AROUND-THE-CLOCK teenage technology wizard Craig Rodway is representing the North-East in a national Internet challenge.
Craig, 16, from Coundon, has turned his computer hobby into a career, staying on after GCSEs at Bishop Barrington to work as an information and communications technology technician.
He won the youth category award in the regional finals of the Broadband Britain Challenge, sponsored by BT, and will now take part in the national finals in London next month.
Judges said he had "exceptional talent, making innovative use of the new fast Internet technology Broadband by hosting his own personal website and keeping in touch with friends overseas".
At home he has linked three computers so his mother Carol and four-year-old brother Carl can go online.
The award in the Broadband Britain Challenge is Craig's second information technology success.
When he was seven he won a laptop computer for Coundon Primary School.
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