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TRIPLE jump Olympian Vernon Samuels has visited a Herefordshire secondary school to inspire and mentor students . Vernon, who represented Team GB at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, jumped at the chance to help out with a new healthy lifestyle project at Earl Mortimer College in Leominster, leaders said. The school created healthy lifestyle champions who help their peers with issue such as mental health, wellbeing as well giving tips on eating well and exercise. The athlete gave students a motivational talk about his career as an international athlete as he helped the champions put on a sports festival for fellow students. After retiring from athletics – where he competed alongside GB legends such as Tessa Sanderson and Linford Christie – Vernon became a youth worker and campaigner.
A BRIGHT Leominster teenager has won a place at Cambridge University to study medicine after being inspired by the medics who looked after a sick relative during the coronavirus pandemic. Lily, who will be the first person in her family to go to university, became interested in medicine when volunteering with homeless charity Vennture in Hereford. The 17-year-old said she is now chomping at the bit to get started after the heroics of the NHS staff who looked after her great uncle after he was admitted to hospital with coronavirus. Lots of people think it is strange to want to be in the middle of something like a pandemic but I am just really chomping at the bit to get started, she said.
CORONAVIRUS cases have been confirmed at two more Herefordshire schools, with close contacts told to self-isolate for 10 days. Earl Mortimer College in Leominster and St Paul s Primary School in Hereford have both confirmed one case of Covid-19. Neither school has said if it was a member of staff or pupil who tested positive. In a message on Herefordshire Council s website, St Paul s Primary, in Hampton Dene Road, said the case was confirmed on Friday (February 5). The school said a small number of children have been told to self-isolate as a result, but it remains open for key worker children and these children should continue to attend as normal if they remain well.