Kids are wizard with words -- Ashton.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-4 December 2001-UK Government: Kids are wizard with words -- Ashton (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04122001 Budding writers from all round the country gathered in London today at the Write Here, Write Now children's awards ceremony at the Natural History Museum.

Children had to write a piece using the opening lines of well-known writers, who also acted as judges and presented the awards today with Schools Minister Cathy Ashton. There were four categories: story, started by Jacqueline Wilson; poem, by John Hegley; non-fiction by Tony Robinson; and script by Phil Redmond, the creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks. Cathy Ashton said: "Our National Literacy Strategy has proved to be a real boost to the standards of...