MSP visits the young stars of award winning Lanarkshire Dance Academy

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An MSP has visited the young stars of an award winning Lanarkshire Dance Academy. Labour Central Scotland list MSP Monica Lennon was welcomed to Karen Bordon Dance Academy in Burnbank to celebrate their achievement of being awarded Hamilton Sports Council’s ‘Club of the Year’.

Monica met the young dancers, was treated to a VIP performance and presented pupils and teaching staff with the framed parliamentary motion she lodged earlier this month to mark their achievements.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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I look forward to seeing what the academy will achieve next.”The parliamentary motion recognises that this was the first time that a dance academy had won the sports council’s club year.It also commends Team KBDA on also achieving 16 Scottish Championship titles at the WLDF World Championships.It concludes: “The motion believes that these achievements are due to the extraordinary efforts of the teaching staff, dedicated pupils and all the parents and carers who give so much time to the