The ongoing saga surrounding the disappearance of three-year-old British child Madeleine McCann, which first rocked the world news five years ago, has recently taken another new twist after the Portuguese authorities reopened the McCann case, citing new evidence.
This has prompted us at The Bridge Magazine to use our latest editorial to raise more awareness of such cases, and to provide parents, teachers and child …

Pumpkins and Jack O’ Lanterns. 
Oh!—fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days recalling,
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling!
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!
John Greenleaf Whittier, ‘The Pumpkin’ (1850)
 
Many in Britain and worldwide lay wreaths on the graves of loved ones in the grim knowledge that they were snatched from them by the terrible …