MILLENNIUM babies who were registered with a Hyndburn environmental group will be brought together to open a wood planted in their honour.

The £21,800 Millennium Baby Woodland Project was created to celebrate the birth of babies born in the borough in 2000 and will be officially opened next month.

More than 300 babies were registered with the Prospects Foundation who planted one tree for every child at the site in Burnley Road, Altham.

The trees - including oak, birch, hazel, ash and hawthorn - were planted last year and volunteers have installed picnic tables, a kissing gate, an easy access ramp, a footpath around the site and a display board giving details of the trees and wildlife in the wood and the names of the babies registered.

Organisers would like the youngsters to be guests of honour at the opening ceremony at 10.30am on Saturday, December 6, and are urging parents of the registered children to contact them.

Funding for the project came from the Government's New Opportunities Fund, BT's People's Places, Cheshire Building Society, Lancashire Environmental Fund, the Forestry Commission's Woodlands Grants scheme and East Lancashire Woodland.

The opening will coincide with the start of national tree week and there will be an action day, from 10am to 2pm, on Sunday, December 7, when people can plant trees and carry out maintenance work.

If your child was registered and you would like them to be there at the opening ceremony, call Catherine Ackroyd at the Prospects Foundation on 01254 380675.