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Radio Leicester,3 mins

The battle of Vimy Ridge.

Jim Davis and Jo Hayward

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We're following what happened when a party of 50 teenagers from a Leicestershire school went on a very special trip to France. This wasn't just a jolly, for the 14 year olds from the Lancaster School in Leicester, it was an emotional journey finding out more about World War 1 and the Christmas truce of 1914. Before the pupils met up with a hundred french and german students in Reims, there was a trip to the battlefield which is now a grave site at Vimy Ridge a short distance from the town of Arras..The battle of Vimy Ridge was one of the greatest battles led by Canada during World War I. Âé¶¹Éç Radio Leicester's Bridget Blair was there..

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