YOUNGSTERS from Leeming Community Primary School have been learning how to resist the lure of drugs.

A total of 28 pupils have celebrated the completion of a 16-week programme known as Dare (Drugs Abuse Resistance Education.)

Each youngster attended one session per week on the course, which is run by police in several British counties and is also used extensively in the United States.

Their headteacher Lesley Heaton and PC Sean Godrey, of the Ministry of Defence Police, at Catterick, joined them when they were presented with certificates by the head of Bedale High School, Dr John Critchlow.

The youngsters enjoyed a cake, which had been made by Val Fielding, whose husband Dave is a sergeant with 609 (West Riding) Royal Auxiliary Air Force Squadron, at RAF Leeming.