ACCRINGTON and Rossendale College has celebrated the work of its apprentices with its annual awards ceremony.

Winners were honoured across three categories of apprentices, advanced, intermediate and home grown, with 23 people in total collecting a prize.

Top employers were also given praise at the event and Lancashire County Council was awarded the Employer of the Year 2017.

A college spokesman said: “The awards give us and the wider local community the opportunity to see just how much our apprentices are achieving on their programmes, and to reward them for their success.”

The awards were hosted at the college's Roots restaurant.