Four football-mad lads have had a taste of stardom thanks to a new children's television programme.
The friends have spent a day taking centre stage in front of the cameras putting together a report for a new children's series called Up2U.
Jordan Amaner, Dan O'Connel and Matt Terry, of Chelmsford's Boswells School, and Lee Stopher of the town's Great Baddow High School, were filming the Football Boot Challenge for a day.
The boys, all aged 12, set the scene using the county town's Admirals Park, and were on a mission to test four different pairs of football boots with the aim of finding the most hard-wearing.
The boots, which cost from £20 to £120, were put through a season's wear in a day with tests, including dangling them in the River Can, getting a dog to chew them and driving over them with a roller.
Their report will make up part of a new programme for CiTV giving youngsters aged eight to 12 from all over the UK the chance to speak out about what matters to them most.
Up2U is expected to hit the television screens at 4pm on July 2 for ten weeks
Published Thursday, June 19, 2003
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