Pupils from Barnard Castle Preparatory School have raised £228.39 for Teesdale and Weardale Search and Rescue Team when they set up a cake stall at break-time.

The event was to repay the rescue team which visited the school earlier this year.

Meg, a border collie trained to work with the team, demonstrated her search techniques by finding headteacher Ted Haslam in the school grounds.

Reception class teacher Penny Honess, said: "The children have worked really hard helping us organise the event and parents have been wonderfully supportive too."

Mr Haslam said: "Break times at school are always popular, but the feast that was on offer made this one especially memorable."