OUR competition inviting young photographers to send pictures depicting "Our Lancashire Home" has produced a crop of winners.

The project was part of our year long support of the National Year of Reading and was inspired by one of the monthly themes of "reading without words."

Winners in the secondary section are all from Darwen Moorland High School with the first prize of a camera donated by photographer Jack Barry going to Stephen Clough, Year 9.

Luke Sutton, Year 9 and Penny Barnes, Year 7, are runners up, winning books. In the junior group, the winner is Matthew Ragnall, aged 10, of St Antony's RCP, Blackburn, who will also receive books. Well done to all of them.

The winning pictures, along with winners of our "In the News" poetry competition and "Holidays at Home" report writing assignment will be published in NIE pages during the summer.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.