PUPILS, parents and teachers have munched through a mountain of crisps to provide their school with £1,000 worth of books.

It took King Street Primary School, Spennymoor, County Durham, three months to save more than 44,000 tokens from crisps and newspapers to buy a collection of books for the school.

Headteacher John Blaylock said this was 1,000 more tokens than they saved last year.

He said: "Friends of the school, children's relatives, pupils, parents and teachers have been cutting the tokens out of papers and crisp packets. We had lots of dedicated children counting the tokens out one by one. Some of the tokens had to be cut out as well, so it was quite a big task.

"I suspect everyone is sick of crisps now."

Pictured with their pile of books are, from left, Daniel Spiers, seven, Lewis Aston, six, Rebecca Sokell, eight, Katie Robinson, ten, and Haley Jones, nine.