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This group of enterprising youngsters could hold the key to Britain's industrial future. They form the youngest group of staff and executives at any Lancashire company and at Pioneer they really mean business. Pioneer is the Preston firm set up by the 16-year-olds at Fulwood High School under the Young Enterprise programme Photo: Archive
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Soccer mad schoolgirls Alison O'Donnell and Julie Norris got a first class reply to their letter to a local football club. The 11-year-old pupils from the Seven Stars Junior School in Chorley wrote to their favourite team (after Manchester United) Leyland Motors asking for pictures of the players. The club did better than that. They invited the girls down to Thurston Road where chairman Kevin Kirkby presented them with a colour photo of the Motors team before their match against Stalybridge Celtic Photo: Archive
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These spring chicks are alive and pecking thanks to the tender loving care of this proud group of youngsters at a Preston school. Class three at Kingsfold Primary School, Penwortham, have spent the past few months keeping a watchful eye on the chicks as they incubated. And a competition to find a name for the first one into the world helped raise money for the school's chosen charity - Action Aid Photo: Archive
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The clowning Kirkby family turned a few heads as they raced through the streets pushing a pram. The Kirkby's of Studholme Crescent, Penwortham, were raising money for the children's spinal unit at Royal Preston Hospital, where 16-year-old Spencer Kirkby, has been a patient. Seven members of the family trekked 15 miles in fancy dress through Lostock Hall, Bamber Bridge and Penwortham. They were waved off by the Mayor of South Ribble Coun Jerry Jenkinson Photo: Archive