Students at Bilborough College exercised their right to vote after hearing from four political party candidates during a mock election.

The event was organised in a bid to encourage the 606 students who are eligible to vote to register in time for the upcoming election.

Candidates from the Lib Dems, Conservatives, Labour and the Green Party each delivered a five-minute speech to students before taking questions.

Students then cast their votes using real ballot boxes and voting booths and the overall winner was the Labour Party with 72 per cent of the votes. The Conservatives secured 13 per cent of the vote, the Green Party eight per cent and the Lib Dems seven per cent.

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An ex-student returned to Bilborough College talk about her life-changing trip to Honduras teaching underprivileged youngsters in schools and orphanages.

Jessica Riley-Heenan spent a year in Honduras with Project Trust, the oldest educational charity specialising in overseas volunteering placements for school leavers.

As a result of her time in the Central American country, Jessica is now studying a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) course at Nottingham Trent University as she wants to teach English abroad.

She recently came back to Bilborough College to talk to current students about how the trip had changed her life.

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Welcome to Issue 5 of the Bilborough Buzz college magazine.

This issue includes the Media and Film Studies trip to the Harry Potter Studios, French exchange to Bordeaux, our mock election, Art and Photography department’s end of year exhibition, Pretty Muddy for Cancer Research and Year 13 end of year information.