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By Jill Dando News Correspondent Hollywood actor Hugh Grant and wife Anna have donated £20,000 Christmas gift to Britain's kindest plumber. Hugh and wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein donated a staggering £20,000 to James Anderson, 55, from Burnley as a 'wonderful Christmas gift'. James told
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By Jill Dando News Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm is helping people with their finances by stocking affordable wonky Christmas trees. The visionary zoo is one of the first to be stocking wonky Christmas trees for sale this Christmas. Chris Brookes, Catering and Retail Manager at the Zoo described the
Education
By Jill Dando News A brilliant school-based Sixth Form is topping the charts of Somerset schools for students going on to Oxbridge or Russell Group universities The King Alfred School Academy Sixth Form Centre was found to be the best local school for both Oxbridge and Russell Group university admissions.
Animals
By Francesca Boswell, 19, Jill Dando News Correspondent This is really good news for the Sumatran Rhino - one of the worlds most critically endangered species. It is being threatened by the destruction of tropical forest habitats and poachers who kill the rhinos for their horns. However Indonesia’s improved
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By Filip, 9, Jill Dando News Correspondent, Ashcombe Primary School Weston café owner, David, published a book called Sam the Quarry Fox. Sam the Quarry Fox, which was published during the covid pandemic, features photos by David ZV Lewis and text by Angela MW Lewis. You can purchase this book
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By Oscar, 13, Music Correspondent, JIll Dando News @ WCSA It’s good news as the venue where Banksy made Dismaland world famous is to have a huge renovation for 2024. Banksy turned the Tropicana into a world famous location in Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, UK in 2015. Now it
Happiness
By Happiness Correspondent Adam Grant, an organisational psychologist, University of Pennsylvania professor, podcaster, and the bestselling author of multiple books, says studies, prove that givers and generous people are happier than takers. He declared his findings in his latest book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things, In the
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By Jill Dando News Friends and family of an “outstanding, kind, happy, polite and perfect” student who died have launched a project to set up a subsidised café and restaurant opposite the Bristol Royal infirmary in her memory The brilliant Evie, 16, passed her GCSEs at Worle Community School Academy
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By Zoe 15, Jill Dando News @ TKASA Students, staff, and parents have shared festive cheer at a Christmas light switch on The King Alfred School Academy held their annual Christmas light switch on, joined by staff, students, parents, and Burnham and Highbridge’s Mayor, Lesley Millard. The Mayor marked the
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By Amy, 14, Jill Dando News Correspondent @ PCSA Schools are looking for heroes - help us to find them! Schools across The Priory Learning Trust in Somerset want to find students who go the extra mile to make the world a better place, who show incredible kindness, character or heroism.
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By Oliver, 13, Jill Dando News Correspondent Over the weekend, the Stars of Time comic con took place in Weston-super-Mare's Tropicana - a hub for amazing events and exhibitions such as SEE MONSTER and Bansky's Dismaland. Visitors to the Somerset venue got the privilege of meeting
Animals
By Oliver, 13, Jill Dando News Correspondent Jeff, a fantastic feline, lost his leg when he was only ten months old. He was hit by a car, and quickly rushed to the vets, where he made a miraculous recovery. Jeff is grey and white, with long hair, and despite overcoming
Education
By Oliver, 13, Jill Dando News Correspondent Emma Britton, a former BBC Radio Bristol presenter and Jill Dando News Centre patron, is training up students to be brilliant public speakers. Emma visited Worle Community School Academy in Somerset to introduce a Public Speaking Training Scheme. WCSA is the former school
Culture
By Zoe, 13, Jill Dando News Correspondent All of the students (Year 7-13) at The King Alfred School Academy in Highbridge, Somerset are in the cast of the school production Sister Act which will be performed next year. The show in Cardiff was phenomenal and the whole cast was brilliant.
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By Ellise Hollie Hayward, 21, Disabilities Correspondent, Jill Dando News Their mission statement is to “enable personal achievement and progression by developing essential skills and self-confidence through learning, living and work. Our values are opportunity, choice and respect. They fulfil their mission statement by offering supported living services, enabling services,
Charity
By Jill Dando News Helen Skelton was the guest speaker when one hundred and fifty volunteers from 40 vital community food projects across Cumbria and Lancashire attended the ‘Celebration of Kindness’ event. All give their time to run food banks, food hubs, pantries, breakfast clubs and kitchens - which are