THE cheery voice on the Saturday morning radio show sounds younger than the usual DJ.

But one thing is obvious; whoever it is, she likes her music and knows how to sound good on the radio.

It isn't until you continue to listen that you realise that the DJ on the Sunny Govan station is all of 11 years old.

Station helps Polish community hit the airwaves SCOTLAND'S Polish community now has a voice of its own - thanks to Sunny Govan. The station's Polish show is broadcast each Tuesday night between 10pm and midnight. Project manager Heather McMillan said: "It started because we're very pro-active in encouraging all members of the community. "We recognised that Glasgow has changed a wee bit, culturally, and the show reflects that. "We made contact with a local Polish community, and one of our volunteer presenters, John MacDonald, nurtured what they were doing in terms of their show. "The guys do a great show and we're proud to have them on our schedule. We've asked them to teach us a few words of Polish." Another show, on Monday night, is presented by Emma Clifford, one of the girls at Drumchapel High School who became known as the Glasgow Girls for their tireless campaigning for the rights of young asylum seekers. "The girls stopped the dawn raids in Scotstoun, and now she has Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on once a month, answering questions from people on the street." Also on Sunny Govan's schedule are an African show, with Chico and Ishhmel. "We're trying to make Monday night an international night so that we can reach out to people from different communities, including the asylum/refugee community." Yet another show, the Friday Night Posse, is hosted by young people from different gangs. APART from Sunny Govan, two west of Scotland groups triumphed in the Local Heroes awards. The winner of the Health and Wellbeing category was a Kilmarnock-based football team, Mixes and Matches, which is for people with disabilities. The Breaking Down Barriers category was won by Saltire Strikers, a group of blind or visually impaired 10-pin bowlers, based at Springfield Quay in Glasgow's South Side. They all received a cheque for £3000, plus an engraved glass trophy and a certificate. Editor Donald Martin praised our sponsors BAE Systems, Warburtons, Glasgow City Council, North Lanarkshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council and East Ayrshire Council. "We couldn't have done it without them," said Mr Martin. "The awards attracted a record number of nominees this year, and the gala lunch was a tremendous success."

Caprice Muirhead is one of the stars of the community station's Saturday morning Kids Club show.

But she's not the youngest - she has a few years on her co-presenters, who include Olivia, Jemma, Elliot and Andrew. Her seven-year-old sister, Anushka, gets in on the act as well.

Elliot, only three, "just comes in and says Bob the Builder'," laughs Heather McMillan, project manager.

The 10-year-old station certainly believes in starting its presenters young.

And the show is just one of the reasons why Sunny Govan won the Community Spirit category in the Evening Times Local Heroes Awards this week.

"What we're doing with the Kids Club is making community radio open to people of all ages," says Heather.

"Young kids have the necessary skills to present a radio show - they're very computer literate, more than some adults.

"They love doing the show. They can come along and play kids' music that you wouldn't normally hear on the radio.

"There's even an artist in the States called Uncle Moondog who sends them quirky wee songs.

"You even get the kids dancing to the songs on the radio - and just a wee split-second before the song finishes, they're back in front of the microphone.

"Watching them is just absolutely priceless.

"There's always someone technical out in the front, like Sandy, one of our guys here - he keeps an eye on them, and he's very fond of them. But because they've got the skills now, they can operate things themselves."

Despite still being at primary school in Dalmarnock, Caprice is something of a veteran.

At music festivals in the Highlands, she has twice introduced the London band Alabama 3 - the group behind the Sopranos' theme song - on to stage.

"The crowd went mad," Caprice notes on her website.

And it doesn't come as much of a surprise when she says she would like to continue being a DJ when she's older.

Caprice, whose hobbies include dancing, ice skating, ice hockey, going to music festivals and basketball, relishes being on the show.

"It's a kids' show and it's really popular," she says.

"We've got lots of friends on MySpace from places like America and Canada who send us lots of CDs and we love that.

"It's really a lot of fun - we get to sing and dance and things like that.

"We also get lots of texts from adults as well as children."

The show had already been running when Caprice got involved. "My uncle was listening to the show one Saturday and I was going to the swimming when I heard a young boy called Max presenting it.

"I thought, yeah, I'd like to get involved in that, because it seemed like a really nice idea.

"I've been doing it for a year now and I love it.

"I started doing it with one of the guys on the station, Uncle Bob Rafferty, and he helped me with my confidence.

"Now I can operate all the equipment by myself, including the faders and the CDs.

"I was really nervous at first because I didn't know what to do, but I thought, I can do this - my gran's counting on me'.

"My gran listens in every Saturday. She wants me to stay with Sunny Govan because it's a great community station.

"My friends are going to come down one day and try it out for themselves.

"If any kid wants to try, they can just come in and ask.

"A lot of them are quite nervous but we put them at ease by asking them things like their age, what school they go to, what their hobbies are."

Caprice's taste in music stretches from rave and hip-hop to cha-cha, salsa, jazz and rock.

Even at the Local Heroes gala lunch, she effortlessly showed off her pop knowledge.

Before the awards began, host and DJ Heather Suttie broke the ice with a fun contest, asking the 250-strong audience to guess whether selected songs reached number one or two in the charts.

Despite facing competition from dozens of adults and the fact that many of the songs were hits years before Caprice was even born - she still won.

Heather added: "Caprice is one of the stars of the future. She really knows her music and she's a real pro in the studio."

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