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** The very young Jane Grey became the new queen of England **  ** against her intention. Is this right, or should someone else take over as the new queen of England? ** Jane Grey is now the queen of England and she is just 15 years old. That she became the new queen of this incredible country shocks a lot of people because they think that she is far too young to be a queen. Therefore they also think that she won’t do a good job ruling this country. “Sharp and severe” are the words that Jane uses to describe how her parent were when she was younger. They had many big dreams for how Jane’s life was going to be, and who she should marry. Her parents hoped that she was going to marry her cousin King Edward VI and then become the new queen of England. There weren’t just her parents that were expecting Edward to marry Jane but also many other people in England. This didn’t happen because he wanted to marry the Queen of Scots, Mary, or some other foreign princess. Jane didn’t marry Edward, but she married Guilford Dudly. Nearly two months after the wedding her mother-in-law visited Jane and told her this; “ His Majesty have made you heir to his realm.” Just few days after her mother-in-law told her this, to be exactly three days, the great King Edward died. There are just some few weeks since the death of King Edward, and people are starting to talk about who they think the rightful inheritor is. The king himself wanted Jane to take over his realm when he died, and therefore is Jane the rightful heir. But the problem is that the biggest part of England thinks that Mary is the rightful to take over the throne, because she is King Edwards’s sister. Last Wednesday Jane Grey was announced as the new queen of England, but Jane didn’t want to become queen so when she understood that they was announcing her as the new queen she fell on the floor and fainted. After a little while she got on her feet and said, “The crown is not my right, and please me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir." The big question is now. Who is the rightful heir of the English throne? There is one very big part of the country that thinks the right thing to do is to make Mary the new queen of England, but the other part thinks that Jane is the right queen.      ** In one of the biggest textile factories in this country, a child has died again. Every year nearly thousand people die in different factory accidents. Since most of the people who work there are children, the deaths of children are extremely high. This has to stop! **   If you are walking in the streets of Blackburn, you can see a lot of people who are missing arms and legs. Not just adults are missing various parts of their body, but many children too. The reason for this is that there are a lot of people that are working in factories, and there are numerous of accidents that are happening in the factories these days. I’m now standing in the heart of the beautiful town Blackburn, outside one of the biggest factories in the whole country. Inside this factory a horrible accident happened again just 20 minutes ago. A little girl called Callie Archer was the victim in this terrible accident. Earlier today there was a problem with one of the machines in the textile factory; there was something stuck between two gear shafts. The problem was that they couldn’t stop the machine so they could take out the big nail that was stuck, because this is one of the machines that keep the whole factory running. One other problem was that a grown-up couldn’t take the big nail out when the machine was running, because the only way to reach out between the gear shafts was to climb over some pipes, and the pipes were not that big. The result was that a child was going to climb over the pipes while the machine was running, and this child was Callie. Callie was just small enough, and climbed over the pipes where the gear shafts had stopped. She got over the pipes and towards to the place in the machine where the problem was. Everybody were relieved when she got over the pipes because then they thought the danger was over. But, they didn’t think about that the big nail that was stuck wasn’t easy to get out from the two gear shafts. Callie reached her hand out and tried as hard as she could to get it out, but it wouldn’t undo. She tried one last time, and it was now everything went wrong. Callie got out of balance, and fell down in the machine. Callie Archer was a girl that didn’t make much noise and she didn’t have too many friends. She worked at the textile factory in Blackburn, where she died in an accident. Callie Archer became only 12 years old.
 * An unwanted throne **
 * Child dead in the textile factory **