A group of kids just couldn't look away from the work of a very special guest at school this week. That guest said whatever your passion in life, you remember the people who helped ignite it.
half an hour and we are asking what that means for you. they are probably wondering what it means for them as well here because this centre is a free museum, an exhibition space, they teach young apprentices the skills of glass blowing, imagine the cost of running those furnaces day and night to do the kind of skills teaching that these guys are doing right now? we will speak to them later about how they do that. they are making halloween pumpkins out of glass and i am being halloween pumpkins out of glass and iam being kept halloween pumpkins out of glass and i am being kept well away from those lovely vases as well! it s a risk putting me in a glass museum, i am a bit clumsy. we are talking about what it means for all of us, energy bills, fuel bills, filling up the car, what does it mean that the supermarket checkout when you put your stuff in your trolley every week? what are the real terms problems, what are the solutions, and one place i have been to here in sunderland is trying t
welcome to the national glass centre here in sunderland. we are here to talk about the rising cost of living and how it s affecting you and your family. the latest inflation figures are due in the next few minutes we in the next few minutes are going to go through explain we are going to go through them and explain how they work and what they say and what the impact might be on pensions and benefits in the months ahead. these are the ones that are normally used to calculate the rise in the state pension and some other benefit increases from next april. this is an amazing centre and a former shipyard site, opened about 30 years ago and this place is determined to retrain people in things like glass blowing and glass skills, the old glass industry in sunderland still reflected, literally blowing new life into local economy by creating these wonderful glass pumpkins and we will see how they are made a little later. i don t think they will let me near them.
hearing from five young people across the country who are going to be cycling the rickshaw over the next week, who have all been benefited and helped by charities that children in need fund. today it is all about alexander, who is 16, he has autism, and he has 16 guinea pigs. i have been to meet him and find out all about him. i have been to meet him and find out all about him. alexander is 16. today he s glass blowing. a new hobby that requires bags of confidence. lovely! he lives forfootball, his 16 guinea pigs, and pebble painting. i have autism. when i was two, i never used to talk. but when i got to five, talking is one of my favourite things to do.
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