Calling all reporters! Use a variety of different sources of information to find out about an even more famous volcanic eruption - Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii in Italy on 24th August AD 79. You could then present your information as another newspaper article if you wanted or perhaps record it on a cassette tape for a news programme on the radio. Okay, radio wasn't invented in those days but it would be fun... or what about a video for the TV news? Eyewitness Accounts back to page 1