Taking a child away from his/her family
Kidnapping
Something that can be high, often because of stress or bad diet
Blood pressure
The process of making air (and water) dirty
Pollution
A word which means when a newspaper shows favour towards a certain group or opinion
Biased
A bank loan against which your house or flat is the security
A mortgage
The person who attacks someone to steal his/her money
Mugger
Something you should put on a small cut
The rise in temperature caused by gases in the atmosphere
Greenhouse effect
A story which is correct and has got the facts right can be described with this adjective
Accurate
A house standing on its own, not attached to any other house
Detached house
Demanding money or favours from someone by threatening to reveal a secret
Blackmail
Food poisoning
It screens out the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation
Ozone layer
A person who writes articles for different papers and is not employed by any one paper
A freelance journalist
A row of houses connected to each other by common side-walls
Terraced houses
The crime of starting a fire in order to destroy or damage something
Arson
What you should take if you have a headache e.g. aspirin or paracetamol
Painkillers
A dense woodland in a rainy region
Rainforest
A person who writes in a newspaper or magazine giving advice to people in reply to their letters
Agony aunt
The place where we put the dishes to wash them up
The sink
The crime of killing a person by someone who did not intend to do it
Manslaughter
A phrasal verb that means to recover from an illness
Get over
Layer of spilt oil in the sea
Oil slick
A verb used in newspaper headlines wich means to marry
Wed
The person who is renting a flat from someone
A tenant