> Writers force Nestlé to scrap teenage book award
> By James Morrison, Arts and Media Correspondent
> The Independent
> 23 February 2003
> 
> Nestlé, the controversial Swiss-based multinational, has been forced to scrap
> plans to sponsor a new teenage book prize after a group of Britain's foremost
> children's writers told the company that they never want to be entered for the
> award.
> 
> Gillian Cross, the author of The Demon Headmaster, and Carnegie Medal winners
> Melvin Burgess and Tim Bowler are among seven leading writers who have signed
> a letter stating that they "do not wish to be associated" with Nestlé's prize
> "in any way". 

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=380802


Jodine
http://www.bfnews.blogspot.com

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