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Thursday July 19, 2018
Vivian Westwood work experience
Sporting stars are proud supporters of #saveourtown
WORK experience with Vivian Westwood awaits at Bedford College fashion and textiles student who won the national Professional Clothing Awards. Summer Gill, a HND student aged 21, beat all-comers to be selected as the overall contest winner with her airport ground crew outfit. Summer, of Barton-le-Clay, has won £1000 and a six month placement at Vivian Westwood. Programme Leader Elisa Bratton said Summer and fellow student Holly Varney-Lonsdale were the
Two olympic Games hopefuls from Luton who both love a fight are putting their full force behind the battle to make their home town a better place.
World karate champion Jordan Thomas, 26, and rising boxing star Jordan Reynolds, 22, are aiming to secure places in Team GB at Tokyo 2020. And both Jordans have pledged their support for #saveourtown, the campaign group promoting two major developments – the new Luton Town stadium at Power Court and the mixed scheme Newlands Park at M1 Junction 10. Jordan Thomas is Great Britain’s first world karate champion in 12 years and the first European champion in eight years. In a video posted on the #saveourtown Facebook, Twitter
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and Instagram pages last night (Wednesday), he said: “Luton is where I was born. For me, it means
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everything, but it’s the heart of everybody. “I very much believe that my character contributes to the town and I am definitely a product of Luton. My upbringing is here and everywhere I go I carry the flag. “My favourite thing about Luton is the heart of everybody and their characteristics. I feel everybody is not scared to be themselves and to speak up and I think Luton is very, very good at doing that. And when times get thick, I feel like we all pull together.” Jordan competes in the Kumite
centre of Press attention at the event demanding to know how Bedford College beat all the university entrants to the glittering prizes - for the second year running. Summer’s design was judged to best meet the needs of the selected job over 10 other finalists from respected BA fashion degree programmes including; Northampton, De Monfort, Manchester Fashion Institute, Letterkenny Institute (Ireland) and
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