The tragic sequence of events which led to the brutal murder of Joe Geeling would never be reported by Newsround with its current misconceived ethos. But today the surrounding circumstances of Joe Geeling's shocking murder came to be known. Although the circumstances were complicated, ultimately it was a rebuffed sexual advance which led Michael Hamer to murder Joe.

Newsround has decided that they can't keep the Muslim veil controversy under wraps any longer, and finally reported it today - in fact, all kinds of religious dress, including Sikh turbans, the Christian cross, etc were mentioned today but taking little account of progressive Muslims or Sikhs who usually don't wear niqabs or turbans.

Perhaps it's about time that Newsround faced up to the fact that the real world is not simply heterosexual, nor simply religiously observant, and that there are both homosexual kids and progressive Muslims, as well as others out there.