A YOUNG martial artist who has been training for just a few weeks wowed the audience at a tae kwon mudo contest in Darlington.

Little Connor Bacon, six, competed with 40 other students in the under-tens flying side kick category at the event at the Kim Chung Do gym, in Gladstone Street.

Competition organiser Katey Wallace said: "He is a little star - he left the crowd stunned with his high kicking.

"Connor was easily the smallest and youngest competitor in the competition but he showed no nerves against the older children and cleared a bar which was 65cm high."

The Harrowgate Hill Infant School pupil is hoping to follow in the footsteps of his brother Travis, 11, who came away from the contest with two gold medals, a silver and overall team trophy.

Gold medallists were: Robbie Bates, Jamie Walker, Travis Bacon, Katey Wallace, Kyle Smith, Stephanie Pyburn, James Thorpe, Adrian Winter and Tom Smith, all from Darlington; Ashley Gibson, Adam Peel, Lee Sampson, James Carr, Alan and Nikki Beresford and Tom Harris, from Eastbourne and Kimberley Hall and Hannah Robinson, from Bishop Auckland.

Team winners were White Tigers and the Street Cats, from Bishop Auckland; Weird Aliens, from Weardale and the Good Guys, from Darlington.