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A FORMER Rhodes University student's portrait of a double Olympic champion and now Olympic ambassador, Dame Kelly Holmes, has gone on display...

\"Pay is not why you do this,\" says Dame Kelly Holmes, who has won Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European medals including double Olympic Gold at the 2004 games in Athens. \"Being an elite athlete is about performing the best you can. \"You can't put a value on their experience and the 250 sports performers on our books mentor young people and run projects for the community. They encourage young sporting talent through our Backing Talent scheme and through Get On Track -- our project for NEETs (young people not in education, employment or training) -- we put young people through a personal development programme and guarantee a work placement to help them find employment.\"

Dame Kelly Holmes is one sportswoman lucky enough not to have to worry too much about her future employment. Since retiring from athletics in 2004, after her sensational victories in the 800 and 1,500 meters at the Athens Olympics (the first Briton to win twice at a Games since 1920), she has been in hot demand as a television commentator, guest of honor and public speaker. Holmes wants to break the expectation that elite sports people can only be useful as motivational speakers and to prove to them and employers that they have a much broader range of skills. Holmes is inviting other corporates to become supporters/sponsors and consider seriously how ex-athletes can add value to their business.

\"Dame [Kelly Holmes] has been very supportive of the work Cancerbackup does in providing anyone affected by cancer with support,\" said Jo Douglas, fundraising manager at the charity. \"In particular, she has lent her support to our projects for teenagers affected by cancer.\"

Dame Kelly Holmes, 46, is aiming to raise Pounds 250,000, split between her own Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, Hospice in the Weald, Myeloma UK, Pickering Cancer Centre and Mind UK.

What girls wear 'is the main area that needs to be tackled and may help lower teenage dropout rates from physical activities', she said. 'Modern teenagers need to feel comfortable, so they are less conscious of their body image. Primarily they want tracksuits for outside activities and to cover their legs, hoodies for team sports and colour-coded T-shirts. The colours that have come out on top have been black with pink writing or logos.' 'It was really revealing and see-through,' said Rebecca O'Rourke, a 14-year-old pupil who led the campaign. 'A lot of the girls did not feel confident in front of the boys, they were down about their body image. It was not something we would ever wear outside school, so why in it?' Instead the girls can now wear black three-quarter-length tracksuit bottoms or shorts with thick blue T-shirts and hoodies with pink writing. 'There has been a massive change,' Rebecca said. 'The girls who are overweight or underweight have taken to the new uniform because it hides their body and they feel more confident.'

  Dumfries and Galloway Council 25 Year Long Service Certificates presented on Station during 2011/13: Anthony Bastow Watch Manager, Moffat; Stuart McLellan, Firefighter, Dumfries Station; Stephen Wixon, Station Manager currently at Fire Service College, Moreton; Ian Campbell, Watch Manager, Annandale & Eskdale District; James Waugh, Group Manager, Headquarters; James Crane, Watch Manager, Headquarters; Neil Erskine, Area Manager, Headquarters; George Park, Firefighter, Sanquhar Retained Station; Brian McCulloch, Firefighter, Dumfries Station; Ian Nicholson, Firefighter, Dumfries Station; Barbara Johnstone, Watch Manager, Fire Control.

Dame Kelly Holmes, 35, won two gold medals for Great Britain at the 2004 Olympics, in the 800m and 1,500m. She is working with Norwich Union on the On Camp With Kelly initiative, through which she will nurture and support future female Olympians and their coaches. They find it boring, their parents are too protective of them going out to clubs, and some are embarrassed by boys. Girls are worried about body image and what they look like getting changed in the changing rooms with their friends. A lot of it is peer pressure: a girl's friends don't play sport, so she won't. But she could have a talent. So much talent is being missed because girls are following the normal trends: watching telly, going out and shopping. Kelly Holmes: 'Sport makes you feel and look better'

[[Dame KELLY HOLMES] had suffered a host of injuries throughout her career, ruining her chances of competing in numerous major championships.] I was a wreck for two months. I locked myself in the bathroom and turned on the taps so no one could hear me crying. I picked up a pair of scissors and cut my left arm one cut for every day that I had been injured. I was on Parkinson with Tom Cruise. Such a nice guy! I'd been literally travelling the world and I'd hardly slept in weeks. I was lying on the sofa back at my mum's in Kent and she answered the phone and it was Tom inviting me to his film premiere. But I had nothing to wear, I couldn't face climbing in a car and going to London. So I said no. People ask how I keep my feet on the ground, but I honestly don't think I've had my head turned. I joke to the family that they must call me Dame Kelly but they just take the mick. I first spoke to Mum on the radio after winning in Athens. All she could do was scream. She knows almost better than anyone what those victories meant to me.