A TEENAGER awaiting GCSE results, faces an even tougher test -- as a key member of the Burnley Task Force charged with finding answers to racial unrest in the town.

Towneley High School head girl Charlotte O'Horo is one of four young people appointed to the team looking into the causes of last month's riots.

Like fellow young colleagues on the Task Force, Nasir Ilyas, Sakeena Khan and Alick Mitchell, she will be expected to bring a youthful perspective to the deliberations.

And there is little doubt the girl, who was elected a Lancashire's representative on the UK Youth Parliament earlier this year, won't be afraid to speak her mind.

She said: "I have always had my own opinions and can see things from other people's point of view and I love meeting people."

Charlotte, whose ambition is to be a Blue Peter TV presenter, has already run schemes on the dangers of alcohol abuse and teenage pregnancy.

Burnley town hall has finally named all 16 members but a spokesman said background details of all the members would not be available until sometime next week.

No photographs were being issued and the first opportunity of as photo call of Task Force members would be their next meeting on August 16, the spokesman added.

As already revealed in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, the team, led by Independent chairman Lord Tony Clarke, includes council leader Stuart Caddy; council chief executive Dr Gillian Taylor; head of Burnley police Chief Supt John Knowles; Bishop of Burnley the Rt Rev John Goddard; Liberal Democrat Councillor Mozaquir Ali, representing the Asian community; County Coun Marcus Johnstone, a former long-serving member of Burnley Council, representing Lancashire county.

Other members not previously named are the four youth representatives; Muslim faith leader Iman Jehan Ali; Asian business representative Zaffir Ali; Shopna Begum of the Al-nisa Asian group; Janice France of Voluntary Action in the Community; Brenda Rochester of the Community Alliance.