An inventive youngster has scooped the top prize in a national competition.
Catherine Gooding, 12, of Powers Hall End, Witham, won the award in the Robinsons Fruit and Barley Bright Ideas Competition for her power bath which washes peoples' hair for them.
The competiton challenged children to invent something to make life easier.
Lee Cornes, who plays science teacher Geoff Hankin in the television show Grange Hill, presented Catherine with a £500 voucher to spend in the Science Museum shop in London.
Catherine, a pupil at the John Bramston School in Witham, also saw a model of her creation unveiled in the museum where it will remain on display for the next two months.
Published Wednesday November 6, 2002
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