FAMOUS and not so famous Bradford faces are featured on a fence round a Bradford park designed by a pupils to inspire a community.

Arty students at Carr Wood Primary School in Holme Wood and Tong School have spent ten months working on the project with Haworth-based sculptor Craig Dyson.

Today they gathered in Knowles Park, along with other community groups who got involved and had a say in the design, to celebrate the completion of scheme.

One of the famous faces depicted on the fence is former Tong School pupil and One Direction idol Zayn Malik - seeing he could not be there in person to cut the ribbon, a paper-masked stand-in for the young star did the honours instead.

Bradford-born artist David Hockney, philanthropist Titus Salt, singer Gareth Gates, Noble-prize winning scientist Edward Victor Appleton are among the other famous faces while the not so famous - just yet - faces included youngsters themselves at Carr Wood Primary.

One of them was 11-year-old Sean Ratcliffe, who said: "It's been awesome, really cool working with Craig. It's been fun. I think it's wow to have my face on it."

Tong School teacher Alison Cairess said: "It's been a fantastic project.

"We've got two of our former pupils on the fence who've gone on to make it big.

"Zayn and Sean Thomas, who was in The Selfish Giant film about travellers. It's inspirational - it reminds people in this area of just what they can go on to achieve. Anything is possible."

Artist Mr Dyson, who used some of his dad's fabrication equipment on the artwork, said: "Everyone across the whole community has worked really well together on this and the community spirit has shone through. It's been a great place to work in."

Each of the individual fence posts are of different heights, symbolising the wide variety of people who make a community happen.

The project was commissioned as part of a regeneration project for Holme Wood and Tong, led by Tracy Uren, Bradford Council's housing development officer.

She said: "It has done what we set out to achieve which was to make this area as the main entrance into Holme Wood and Tong.

"It wanted to stand out in some way and this stands out. It is practical and functional to improve the signage and achieve the objective of making it a key gateway and raise the aspirations of people within the community."

A film documenting the project was also shown at yesterday's celebration and a book capturing the fence's journey from start to finish will now go on the shelves at the local library for everyone to see.

One of the phrases written on the fence is 'Time is Precious Use it Wisely' - words suggested by Sue Grieg, 68, of Hope Church on the estate.

"Hopefully those words will stick with people," she said.