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Winning ways: the London Rollergirls Roller Derby team

Lorna Brown and her team are off to prove they've got what it takes to be the best against the top players in the USA

Design a better future with Great Britons

Getting a break in the fashion industry isn’t easy, but two entrants in the Great Britons programme are hoping this is their chance

Inside Great Britons

Chocks away! A vintage drive through Africa...

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

David and Ben, aka Chocks Away, recently drove through Africa in a vintage car to raise money for charity

Making sailing history

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

When yachtsman Geoff Holt, from Shedfield near Southampton, became the first quadriplegic to sail singlehandedly around Britain in 2007, he caught the public’s imagination. Spurred on by that, he’s recently gone one better, by conquering the Atlantic, again the first quadriplegic to do so.

Let your talent take flight

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

If you’ve got what it takes to be the best in your field, you could be a Great Briton

Round six Great Britons winners are...

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Have you got what it takes to be a Great Briton? Morgan Parkerson and artist Robin Footitt have – and they’ve won flights that could transform their careers

The opportunity of a lifetime for a young drumming sensation

Friday, 18 December 2009

Linden Berelowitz started playing the drums aged 10 and now, eight years later, has applied for Great Britons flights so he can attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, US, where he has been offered a scholarship to study the drums, following an audition in which the college described his playing as ‘outstanding’

Demystifying the works of Shakespeare

Thursday, 17 December 2009

For almost two years, friends Dan Poole and Giles Terera, who met at drama school a decade ago, have been making a documentary about performing Shakespeare, for which they’ve filmed interviews with actors, directors, casting directors and others who’ve been in or staged his plays.

Going from strength to strength in national softball

Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Morgan Parkerson started playing Softball at school when she was 14 and now plays for the Great Britain National Softball Team, which moved up to the European A Pool in 2001

European Championship dreams for the Great Britain Group for Rythmic Gymnastics

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Sarah Binding coaches Rhythmic Gymnastics at the National Group Training Centre for the South West and Midlands at Bath University and hopes to win flights so the Great Britain Group for Rhythmic Gymnastics can compete at the European Championships in Germany next year

Artist Robin Footitt hopes once again to immerse himself in the Big Apple's thriving arts scene

Monday, 14 December 2009

After being awarded an internship in 2006 at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - one of the largest art institutions in the world - it's been his ambition to return to the city and put his experience to good use

Improving the health and welfare of fish and making them grow faster

Sunday, 13 December 2009

Dr Sunil Kadri’s company, OptoSwim Technologies, produces a system for exercising fish in fish farms

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