VICKY CURRAN'S golden trumpet is taking her to a musical meridian.

The talented teenager has been accepted at the world-famous Chetham's School of Music.

She becomes the first pupil from Fred Longworth High to be so honoured.

Sixteen-year-old Vicky - her sights set on a musical career - has spent two years as a Saturday student at Manchester's Northern Royal College of Music School, boosted by a £1,000 grant from the Kennedy Swinton Band which folded in 1993.

Music is her lifeblood.

She plays piano and sings in the school choir; she played with the Wigan Big Band out in Austria.

And, for the last few years, she has played trumpet and cornet with Ellenbrook & Boothstown Brass Band, following in the footsteps of her father Barry, 52, and grandfather Frank, 78, who has just retired after half-a-century with the band.

For the last two years she sounded the Last Post at Ellenbrook's Remembrance Day parade - the first female to do so.

Proud mum Carole, of Lawnswood Drive, Tyldesley, said: "Vicky wants to teach music and drama."

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