The mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence is helping to launch a new centre for research into race and education.

BBC: Doreen Lawrence launches race education centre

In particular, a long-term CD can be a good choice when you want to give a teenager the option of using the money on something other than education, yet you want to discourage them from spending it right away.

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The teenager, from Desborough, Northamptonshire, who studied at Tresham College of Further and Higher Education, has picked up two C grades in business and history A-levels, an A in psychology AS level, and a C in sociology AS level.

BBC: George Shopland