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Poets
win prizes
The winners of a road safety illustrated poem competition were presented
with their prizes at County Hall, Cwmbran on 14 July.
This competition has been an annual event open to all schools in
Gwent for seven years and is run in partnership between Heddlu Gwent
Police and the road safety officers of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly,
Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen.
This year the theme was mobile phones and how they impact on the
safety of road users. During the course of the competition, all
four police forces in Wales had an enforcement campaign targeting
phoning while driving.
Nearly 700 entries were received from schools all over the Gwent
region. The standard of the poems was very high and choosing the
eventual winners proved very difficult.
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There
are two categories, junior and senior. Each category
has a winner, two runners up and several highly commended awards.
The winners received a £100 cheque, runners up £50.
Everyone, including highly commended entries, received a certificate.
The photographs show senior winner Hannah
Killick (above) of West Mon Comprehensive,
Torfaen, and junior winner Daniel Mock
(right) of Crumlin High Level Primary School, Caerphilly, receiving
their awards from Mike Tonge,
Chief Constable of Heddlu Gwent Police.
Selected poems from the first five years of the competition have
been collected into a book for use as a teaching resource. Titled
Outside my Front Door, it will be published in the autumn
using funding from the Welsh Assembly Government and every school
in Gwent will receive a copy.
For further information contact Penny
Thorpe at Capita Symonds, 01633 463376/07818036935,
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