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The constituency of Chatham and Aylesford in the South East is going to be one of the most interesting and hard-fought races in the 2015 general elections. It will be a contest between Tracey Crouch MP (Con) and Labour's PPC, Tristan Osborne. I met with both candidates to discuss the race, their hopes for it and what they believe will be the main issues. These are the key factors in the race:

It has national significance

The revision class for JN501 has been rescheduled to Thursday 9 May at 12.00

The revision class for Reporting Confict JN509 will go ahead tomorrow 8 May at 1.00.

The revision session for Reporting Conflict JN806 has been rescheduled for Friday 10 May at 11.00.

It seems Dame Helen Mirren is becoming too comfortable with her role as the Queen, after her diva-like strop on Saturday.

The actress appeared from the stage door of the Gielgud Theatre, where she was performing in Peter Morgan’s play the Audience, to give some noisy drummers a good telling-off.

The drummers were parading around Soho to promote their As One In The Park festival.

In a recent report the watchdog Ofsted has advised schools to teach children about pornography.

This comes after the Sex Education Forum, a coalition of children’s charities and health groups, suggested that children need to be taught that porn is “not all bad”.

The debate of what children should be taught in sex education classes has long been disputed as many parents have their own idea of what they believe their children should know.

Early this week Kenya’s President and ICC indictee Uhuru Kenyatta met Prime Minister David Cameron during a three-day UK-Somalia conference.

It was initially feared that Mr Kenyatta might never be hosted in a Western nation as Britain has a policy of only "essential contact" with anyone charged by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

But Mr Kenyatta’s tour of London caught many by surprise. Human rights activists have vehemently condemned Britain for shaking hands with a suspected criminal.

A reminder to MA students and Year 1 and Year 2 undergrads. Today at 5pm is the deadline for your spring term blog posts, which form part of your multimedia portfolio for Practical Multimedia Journalism (MAs) and Convergent Journalism (BAs).

A reminder of how the portfolio is made up can be found here. Deadline for the final portfolio item is on Friday at 5pm. Richard and I will both be happy to advise you on this.

Today more than ever before, media organisations spends time, energy and money on knowing exactly what would appeal to their readers on a daily basis. A newspaper is to reflect the interests and concerns of its readers, that is a simple fact of the industry. But even if there is still an on-going, presumably never ending, debate about whether the media reflects or sets the news agenda, the fact still remains that the issues that appear in the headlines are those that end up being talked about.

No matter how stunning your tummy or what you think of your derrière, think twice about sending that steamy photo to your lover.

Why you ask? Because heaven knows what your significant other may mean to you six months from now and what sexy site your junk may end up on.

“Revenge Porn” is on the rise and the trouble is there aren’t enough regulations in place to safeguard the sender's rights, privacy, and anonimity.

After seeing friends sharing the pictures claiming to be the killers of 2-year-old Jamie Bulger, I waited for something to happen about it.

So last week Neil Harkins and Dean Liddle were given nine month sentences (suspended for 15 months) for publishing the photos - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22310412