A THUMPING good product won students a £50 prize.
The students from Blackburn College devised a painless stress-relief weapon and named it the Boombastic basher, after the hit pop song by Shaggy. And it was a big hit when their company, called Stressless, put it on sale in the Blackburn Young Enterprise pre-Christmas trade fair in Blackburn Shopping Centre.
John Brown (left), secretary of Blackburn Young Enterprise, and John Holt, assistant shopping centre manager, had a bash when they presented the cheque to students Erica Williams, Marie Troughton, Russell Clews and Nicola McMurray.
Meanwhile, it was dragons and castles from pupils at Rhyddings High School (below) and their Phoenix company at Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Young Enterprise trade fair at Accrington Town Hall. Other companies were Uncanny, from Clitheroe Royal Grammar School; VETI, from St Augustines RC High School and A La Carte from St Christopher's CE High School. Pictured at the Rhyddings display are (from left) Faye Thompson, Amanda Eastman, Collette Seymour. Alastair Battrick, Alex Kay and Imran Arif.
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