In this week’s issue of First News

  • Batman takes on the cost of living! p5
  • Meet Chester Zoo’s new ‘celebrities’ p10
  • Brazil’s Lula wins re-election by a whisker p14
  • UK’s biggest Harry Potter shop p19
  • Chatting to Tom Fletcher about new book p22
  • Man United misery continues p28

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Invite to Cirque Alice at the Southbank Centre

Step into magical ‘Wonderland’ as Cirque Alice reimagines Lewis Carroll’s classic adventures with gravity-defying feats.

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Invite to festive puppetry show The Gingerbread Man

A First News junior journalist is invited to the press performance of The Gingerbread Man when he arrives in London this December!

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