Jill Dando News
By Lizzi (11) and Demi (13) Jill Dando News Reporters at The King Alfred School Academy The King Alfred School Academy hosted its annual Awards Evening this week, a night dedicated to celebrating the achievements of its students. Head Students Emily, Mia, Bea, and Lincoln led the event, warmly welcoming
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By Charities Correspondent The Ascot Group in Somerset is helping deliver Christmas gifts to children across Weston-super-Mare this week, supporting a local charity dedicated to ensuring no child goes without at Christmas. This week, Ascot Group team members Ross, Grace, and Matt have been visiting local schools across Weston-super-Mare, delivering
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By Business Correspondent Glasgow locals Linsey McGillivray and Beth McCready both joined M&S as teenagers on fixed-term Christmas contracts. Today, with more than 40 years’ service between them, they hold management roles in Glasgow stores and are welcoming this year’s seasonal recruits. In October, M&S
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By Communities Correspondent Summerfield is once again proudly supporting Taunton-based charity Christmas Sparkle, helping to spread festive cheer to disadvantaged children and families across the community. The Christmas Sparkle project aims to ensure every child living in difficult circumstances in the local community receives a gift at Christmas and Summerfield
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By Charities Correspondent Priory Community School is hosting concert on Thursday the 18th December at 6:30pm for all to enjoy for only £3. Why should I come to a little school concert when could be home in bed? All money raised will go to Weston Foodbank https://westonsupermare.foodbank.
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By Community Correspondent A grateful family has visited the London Ambulance Service crew who helped to deliver baby Luca in the back of an ambulance. Proud parents Shilpa and Joseph revealed that Luca’s birth certificate even notes he was born in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Shilpa
Schools
By Isabella, 13, Jill Dando News Correspondent at Priory Newsroom Local poet prodigy Sophie Constable has been shortlisted for the Daisy Education UK Winter Poet Competition! Public Voting is being used to decide the winners, with the public being able to vote on Instagram, Facebook and X. The deadline for
Schools
By Schools Correspondent Shoppers and passers-by at the Weston-super-Mare Sovereign Centre were treated to a joyful surprise this week as the Walliscote Primary School Choir filled the space with festive music and Christmas cheer. Led by Headteacher Shelley Flanagan, the choir sang beautifully, spreading smiles among families, shoppers and members
Charities
By Animals Correspondent The Donkey Sanctuary is part of a consortium behind a pioneering project in Nepal to improve mule welfare while fostering environmental sustainability and strengthening remote communities. Implementing a One Welfare approach, the Gallop for Good project aims to create positive and sustainable change across a wide range
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By Community Correspondent A sniffer dog who made six separate operational finds of explosives and ammunition has been named Military Working Dog of the Year. Four-year-old Springer Spaniel Military Working Dog (MWD) Paul and his handler, Sergeant Craig Roberts, worked for the RAF Police, based in London, when they were
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By Community Correspondent The University of Leicester’s Botanic Garden is now home to one of the iconic Sycamore Gap saplings from the National Trust. The Trust has distributed 49 saplings grown from the seed of the famous Northumberland tree that was felled in September 2023 across the UK, including
People
By Jaiden, 14, Jill Dando News Correspondent at Priory School Academy Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of previous Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, has said she is determined to live in a free Venezuela and will “never give up on that purpose” when she accepted her mother’s
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By Animals Correspondent Christmas sacks for gorillas and festive stockings for saki monkeys were gifted by zookeepers at London Zoo this week, as the world-famous conservation zoo celebrated its Magic of Christmas event, running until Sunday 4 January. London Zoo’s gorillas were treated to festive sacks filled with their
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By Amelia, aged 9, Jill Dando News Reporter at Heron’s Moor Zuzanna, aged 10, from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset has been dancing since she was two years old and has now just won the Weymouth Dance Festival. The Heron’s Moor School pupils performed a modern duet dance which involved a
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By Schools Correspondent An award-winning 12-year-old journalist is helping to train the next generation of young reporters through live school newsrooms. Rosie, a student at Priory Community School Academy in Somerset, has stepped into a mentoring role after three successful years as a Jill Dando News reporter, supporting younger pupils
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By Education Correspondent An academy was transformed into wild Bear Country for an afternoon of major sporting activity when City Academy sports leaders teamed up with Bristol Bears stars to deliver a memorable rugby session for Evergreen Primary Academy pupils. City Academy Year 9 and Year 10 sports leaders delivered