Fifteen-year-old Matthew Earl shows he has a way with words as he gets to grips with Scrabble on the Internet as part of a school initiative.
Pupils from Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne are challenging schools across the country in a Scrabble Internet League.
The team of enthusiasts at the Eastbourne school have already won two scrabble boards and a CD-Rom in other competitions.
They will now be battling it out on the Internet in the library after school hours in a bid to spread their word power far and wide.
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