A year in the life of a York university student is to feature as part of a Channel 4 documentary.

Claire Hazelgrove, a second-year politics student at the University of York is running for Parliament, having been selected as Labour's candidate in Skipton and Ripon.

Now Claire, 19, is one of 15 young people taking part in the documentary YearDot.

The documentary will be shown as a series of programmes on Channel 4 and will follow its 16 to 21-year-old subjects for a year, filming them once every three weeks. It will be broadcast later this year.

Claire said: "It's very interesting to be part of it and I was very pleased they approached me to be in it.

"The film cameras come every three weeks or so and have already been to York. They have filmed me with my housemates, and at the university, they even came to one seminar with me.

"I've got a camera too so I can film what I want, and my friends can get involved and take films of me too. It's all pretty strange and new, but I think it is a great thing to be involved in.

"I'm really driven and I really want to be a politician, but for the right things, because I've wanted to do something which matters.

"I'm hoping that maybe viewers will see I'm a normal person as well a politician, in that being a student there are times I am seen walking around in broken shoes and I'm always hard-up.

"I'd like people to see that politics isn't exclusive and elitist which is sometimes how it is viewed.

"I had a phone call asking me whether I would be interested in applying for the documentary.

"It's quite a confidence-boost to be asked to apply, as opposed to all the hundreds who applied off their own back.

"One of the others is competing in the Eurovision song contest."

Steve Maud, YearDot's producer, said the programme was "about the time of your life that you get it together."

He said: "The idea is to inspire kids to see examples of people their own age that are doing something with their lives. It was originally called Get a Life."

YearDot is produced by Graham Norton's company, So Television.

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