Article: Teenagers have write stuff for River City Quartet's script for soap wins Scottish Screen competition

FOUR Glasgow youngsters proved they have a bright future ahead of them when they wrote a script for River City.

The teenagers won the chance to write for Scotland's favourite soap after beating hundreds of hopefuls to win a Scottish Screen competition.

Mhari McNeil, 15, Chloe Brolly, 15, Andrew Simpson, 14, and Calum McLenachan, 13, won a place on the weeklong Writing for Soap workshop when their short-film screenplay ideas reached the final of the First Writes competition run by BBC Scotland.

River City writers Marc Pye and James McIntyre hosted the workshop, which was attended by seven other youngsters from around Scotland.

The Glasgow ...

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