She was, at the age of 17, the youngest student granted a place at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
In a faint echo of the Laura Spence affair, John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, is determinedly fighting the corner of a state school pupil with good grades who wasn't granted a place.
The perpetrators should know that they are extremely lucky to have been granted a place at one of the country's top universities, and references such as these are a complete abuse of their privileged position".
They argue that the human embryo is just too small, too unlike us in appearance, or too lacking in consciousness or sensitivity to pain or other critical mental capacity to be granted a place in the human family.
Eventually he was granted a place in the pantheon, and on one of his last appearances in London, at the Barbican in 2005, he seemed moved by the sheer warmth of the sustained applause with which a full house greeted every piece.
Sussex took part in the inaugural competition in 2009 and will be granted a place in the qualifying stages if they reach the final on Saturday.
It's a full day since Judy Murray told me at the end of my first-round match at Wimbledon that I had been granted a place to play at the Olympics as part of Team GB.
A similar situation occurred with the England Women's team who, by virtue of being one of the top three European sides at the 2007 World Cup, would have been granted a place at the Olympics.
After Zaragoza's triumph in the Copa del Rey, they were granted a place in the 2004 05 UEFA Cup; this was Villa's first time playing in a European competition.
Had they not won the trophy, they would still have been qualified for European competition, as City's victory in the 1970 League Cup granted a place in the Fairs Cup.
