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Evening Standard
Aine Fox

Scot, 12, named on Time’s first Girls of the Year list after homelessness design

A UK pupil who designed a solar-powered backpack with an electric blanket inside to help homeless people has been named on the first-ever Time magazine Girls of the Year list.

Rebecca Young, from Glasgow, was aged just 11 when she came up with the idea after becoming concerned about people sleeping on the streets during a freezing Scottish winter.

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