of a series of southern slave owners, beginning in 1841. from the start, mcqueen knew who he wanted to play soloman north. i felt the responsibility of it. and i needed to kind of have a kind of moment to work out just how to get there. reporter: why did you have to have it? some kind of inherent, stature in him. he reminds me of harry belafonte, sidney poitier. there was a thing where you know this man, and he has a dignity in the environment which is to be humane, and for me he was the only one that had that quality. i survive! reporter: crushed by intolerable circumstance, he fights for more than