PUPILS at a Lytham school are hoping this month to talk their way into the final of a national competition.
James Greer, Elaine Tyler and Elizabeth Broughton of Lytham St Annes Technology college are taking part in the Rotary Club's Youth Speaks 2002 public speaking contest.
The Worsley Road school's year 11 team won the district round organised by South Fylde Rotary competition at the Fernlea Hotel, St Annes recently.
They went on to win the next round of the competition in Morecambe last week.
School spokesman Margaret Anderton said the group's topic, "Get Real -- Get a Life!", was about reality television such as Big Brother and how viewing habits are becoming voyeuristic, interactive and cruel.
She said: "The next step is in Leyland at the end of the month and if we win that we shall be off to the nationals in Bath."
And she added that last year's public speaking team, which reached the national finals with a talk about text messaging, had been invited to give an after-lunch talk to a Rotary conference in Southport.
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