TEES Valley Housing Group has announced the winners of its Young Persons' Achievement Awards for 2004.

First prize went to Sara Mirsalehi, 23, from Middlesbrough, for her educational achievements and her voluntary work.

Rachael Brown, 18, from Darlington, came second. Runners-up were 20-year-old Daniel Cowans, from Loftus, near Redcar, east Cleveland, and Ashley Doran, 18, from Middlesbrough