A WILDLIFE garden at a Thornaby school has received a community grant.

The £200 award from the North-Eastern Co-op's community dividend fund has enabled St Patrick's RC Comprehensive School to buy four outdoor benches for the garden.

As well as being used as an educational resource by the school's 550 pupils, the garden is open to community groups.

Kathleen Warrick, secretary of the parents, teachers and friends association said: "We are in a built-up area and there are not many facilities where people can enjoy the natural environment.

"The benches will enable people in the community to enjoy, and relax in, the wildlife garden."