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Award boost for sub's charity work

Bullying Online, the charity run by Yorkshire Evening Post sub editor Liz Carnell, has scooped another major award.

The anti-bullying children’s charity won the community and voluntary section of the Yorkshire and Humber regional final of the E-Commerce Awards 2003.

The award means the charity will receive £2,000 in prize money to help with running costs, and gives it a second year of success after it won the same title last year.

It will now go on to compete in the national finals in London next month.

Liz said: “We nearly didn’t enter because we won it last year and we didn’t think we’d stand a chance again.

“The competition was a great deal hotter this year. I did a major rewrite of the site content towards the end of last year so that must have helped us.

“To win another £2,000 is amazing, we are delighted.”

The award is a further boost for Bullying Online, which last month received a £10,000 government grant to help with running costs.

Launched four years ago, the charity’s website www.bullying.co.uk, has now had more than 398,000 visitors, with volunteers responding to more than 20,000 emails.

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