YOUNGSTERS will be watching their very own millennium trees grow with them during the countdown to the new century.

Pupils of Country Fields Nursery, Ramsgreave, planted two millennium trees in the nursery grounds as part of their lessons on the environment, nature, science and the millennium.

In the coming months the children who planted the trees will be helping to care for them and learning about how they grow.

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