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News Village enjoys sun and games
ABOUT 100 people enjoyed the fourth annual Olympicnic hosted by Downswood Parish Council at MallardsWay Park, Downswood. The free event, supported by
MPE Football Club, aims to bring the community together for a few hours of fun, games and friendly competition. There was a wide variety of
races including running, sack, egg and spoon, piggy back, three- legged and relays. Wellies were hurled great distances in the very competitive welly throwing con- test, endurance and skill were ev- ident in the standing long jump and speed bounce competitions, while women demonstrated their superior strength by winning the tug-of-war against the men.
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time I was a very different person, more interested in my friends.” Luke left St John’s Junior School in Grove Green for Cornwallis Academy. It was there, says the student – who has hopes of be- coming a univer- sity lecturer – that
Pictures: Andy Archer The Health MOT Roadshow
came along to encourage visitors to enjoy a healthy lifestyle, and MPE provided a delicious barbe-
Luke’s first-class reward
things began to change. He said: “The teachers were ex- cellent. They got me interested in science and the different processes behind how things work.” Luke’s hard work secured him
eight GCSEs, many ofAgrade, and a Btec in business. He could have transferred to a grammar school at
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this stage, but decided to stay on at Cornwallis to sit his A-levels. He said: “When I began my A-
levels itwas awake-up call and I re- alised I had to knuckle down.” Nowhomeafter three years at the
University of Essex, in Colchester, Luke’s degree in biomedical science takes pride of place.
cue and a face painter. The glori- ous weather boosted ice cream sales and families and friends en- joyed picnics in the sunshine.
He said: “Aswell as the teachers,
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school I would go on to be a scien- tist I’d have been lost for words.” Exam results – see pages 18-19
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