WINNERS of a Christmas card competition aimed at highlighting crimes at schools over the holiday period have been announced.

Children in Langbaurgh were asked by Cleveland Police to come up with a design that would encourage the community to look out for trespassers, vandals and burglars around empty school buildings.

Hundreds of designs were submitted, and six will be turned into Christmas cards and delivered to homes within the local community.

The winners were eight-year-old Chelsea Abbott, of Grangetown Primary School, Amy Hierons, of St Gabriel's School, Ormesby, Natalie Richmond, of Northgate Junior School, Guisborough, Natalie Smith, of Dormanstown Primary School, Joshua Overfield, of Kiltonthorpe School, Brotton, and Vicky Fletcher, of St Peter's School, Brotton. The headteacher of Grangetown Primary School, Carl Faulkner, said: "The school was really pleased to take part in the competition, and we thought it was a good way to let the local community know that we need help to protect the school.

"We were delighted with the idea the children came up with, but Chelsea's card design was joyous and reflected exactly what we are trying to do."