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Blue Peter award given to Weston-super-Mare hamster
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image copyrightBilly-Jo Howe
image captionA spokeswoman for Blue Peter said they wanted to give Treacle the emblem as a gesture to recognise how she has been helping Miss Howe
A hamster who never fails to put a smile on its owner s face has been given a Blue Peter award.
Billy-Jo Howe, from Weston-super-Mare, in North Somerset, wrote to the show to say how much of a difference her hamster, Treacle, has brought to her life during the most recent lockdown.
The 20-year-old, who lives with autism, says she was overjoyed.
The CBBC show said a few hundred emblems are given out a year and only in exceptional circumstances .