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Store helps Chernobyl children’s health
A group of children from Belarus spent a month in the Swindon and
Wiltshire area gaining strength away from the irradiated region around
their home village of Ozarichi which is heavily contaminated from the
Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine over 20 years ago.

Summer holiday in Swindon for children living in the nuclear fallout zone
One of the many activities they “I went to Ozarichi last October
enjoyed with host families was to have and was amazed how people make
a meal in the Sainsbury’s Bridgemead do with what they’ve got, compared
restaurant. The seven children also with what we’re happy to throw away.
received a £50 gift voucher to spend I was so impressed by how teachers are
in the store. committed to helping children who
It was the first time the store had are at risk from eating food grown in
welcomed children brought to Britain contaminated soil.
by Wiltshire Chernobyl Children “A few weeks in a clean environ-
in Need. ment boosts their immune system,
Sainsbury’s staff member Mel but most will go home to work in the
Warner, who hosts children, said: fields to bring in the harvest.”

One World Cup comes to England in 2014
England’s footballers had a forgettable summer in Brazil, but 18 young
ladies from Swindon Academy of Dance returned from a Portuguese
speaking nation with a World Cup success to shout about.

At the end of June the academy Winifred Diggens scooped 16 golds
squad who competed as Team Eng- and 8 bronzes between them, as well
land at the Dance World Cup Finals in as some 4th and 5th places, all earning
Portugal emerged victorious against valuable points for Team England.
five other nations. They built an im- The fusion group and tap quartet
pressive 158 point margin over second both achieved first places which
place Spain, with Portugal, Germany secured automatic entry into next
and Austria making up the rankings. year’s final in Bucharest.
Amy Gordon, Anabelle Ruggiero, Expressing her delight at the girls’
Aneira Purnell, Charlotte Payne, success, academy principal Sarah
Charlotte Price, Corinne Barber, Ella Watson said: “This was a huge achieve-
Billingham, Georgia Bailey, Isabel ment and a fantastic experience for
Gould, Isobel Thurlow, Isobel Webb, all the girls involved. The love and
Lois Floyd, Lowri Hughes, Madelaine support shown from their family
Winter, Rhiannon Mackay, Saffron and friends was a vital part of their
Hamilton-Gill, Saona Lovell and success.”
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