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Monday, 10 June 2019

Daily Reading: Monday 10th June 2019

Last week, my daughter was asked to write a newspaper article based on the 5Ws (who, what, when, where, why). She was unsure what this should look like, so this week we are looking at newspaper articles. We will begin with quite a short report of an incident...



Two charged with murder after man stabbed to death in Liverpool

George Bala Lloyd-Evans, 33, died in hospital after attack in city centre

Press Association

Thu 6 Jun 2019 00.04 BSTLast modified on Thu 6 Jun 2019 00.12 BST
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·     A teenager and a man will appear in court charged with murder after a 33-year-old man was knifed to death in Liverpool city centre following a fight.

George Bala Lloyd-Evans died in hospital after being stabbed in the chest in the early hours of Sunday morning, Merseyside police said.

Ramal Edwards, 19, of Emerson Street, Toxteth, and Kieran Perry, 24, of Wendell Street, Toxteth, were arrested and have been charged with murder. They will appear at Liverpool city magistrates court on Thursday.

Police were called to a fight outside the Wild Cat and Ink bars on Back Colquitt Street at about 3am on 2 June.

On arrival, they found two men with knife wounds and chased a third man who was arrested nearby.

A knife believed to have been used in the incident was recovered from the scene.
Lloyd-Evans was taken to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital where he later died. A postmortem revealed that the cause of death was a single stab wound to the heart.

The incident occurred as football fans celebrated Liverpool’s victory in the Champions League final earlier in the evening.

Points for discussion
  • Look at the headline  - notice the ellipsis (words are missed out). The headline will summarise the article and try to sensationalise it in order to attract readers. 
  • Look at the subheading - the writer will often use this to give a little more detail about the article. 
  • Look at the 5Ws 
who- a teenager and a man will be charged with the murder of a 33 year old man
what - will appear in court charged with murder
when - the early hours of Sunday morning
where- Liverpool city centre
why - (this is unknown)

  • Look at the use of the passive tense and the use of the past tense. 


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