YOUNG performer Lucy Dures is celebrating after winning a scholarship to the famous Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London.
Lucy, 16, will be winging her way to the world's oldest theatre school in September where former students include Russell Brand, Pixie Lott Louise Redknapp and Bonnie Langford.
Lucy, of Longfields Crescent, Hoyland, started at Birdwell's Take 2 Theatre Academy.
** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle newspaper, dated August 28. **
