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BBC News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Competition-winning friendship poems open Latitude festival
Three young poets have officially opened the Latitude Festival, performing their pieces on the theme of Radio Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire ran a competition in partnership with the festival, open to 7-11 year olds across the three winner was seven-year-old Myles from Wymondham, Norfolk, who was inspired by the world of Minecraft for his poem A Friend Like director Melvin Benn, who introduced the poets on stage, said: "That's what you do when you come to Latitude, you make friends, spend time with friends." The competition began for the 2024 festival as a collaboration with BBC Radio Suffolk, and was open to young people who lived or went to school in expanded to cover three counties for this year's on the theme of friendship were judged by BBC presenters Sarah Lilley and Louise Hulland, along with poet Luke Wright and Latitude arts curator Kirsty Myles said he was "excited and proud" to read his piece to a large crowd in front of the stage, which floats on the lake at Henham Park, and on the bridge two runners-up also performed their 11, from Gorleston, wrote What Can I Do? telling the story of her school friend moving away to said: "I love writing and I hope to publish a book of my poems one day."Eleanor, 11, from Cromer, wrote Someone, a poem that explored how it felt to be without a special the performance she said the experience was "really fun" and she felt proud of her reading. You can read the three poems in full here. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
25-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Gap between the Premier League and Championship is far too much'
After Ipswich's foray back into the Premier League came to a disappointing end with defeat at home by West Ham on the final day, fans have been speaking to BBC Radio Suffolk and reflecting on the season.
