Tidy-minded pupils in Bingley are rolling up their sleeves to keep the streets around their school litter-free.

Youngsters at Trinity All Saints Church of England School are cleaning up after their head teacher responded to the Telegraph & Argus Bin It for Bradford campaign.

The campaign, launched to encourage communities to clean-up the district, asked readers to organise litter-picking missions across the city.

And headteacher Ellen Woodthorpe decided to put her young pupils to the test, ordering bin bags, rubber gloves and litter-picking sticks through the T&A to help blitz the area surrounding her school.

"From a citizenship point of view it is very good for our children to be putting something back into the community," said Mrs Woodthorpe.

Youngsters from all years at the school on Church Street will get the chance to put their litter-picking skills to the test as groups of eight set out before school and at lunchtime to clean-up the area.

Mrs Woodthorpe said: "They generally clean the school playing field and the streets surrounding the school. But there is some wasteland off John Escritt Road which I think we will try to tackle next."

And Mrs Woodthorpe said the pupils were more than happy to help "They really enjoy going out litter-picking because they are occupied in something constructive and I feel our neighbours will be very pleased to see our pupils giving something back to the environment."

Councillor David Heseltine (Cons, Bingley) commended the pupils' efforts. He said: "Too often young people are blamed for creating litter when it is not always down to them.