Pictured above: Sid Sloane handprinting with Pulse's Jacqui Thompson

Entrepreneur Jacqui Thompson "copped" a star presenter's handprint when he paid a surprise visit to her stand at a family event. 

Jacqui, from Cranwell, was bowled over when CBeebies' favourite Sid Sloan and his son were irresistibly drawn to join other youngsters and their parents to try out finger-printing and other crime-cracking techniques, at Peterborough's Popblast Festival4Children.

Jacqui owns PULSE Education & Business Services, which runs exciting forensics workshops in schools across Lincolnshire and beyond its borders and versions which are also tailored for corporate team-building days. 

Visitors to the Festival were able to find out about these and also hear how Jacqui boosts her work within schools by offering teachers the option of showing a CEOP Government video, which highlights the sorts of dangers youngsters face by unwittingly visiting some websites and Internet chatrooms.

"It was fantastic when Sid came over to my stand. Apparently, his son really loved it and Sid was just as enthusiastic and, after having a go at a handprinting exercise, he went of waving one of my keyrings!," said Jacqui.

"I am really passionate about bringing science alive for young people and keen to show that it is anything but a dry subject," added Jacqui, who is  married to a qualified Scenes of Crime Officer (SOCO) and Computer Forensics expert."

Jacqui, who had been invited by organisers to go along to the two-day event at Activity World, said it featured a wide range of safe, fun and educational activities, including street dancing, shelter building and the chance to try a surf board simulator. 

For more information about Pulse, please visit their website here: www.fingeronthepulse.biz