CORE campaigner Janine Allis-Smith travelled to Ireland last week to receive an award from the Peace and Justice group of St Angela’s Convent School, Waterford. Described as an inspiration to the school, Janine has campaigned on Sellafield and related health issues for a number of years. An inscribed crystal vase was presented to Janine as a Special Award to individuals who have made a profound difference by their work in obtaining justice and obliterating suffering in the world. The presentation ceremony came at the end of the school’s Peace and Justice Week and included awards to a 15 year-old girl blinded in the Omagh bomb blast last year, and to John Pilger renowned for his human rights work in Cambodia, Burma and East Timor. Previous award winners have included Archbishop Belo – Nobel Laureate from East Timor, Senator Gordon Wilson, Dick Spring TD and Adi Roche from Ireland and Aung San Suu Kyi – leader of opposition in Burma. Last Autumn CORE was similarly honoured by the Mayor of the City of Ashville, North Carolina, USA, (near the giant Savannah River nuclear weapons complex where BNFL have recently won contracts), for its dedication to educational work around the world on the issues of nuclear reprocessing and plutonium proliferation. For further information contact CORE on 01229 833851.