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Yahoo
15-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Children get to hold Olympic medals as part of Careers Day at school in Leigh
Children at a school in Leigh were given the chance to hold Olympic medals at a Careers Day event. West Leigh School hosted the event, engaging pupils in various activities to explore skills needed for diverse jobs. Workshops and presentations were delivered by parents and community members, including the MP for Southend West and Leigh, David Barton-Sampson. The highlight was an assembly with Olympic gymnast Georgia-Mae Fenton. She shared her career journey, achievements, and even demonstrated some skills. She also got headteacher Mr Aggus to perform cartwheels. The children were thrilled to hold her medals and ask questions about her life as a gymnast. A spokesperson for the school said: "It was a brilliant day with children engaging in various activities that allowed them to explore skills required for different jobs "They attended workshops and presentations delivered by parents and members of the community."
BBC News
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Sir David Amess and Jimmy Greaves feature in new biography book
The lives of prominent Essex people - including MP Sir David Amess, footballer Jimmy Greaves and Labour politician Stan Newens - are to be detailed in a long-running reference book of noteworthy British Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) is updated each year to reflect the lives of historical figures who have died in a certain who died in 2021 and whose biographies are to be featured also include Prince Philip, actress Helen McCrory, drummer Charlie Watts and charity fundraiser Captain Sir Tom ODNB started in 2004, but the original Dictionary of National Biography was first published in 1885 and featured thousands of notable people. Other Essex names among the 238 being added are writer, actress and former model Clare Dunkel and Conservative MP James Brokenshire, who was born in total, more than 5,000 people with Essex connections feature in the David, who was fatally stabbed at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in October 2021, was the the Conservative MP for Basildon from 1983 to 1997 and Southend West from 1997 until his who still holds the record for the most goals scored in top-flight English football, played as a striker for Chelsea, AC Milan, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham over the course of his later became a newspaper columnist and television personality and died at his home in Little Baddow, Essex, in September of the Essex figures, Stan Newens, was the Labour MP for Epping from 1964 to 1970 and later served as an family moved to Epping when he was a child following the outbreak of World War Dunkel, who used the pen name Mo Hayder for her numerous successful crime and thriller novels, starred in Are You Being Served? in her younger years and grew up in latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes biographies of more than 63,000 individuals. Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
