Tearaway teenager Sami Anker, who terrorised classmates and was excluded from two city schools, has put her past behind her to reveal a natural talent for looking after old people.
Sami, of Manton, South Bretton, Peterborough, was notoriously known as a trouble-maker, smashing windows, throwing chairs, swearing and was expelled from two city schools.
She has since spent a year at the Learning Education and Achievement Partnership (LEAP), a pupil referral unit in Vicarage Farm Road, Eastern Industry.
And now, after helping to put a smile on more than 60 elderly people's faces, the reformed 15-year-old is now in with a chance of winning £2,000 after being nominated for the Stagecoach Young People of the Year Award.
Related: Sami makes LEAP from excluded to exalted, 14 July 2008The full article contains 137 words and appears in Peterborough ET newspaper.
