Film spurs pupils into environmental action

About 300 school pupils have taken part in a two- week campaign to save the environment.

Year Seven and Eight pupils – aged 11 to 13 – from Brooke Weston City Technology College, led by their English teacher Alex Cooper, wrote letters to Gordon Brown and local MP Phil Hollobone, produced newspapers and wrote articles about the need to save the local and global environment.

Mr Cooper said the children were deeply affected after watching Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth

He said: "We watched the film and they were genuinely shocked, some of them were questioning what the future will be like and it spurred them on to do something about it.