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19 March 2022 • The Week Junior

E

ight young people have won a national

competition to design a set of postage stamps that

celebrate British heroes of the pandemic.

Royal Mail launched the competition last

spring. It asked young people aged

between four and 14 from around

the UK to design a stamp showing

their pandemic hero or heroine.

These could include anyone

who had worked very hard

during the pandemic such as

cleaners, food-bank volunteers,

supermarket workers, teachers

and people working for the National

Health Service (NHS). More than 600,

entries were sent from almost 7,

schools and 120 finalists were chosen.

A panel of judges, including Prime Minister Boris

Johnson and former children’s TV presenter Baroness

Floella Benjamin, picked 24 regional winners from

around the UK. The final eight designs were chosen

by Prince Charles and approved by the Queen.

The winners and their families were invited to

a special reception at Clarence House in London,

where they were congratulated by Prince Charles.

They included 11-year-old Logan Pearson

from Bury in England, whose drawing

of a laboratory technician shows the

people who worked on Covid tests

and vaccines. Shachow Ali, age

11, from Flint in Wales, drew

Captain Sir Tom Moore after

being inspired by his fundraising

for NHS charities. Alfie Craddock,

who’s 12, from Hertfordshire in

England, drew his mum, who is an

NHS worker, and seven-year-old Isabella

Grover, also from Hertfordshire, drew a

food-delivery driver who helped her family.

Royal Mail’s Simon Thompson said the young

people who entered the competition “have taken the

lead in celebrating the heroes of the pandemic”, and

that the final designs showed the “determination of

the British people in eight drawings”.

“Cars banned from road to let mating

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Stamp competition winners crowned

Young carers need support

T

he charity The Carers Trust has called for more

support for young carers, following a survey

published on Young Carers Action Day (16 March).

In the survey, more than half of young carers said the

time they spent caring for family members each week

had risen in the past year. They also reported feeling

worried, lonely and stressed. The Carers Trust has

called on the Government to support young carers

better and make sure they have enough time off.

THE WEEK’S SILLIEST HEADLINE

Solar farm powers hospital

A

solar farm in Wales has, at times, provided all

the energy needed to run Morriston Hospital in

Swansea. A solar farm is a large collection of solar

panels that collect energy from the Sun and turn it

into electricity. It was hoped that the solar farm would

provide a fifth of the hospital’s energy every year.

However, this target has already been beaten and the

hospital has saved £120,000 in electricity bills since

the nearby farm opened in November.

Max’s second Big Camp Out

The winners with

Prince Charles.

A solar farm.

Max

Woosey

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ax Woosey, age 12, has spent two years

camping outside for charity. Through the

challenge he has braved howling winds and rain to

raise more than £500,000 for a hospice near his home

in Devon, England. Woosey is marking his second

anniversary with a Big Camp Out, inviting young

people to join in from their garden or to make a den

in their living room to raise money for any charity they

choose. Find out more at tinyurl.com/TWJ-bigcamp