A VILLAGE school has won an award and £300 in the Guidance Enterprises Group's competition for recycling waste.

"We are absolutely delighted," said headteacher Rachel Wells, of West Heslerton Primary School, near Scarborough. "The children themselves will decide how the money should be spent through the school." The school has saved cash through recycling, which has been spent on providing extra facilities. It was one of only five primary schools in North and West Yorkshire and York to be shortlisted for an award from the environmental group.

BUS STRIKE: Bus drivers in York will start voting on strike action next week. It follows the breakdown of talks over pay with local bus company First. The postal ballot will take place over two weeks. Drivers have rejected a pay offer totalling six per cent. They want £8 an hour, or a rise in some cases of 16.25 per cent.

ROAD CLOSURE: Motorists in Great Ayton are warned of a temporary closure of a short section of Roseberry Avenue, near its Northern Junction with Roseberry Crescent, due to sewer repairs. Work is due to start on Monday and could take five days. Pedestrians will have access and traffic will be diverted.

FARM RAID: Thieves broke into a farm outbuilding at Salton, near Malton, and stole a yellow Suzuki quad-bike, a Hayter petrol mower, a Stihl chainsaw and a yellow air compressor.

PLANE LATE: A giant C17 Globemaster aircraft that had been expected to arrive at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York, today, is now expected to arrive tomorrow. It will return exhibits loaned by the museum to the recent Royal International Air Tattoo.

GARDEN HAUL: Police who seized a haul of stolen garden furniture in a raid in a house in York will put it on show at the Fulford Road police station between 5pm and 7pm tonight.