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By Samara,18, Mental Health Correspondent, Jill Dando News Last week, myself and our new CEO of Young Minds, Laura Bunt, were both interviewed live on Times Radio in order to forefront our ongoing End The Wait campaign, as well as giving me a chance as a young person to
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By Jill Dando News A diver miracously found someone’s lost iphone in the ocean and retuned it to them. Ocean cleanup founder Alex Schulze has collected plenty of cell phones from the ocean, but only one has turned on. “Most of the time, the [phones] are basically locked up
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By Evie, 11, Jill Dando News @ PCSA A school has achieved a prestigious accolade for its incredible work on character education. Priory Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset has successfully achieved the 'School Of Character' Quality Mark by the Association of Character Education. To win the accolade, students
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By Ellise, Disabilities Correspondent, Jill Dando News An incredible centre supporting children with difficulties has been hailed as life changing. Ellise Hayward said the Footsteps Foundation in Oxfordshire is ‘beyond incredible’ and makes a ‘real difference to children with disabilities’. Footsteps was set up in 2008 to provide intensive therapy
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By Jill Dando news The Prince of Wales is touring the UK in his bid to beat homelessness. Prince William is speaking up to beat homelessness — just like his mum, Princess Diana, did. FULL STORY: https://people.com/prince-william-launches-homelessness-project-uk-tour-homewards-7553079 On Monday, the Prince of Wales visited Lambeth in south London
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Story by Amy and Isabella 13, with additional reporting and photos by India, Amy, Isabelle, Sam, Evie and Jaiden, Jill Dando News The inspirational and brilliant Ellise Hayward, 21, has become Disabilities Correspondent and general reporter for Jill Dando News. Her role will be to gather positive inspirational good news
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A team of staff from local media, marketing and technology company scaled the UK’s three peaks in a bid to raise money for its regional charity partner, Gympanzees. The event, which took place on Saturday 10 June, saw the team climb the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales
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By Jill Dando News Prince William is on a bold and brilliant crusade to end homelessness. His five-year plan will include building houses on royal land. FULL STORY: https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1782031/prince-william-homelessness-plan-praise# Homeless charities thanked the Prince of Wales for committing to tackling the problem
Mental Health
By India, 13, Jill Dando News A fun gardening club for mindfulness has been launched at a Somerset school to help boost mental wellbeing. Students at Priory Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset will benefit from sessions of mindfulness gardening in their one acre ‘Forest area’. The club will involve
Animals
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6hfZt2cyti0 By Jill Dando News This funny video shows an orangutan called Amber using hand signals to ask a visitor to give her - some sweets. Amber the ape at Louisville Zoo spotted a woman called Taylor and started pointing at her backpack. The orangutan
Climate
By India, 13 and Evie, 12, Jill Dando News A school’s Eco Club has been holding a whole week dedicated to Active travel recycling and all together everything Eco. This week includes battery collections (where you bring in your used batteries) and also new and fresh Tutor time slides.
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World Exclusive story by AMY and ISOBELLA, 13, with additional reporting and photos by India, Amy, Isabelle, Sam, Evie and Jaiden, Jill Dando News During World War 2 and for over 70 years after, the late Queen Elizabeth kept Britain motivated with messages of hope and optimism. Now just months
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By Jill Dando News A former soldier who lost both legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan has become the first double above-the-knee amputee to scale Everest - declaring ‘anything is possible!’. Hari Budha Magar, 43, who lives in Canterbury, Kent, completed the incredible feat. It was just under a
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By Denis, 13, Jill Dando News If you have ever wanted to know more about the mysterious planet Saturn, help is on the way. In a groundbreaking move, NASA is doing tests on an ultra clever slithering robot designed to explore the treacherous terrains of Saturn's icy moon,
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By Jill Dando News Jill Dando News reporters have hosted BBC TV at their school in Weston-super-Mare, to show them the new Teacher for a Day project, out of The Priory Learning Trust. BBC TV and radio visited the popular primary school as its thriving multi academy trust launched their
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By Jill Dando News Fabulous Finley, 10, of Jill Dando News has interviewed the world Godfather of customer loyalty Fred Reichheld. The student, from St Anne’s Church Academy West Wick, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, quizzed the author and top world entrepreneur and got his top tips on life success. Fred is