TALENTED youngsters from across the North West performed in Colne at the weekend in the first section of the annual Luther Greenwood Memorial Festival.

The speech, drama and music event was split between three venues - the Municipal Hall, St John's Methodist Church Hall and the Parish Church.

Festival music secretary Muriel Waite said: "The day overall was lacking in quantity but the quality of performance was outstanding." Chairman of speech and drama, Mildred Shaw said: "The speech section grows and grows with the standard of performance equally improving." The Silverman Shield for the highest percentage in the singing categories was presented to Hannah Nicholson, of Nook Croft, Earby, while the nomination for Speech Performance for the national Millennium Festival in the year 2000 was Alyson Dobson, of Burnley.

The second part of the festival takes place on Saturday.

RESULTS

Pianoforte, up to nine years: 1, Thomas Daggett, Burnley; 2, Chloe Snowden, Burnley; 3, Naomi Warren, Nelson. Up to 12 years: 1, Katie Valerie Jenneys, Burnley; 2, Naomi Daley, Burnley. Up to 15 years: 1, Naomi Daley.

Primary school choirs: 1, Lammack, Blackburn; 2, Trawden Forest. Senior school choirs: 1, Park, Colne. Junior Cup choral: 1, Park, Colne. Woodwind, strings or brass, up to 12 years: 2, Samantha Brown, Blackburn. Up to 18 years: 1, Martha Hardman, Colne; 2, Anna Wilkinson, Burnley; 3, Timothy Smith, Clitheroe. Recorder, up to 18 years: Timothy Smith.

Girls' and boys' solo, up to 10 years: 1, Kristie Betterton, Rawtenstall; 2, Marc Noble, Helmshore; 3, Sarah Whittle, Rossendale.

Girls' solo, up to 13 years: Marika Metiuk, Rawtenstall; 3, Alison Ashworth, Waterfoot. Up to 16 years: 3, Elizabeth Pickering, Accrington. Up to 18 years: Hannah Nicholson, Earby; 3, Nula Mathers, Accrington.

Folk song, up to 18 years: 3, Nicola Lynch, Accrington.

Junior British Composer, up to 18 years: 2, Jessica Roebuck, Rawtenstall.

Verse speaking, up to eight years: 1, Roseanna Leathley, Brierfield. Nine to 11 years: Kimberley Pearce, Read; 2, Eleanor Toye, Burnley; 3, Roxanne Barker. Twelve to 14 years: 2, Jenna Webster, Burnley. Fifteen years and over: 1, Alyson Dobson, Burnley; 2, Pamela Jelley, Simonstone; 3, Caroline Watkinson, Rishton.

Dramatic extract, fourteen years and over: 3, Kathryn Hunter, Burnley.

Sight reading, up to 13 years: 2, David Westmoreland, Burnley; Eleanor Toye, Burnley. Fourteen to 16 years: 1, Alyson Dobson. Seventeen years and over: 1, Pamela Jelley; 2, Kathryn Hunter, Burnley; 3, Caroline Watkinson.

Shakespeare Class, 16 years and over: 1, Caroline Watkinson.

Bible reading, up to 12 years: 1, Sarah-Jane Whitehead, Burnley; 2, Eleanor Toye; 3, Jessica Holt, Burnley. Thirteen to 15 years: 1, Alyson Dobson; 2, David Westmoreland. Sixteen years and over: 1, Pamela Jelley; 2, Caroline Watkinson; 3, Kathryn Hunter. Original composition of a poem, 18 years and over: 1, Renee P Blackburn, Colne; 2, David Walker, Barrowford.

Senior short story writing, 16 years and over: 1, David Walker; 2, Ethel Bailey, of Colne; 3, Renee P Blackburn.

Dialect poem, 15 years and over: 2, Frank Gibson, Darwen. Own composition Dialect Poem, 15 years and over: 1, Frank Gibson; 2, Renee P Blackburn; 3, Jack Stephenson, Brierfield.

Sonnet, 12 years and over: 1, Pamela Jelley; 2, Caroline Watkinson, Rishton.

Original poem, for children at Colne and district primary schools: 1, Jack Chew, Sacred Heart; 2, Jemma King, Sacred Heart; 3, Michael Woodhead, Sacred Heart. Original poem, 13 to 17 years: 3, Alyson Dobson.

Short story writing, for Colne and district primary school children: 1, Hannah Charnley, Christ Church, Colne; 2, Rebecca King, St Michael and All Angels, Foulridge; 3, Philip Shaw, St Michael and All Angels.

Acted scenes, 11 years and over: 3, Rachael Holt and Jessica Holt.

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