One little Colchester-born star is set to be on our screens for the next 20 years.

Because about once a month, as four-year-old Charlotte Goldsmith grows up, she is being filmed by a television crew for a ground-breaking BBC documentary.

Viewers have just finished tuning for the third instalment of Child of Our Time, which tracks the lives of babies born at the turn of the millennium.

Charlotte was one of 25 babies picked for the study, with leading fertility expert Lord Robert Winston, which looks at what influences the development of children as they grow up.

Published Friday January 23, 2004

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