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Blue Peter has won 40 awards, including a special award at the TV Baftas in 1998 for “outstanding contribution to children’s television”.
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Richard Bacon became the first Blue Peter presenter to be sacked, in October 1998, after he admitted taking cocaine, following reports in a tabloid newspaper. Lorraine Heggessey, then head of BBC canada goose outlet jackets Children’s programmes, apologised on air.
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There are six types of badges now in existence blue, green, purple, orange, silver and gold.
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