Urmston Grammar School is celebrating after winning the secondary school front garden competition at the RHS Flower Show at Tatton.

This is the first time the school ha entered the show and the theme for the garden was The Bridgewater Canal as part of the country's industrial heritage.

It includes a lock keepers cottage garden and vegetable garden, a tow path, a blue lobelia canal, the hull of a barge, a bridge and two aqueducts. About 30 pupils aged from 11 years old to 14 years old helped to produce and plant what turned into a floral triumph.

They worked every week from February until the very last day of the show, on July 26.

Bernadette Motiwala, a teacher at UCS said: "We are very very proud of this outstanding achievement by a group of very creative and hardworking pupils."