Young pianist Evie Kitching returned from a music festival with a handful of glittering prizes.

The youngster, of Wrose, Shipley, won six first places, two second places and a commended prize for playing piano solos at the Robertshaw Festival held at Beckfoot School, Bingley.

Evie, nine, who is a pupil at Low Ash Primary School in Wrose, has also competed in the Mrs Sunderland Festival in Huddersfield and the Harrogate Festival.

She attends piano lessons with Maureen O’Hara in Keighley.