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Young people are so often misrepresented – depicted as ignorant, disinterested in politics and apathetic. But this couldn’t be further from the truth for three young men – Danny, Godfrey and Busayo, the co-ordinators of a dynamic political project called U-vote.

U-vote is a not-for-profit organisation which aims to empower young people by encouraging them to vote.

With only nine days to go before the Croydon North by election, the six candidates will tonight take part in a public hustings to speak directly to the local residents about what their policies are, should they be elected.

The hustings will take place at Gonville Academy, Thornton Heath  this evening (November 20th) at 6.30pm . 

The candidates for the seat are:

Channel 4 are looking for contestants for the new series of Countdown programme which will begin filming in January 2013.

Countdown is a TV game show in which people compete against the clock to solve word and number puzzles.

The popular show, which began in 1982, is Channel 4's longest running  series. It will be presented by Nick Hewer along with numbers expert Rachel Riley and words expert Susie Dent.

So if you want to compete in the programme and put your linguistic and mathematical skills to test, then why not apply.

It seems as though the Liberal Democrat vote and the Conservative vote collapsed giving the former Liberal Democrat leader George Ferguson, who stood as an Independent, victory after counting the second preference votes.

Despite all the negative reports about Copeland School in Wembley, North London-Former head and others charged with fraud - the students and present staff refuse to be beaten.

On Wednesday, 150 16-18 year olds attended a talk given by the International head of Rock the Vote, Heather Mills, and OBV’s Simon Woolley.

Heather spoke to the students about how young people in America delivered a second term for President Barak Obama:

We registered millions of young people to vote. And do you what,

She said,

If you haven’t already, it's time to vote. All across England with the exception of London, BME communities have the chance to vote for the individual who will head up their policing as Police Chief Commissioners.

As I’ve being banging on for some time there is also the great possibility of making history in Bristol by electing Europe’s first directly elected Mayor from an African/ Caribbean background.

Whether you’re in Bristol or in other parts of England who are voting for your Police chiefs, vote.

In a speech given yesterday, The Secretary of State for education Michael Gove has reignited the fear that many Black parents suspect, namely:

‘Children from ethnic minorities are being marked down by teachers who expect them to do worse than others in tests.’

He called it the, ‘soft bigotry of low expectation’. Gove went on to claim that evidence shows that Black students do better in external assessments that are marked without bias or knowledge of the pupil.

You point out (Comment, 10 November) that in the Bristol mayoral election tomorrow there are 15 candidates, but there is another story to be told. Bristol can make history. If Labour's Marvin Rees is elected, he will become the first directly elected mayor of African-Caribbean descent, not just in this country, but across Europe.

Derek Webley speaks at his rally

Young people from the city’s ‘Burgers’ and ‘Johnson’ crews took the unprecedented step of standing together publicly in the New Testament Church of God, during an election rally attended by more than 1,000 people on Tuesday night [Nov 13].

It was Webley’s final push in a ‘bring out the vote’ rally in his Lozells church, just 48 hours before the country goes to the polls to elect a series of PCCs across the UK.

At the end of Black history month an extraordinary event took place in which over 1000 people attended, including political grandees, academics, writers, actors, poets and news presenters.

Astonishingly, to my knowledge there was about zero coverage in the media of such a monumental event. It was D-Day: Diane Abbott Day which Goldsmiths College were hosting in the form of a whole day and evening celebration of Diane Abbott’s 25 years as a parliamentarian.