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  • Youngsters from the Leicester Mercury-backed Internet broadcaster Takeover Radio have taken their show on the road to appear live before 12,000 people at Drayton Manor Park in Staffordshire.
    The station was set up to fill a gap in children’s broadcasting and has proved a huge success, attracting a stream of local presenters and listeners nationwide.

  • The parents of a baby who needs a vital operation for liver cancer can now join her at the hospital in Birmingham thanks to the generosity of a firm which read about them in the Bristol Evening Post.
    They needed to pay for several days’ accommodation while the op on little Abbie Knight is carried out.
    The Evening Post was so impressed with the donation from a small local firm that it has doubled the £175 handed over by Abacus skip hire.

  • The Express and Star has come in for praise from Dudley councillors who are backing the paper’s crusade to name and shame young offenders who have anti-social behaviour orders imposed on them.
    Several have been identified – with the backing of the courts – to encourage more people to help the police and council by reporting incidents in future.

  • A four-year-old who has just weeks to live is to enjoy Christmas on July 22 after her family organised a big party with guests from around the country.
    Lincolnshire Echo readers have made Emma Parkin’s final days all the more special by raising £7,000 for a trip to Disneyland Paris and to help her Christmas present list become a reality.

  • Budding reporters in north Wales have celebrated their success for producing the best environmental article in a Europe-wide contest.
    Pupils at Ysgol Maes Garmon, in Mold, won the energy category and were also named overall winner in Young Reporters for the Environment, run by the Foundation of Environmental Education.

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