- TOP YOUNG WRITERS ANNOUNCED - NORTH-WEST SCHOOLGIRL WINS NATIONAL AWARD
YOUNG writers were celebrating in London today at the national awards ceremony for the Department for Education and Skills' writing awards, Write Here, Write Now 2003.
A record number of more than 34,000 entries were received from 8 to 10 year-olds. The high number of entries demonstrates the enthusiasm for writing in primary schools across the country.
Awards were given in four categories:- story; poem; persuasive writing; and journalism. Children taking part were asked to use opening lines by
well - known writers and personalities as the starting point for their writing: a story by Gillian Cross, winner of the Whitbread Children's Novel award, a poem by Brian Patten, a piece of persuasive writing by historian and TV presenter Adam
Hart - Davis and journalism advice by BBC Newsround presenter, Lizo Mzimba.
Gillian, Brian, Adam and Lizo also attended today's ceremony, held at the
British Library, to announce the national winners and award prizes.
Schools Minister Stephen Twigg said:- "We want learning in our primary schools to be vivid and real and an enjoyable and challenging experience. The Write Here, Write Now awards have given an excellent and stimulating opportunity to the children who took part and I hope they enjoyed writing their entries."
Award winning children's author Gillian Cross said:- "I am delighted to be involved with Write Here, Write Now and I very much enjoyed reading the children's entries - and seeing the amazing number of different
ways in which they continued the story."
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Liverpool
- Moving, Changing, Growing
A FIVE year Anti-Social Behaviour Order has been issued by Sefton Magistrates against a 24 year old man from Bootle.
Neighbourhood police officers have worked closely with the Riverside Housing Association, to gather the evidence of James Digweed's activities - which seriously affected the lives of a number of local residents for many months - to secure the ASBO. Riverside is the first housing association in Sefton to obtain an anti-social behaviour order.
Yvonne Makin, Riverside's Housing Manager for Sefton said:- "Riverside is committed to tackling ant-social behaviour and will take whatever action is necessary to give our tenants and other residents a quality of life we all expect. Obtaining Anti-social behaviour orders are only part of a wider strategy Riverside has for dealing with anti-social behaviour. Riverside also works with schools and voluntary groups on projects to prevent ant-social behaviour arising.
Changes in the law and the good partnership arrangements we have in Sefton has helped this action get an early result. However obtaining the order in itself is not the end of the process as we will all need to monitor for any breaches and take enforcement if necessary."
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