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Posted on 09 March 2012.
The British Independent Retailers Association claims Lucie Balchin could be the youngest person to own a shop.
Due to age restrictions the shop bank account is in her mother’s name and she cannot sign company cheques.
via BBC News – Lucie Balchin is crowned UK’s youngest shop owner at 17.
18 January 2013
State schools should copy the private sector and set up army cadet forces to help build character and instil a sense of self-discipline in their pupils, Labour said today. Schools should also recruit more ex-armed service personnel to act as mentors to their pupils, according to the party’s education spokesman, Stephen Twigg. Speaking at a [...]
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18 January 2013
A 10-year-old boy was today hailed Britain’s most dedicated Cub Scout – after earning all 54 badges in just two years. Tristan Gee has achieved one new badge every two weeks since he joined his troop in 2010 and has so many he almost ran out of space on his cub jumper. The schoolboy joined [...]
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20 April 2012
In the long-running tradition of cute kids narrating things on YouTube, BBC America presented this gem Thursday: children supposedly auditioning to replace narrator David Attenborough on its hit nature series Planet Earth. In honor of Earth Day, BBC America is playing the full, uncut version of the nature docu-series for the first time on April [...]
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